The British fondness for queueing is well-documented. Less well-known is our reaction to queue-jumping – particularly by foreigners. It is a mixture of smugness that we’re doing the right thing and yearning to be able to bend the rules ourselves from time to time. It is exactly the mixed emotion that greets every case of an international competitor winning a British contract or bidding for a British company.
英國人喜歡排隊，這是世人皆知的。但我們對插隊者（特別是外國插隊者）會作何反應，就沒有多少人知道了。那是一種復雜的心情：一方面因為自己行為得當而自鳴得意，另一方面渴望自己偶爾也能違規一下。每一次海外競爭者在英國贏得合同或出價收購某家英國公司，都會帶來跟這一模一樣的復雜心情。
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