【41 The Plain Man and His Wife 平凡人和他的妻子】
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The plain man on a plain day wakes up, slowly or quickly according to his temperament, and greets the day in a mental posture which might be thus expressed in words: “Oh, Lord! Another day! What a grind!”
平凡人在平凡的一天醒來，他動作的快慢取決於他那天的心情如何。他迎接這一天的內心想法要是用文字來表述就是：“天哪！又是一天！太遭罪了！”
If you ask me whom I mean by the plain man, my reply is that I mean almost every man. I mean you. I certainly mean me. I mean the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful, the idle and the diligent, the luxurious and the austere. For, what with the limits of digestion, the practical impossibility of wearing two neckties at once, the insecurity of investments, the responsibilities of wealth and success, the exhaustingness of the search for pleasure, and the cheapness of travel—the real differences between one sort of plain man and another are slight in these times.（And indeed they always were slight.）
如果你問我這個平凡人指誰，我的回答是：每個人，包括你，當然也包括我；包括窮人，也包括富人；包括成功人士，也包括非成功人士；包括懶散的人，也包括勤奮的人；包括奢侈的人，也包括節儉的人。由於每個人的消化能力有限，同時佩戴兩條領帶不現實；投資有風險；成功和富有意味著責任；尋樂終究會精疲力竭；旅行很廉價——現如今，一種平凡人與另一種平凡人的實際差距很小。（其實，一直以來都挺小的。）
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