不时地将朋友派往词典是生活中最复杂的乐趣之一,但这是一个必须少量放纵的人:经常这样做可能会导致指控吞噬自己的词典,这是这不是一种赞美,无论哪种方式看着它。
(To dispatch one's friends to a dictionary from time to time is one of the more sophisticated pleasures of life, but it is one that must be indulged in sparingly: to do it too often may result in accusations of having swallowed one's own dictionary, which is not a compliment, whichever way one looks at it.)