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夜未央 发表于 2010-3-19 20:46:09 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
以前的一个“常飞计划”里程数没用完,航空公司给换成了杂志,可是可供选择的有限,只好挑了些《福布斯》、《经济学人》等杂志。最近一期《福布斯》是亿万富翁专刊,可能是为了避免刺激读者,其Business of Life栏目,作为平衡的手段,专门摘登了一些关于贫困的名言。我将其撕了下来,其余的富豪们被我扔扔进了垃圾桶。不是我装清高,而是我翻了几页,发觉有钱的人都差不多,无非是如何挣得第一桶金最后如何做慈善回报社会之类,或许他们过得潇洒,不过读来乏味。唯独对待贫困,大家态度千奇百怪,有自嘲的,有当笑话的,有求穷若渴的,看一个人怎么对待贫困(包括自己的贫困),怎么对待穷人,是可以看出一个人的素质来的。

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. --WALTER BAGEHOT
(富人眼中的贫困是不正常的,他们无法理解,穷人没晚饭的时候为什么不按铃呢?这和我们的“何不食肉糜”异曲同工。)

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. --W.E.B. DUBOIS
(在W.E.B. Dubois看来,贫困不是个人问题,是种族被压迫的问题(黑人的贫困)。)

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: Permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. --ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (PRAYER)
(这位修士见穷思齐,祈祷进入“高尚的贫困”。)

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money--like everyone else. --V.S. PRITCHETT
(这里说作者见面的时候就谈钱。这真是文化人见面谈钱。商人见面谈文化。)

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous. --JULES RENARD
(作家JULES RENARD说做文人是能保持贫困但又不显得可笑的一个好办法。翻译就是profession of letters之一。)

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. --ERROL FLYNN
(演员FlYNN说他当前的主要矛盾,是大手大脚的习惯和捉襟见肘的收入之间的矛盾,颇有自知之明。)

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards. --HENNY YOUNGMAN
(喜剧演员、乐手Youngman 说他上周做了一整容手术了,将信用卡给整了。原文中的Plastic surgery指美容手术, plastic 是塑料的意思。而信用卡主要部分也是一种塑料制品。)

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill. --JOSEPH O'CONNOR
(作家O'CONNOR 说他就跟一火烈鸟似的,不管转向那边,看到的都是一张嗷嗷待哺的嘴(账单)。火烈鸟的嘴和账单都叫Bill。)


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