Watching the US budget crisis unfold, I was reminded of a famous passage in The Great Gatsby. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, “they smashed up things, and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together.”
目睹美國正在上演的預算危機,讓我想起了《了不起的蓋茨比》(The Great Gatsby)一書中的一個著名段落。“湯姆和黛西,他們是粗心大意的人,”F?斯科特?菲茨杰拉德(F. Scott Fitzgerald)寫道,“他們砸碎了東西,毀滅了人,然后就退縮到自己的金錢或者麻木不仁或者不管什么使他們留在一起的東西之中,讓別人去收拾他們的爛攤子……”
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