他坚信银行存款必须极其富裕。
弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫《我的父亲莱斯利·斯蒂芬》:
And not all his mathematics together with a bank balance which he insisted must be ample in the extreme could persuade him, when it came to signing a check, that the whole family was not "shooting Niagara to ruin,"as he put it. The pictures that he would draw of old age and the bankruptcy court, of ruined men of lettersso who have to support large families in small houses at Wimbledon (he owned a very small house at Wimbledon), might have convinced those who complain of his understatements that hyperbole was well within his reach had
he chosen.
而每当他签一张支票的时候,他的全部数学头脑加上银行存款一 他坚信银行存款必须极其富裕—也无法使他相信他全家不致遭灭顶之灾—如他所说,等于驾条小船去尼阿加拉大瀑布。他惯常给家里人描绘这样的图画:老年人在法庭上宣告破产;潦倒的文人要养活一大家子,挤在温伯顿的小屋子里(父亲在温伯顿有一所很小的房子)。这足以使那些埋怨他说话爱含蓄的人相信,倘若他愿意的话,要夸张也是毫不费事的。
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