2008-02-15 20:17:32蒼子

Titles

Titles

Titles-another artificiality-are a part of a man’s clothing. They and the dry-goods conceal the wearer’s inferiority and make him seem great and a wonder, when at bottom there is nothing remarkable about him. They can move a nation to fall on its knees and sincerely worship an Emperor who, without the clothes and the title, would drop to the rank of the cobbler and be swallowed up and lost sight of in the massed multitude of the inconsequentials…

-Mark Twain

頭銜

頭銜-這也是一種人為的東西-是衣冠的一部分,頭銜和羅衣掩蓋了一個人的卑微,使他顯得偉大、出眾,而骨子裡,他卻是平庸之輩。頭銜和衣冠能使傾國下跪,去頂禮膜拜一位君主,其實,要不是他那身衣冠和頭銜,他會落到社會的滴下階層,被淹沒並消失在凡夫俗子的人海裡…

-馬克 吐溫