You have never had it so good. Harold Macmillan’s famous observation is usually misremembered. The then UK prime minister’s boast about a booming British economy during the closing years of the 1950s was qualified: “Let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.” Then came the oft-forgotten caveat: “What is beginning to worry some of us is ‘Is it too good to be true?’ Or perhaps I should say, ‘Is it too good to last?’”
你從未有過如此美好的生活。哈羅德?麥克米倫(Harold Macmillan)的著名論斷經常被記錯。這位上世紀50年代末的英國首相夸耀當時的英國經濟繁榮時是有保留的,他說:“坦率地說,我們的大多數人民從未有過如此美好的生活。”但緊接著,還有一句常被遺忘的警告:“開始讓我們中的一些人擔心的是,‘這太美好了,能是真的嗎?’又或者我應該問,‘這太美好了,能持久嗎?’”
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