摘自政治评论家大卫·布鲁克斯（David Brooks）的《天堂里的波波族》（Bobos in Paradise）:
The bourgeois floated on a swell of affluence, so the student leaders rejected materialism. The bourgeois admired politeness, elegance, and decorum, so the student leaders were raw. The bourgeois were neat, so the student leaders were haphazard. The bourgeois had short hair, so the student leaders had long hair. The bourgois were technological, so the student leaders were natural. The bourgeois were career-oriented, so the student leaders were experience-oriented. The bourgeois pretended to be chaste, so the student leaders pretended to be promiscuous. The bourgeois practiced conspicuous consumption, so the students practiced conspicuous nonconsumption. The bourgeois celebrated work, so the students celebrated pleasure. T... (查看原文)
下面这一段中这个短语被作者玛格丽特·阿特伍德（Margaret Atwood）赋予了罕见的形而上学意味，《奥克西和克雷克》（Oryx and Crake）：
When did the body first set out on its own adventures?... It must have got tired of the soul's constant nagging and whining and the anxiety-driven intellectual web-spinning of the mind, distracting it whenever it was getting its teeth into something juicy or its fingers into something good. It had dumped the other two [soul and mind]... while it made a beeline for the topless bars, and it had dumped culture along with them: music and painting and poetry and plays. Sublimation, all of it; nothing but sublimation... Why not cut to the chase? (查看原文)
0 有用 陌上。行走 2011-11-19 22:45:09
内容比较深呢~~~
0 有用 #瞬间收藏家# 2020-06-16 12:32:40
2016-09-18 想读 | 让人后悔买实体书的草纸印刷，作者标着中文名字、美国国籍、三个中国人翻译，行文一股翻译腔、把Queen's English翻译成“王后的英语”。词条不标新旧、常用否，剪刀浆糊语料库，不看也罢。
0 有用 T酱 2010-10-31 18:24:08
在地铁上读很矫情=||||||=但是掉书袋趣味多多！
0 有用 积莫凛 2016-07-17 10:14:28
What do you read, my lord？ Words, words, words. 我最想达到的英文学习状态无非作者这种。要有多少积淀才能写出这样的「词语书」？作为一个原著迷，受到了「拿起书读下去」的鼓励与诱惑：）
0 有用 七月的孩子 2012-04-10 18:23:12
anecdotes~