I've received an e-mail from a college classmate I last saw cheating in an exam. I asked him to stop and he told me rudely to mind my own business. He was a BMOC (Big Man on Campus) at the time and I was in social Siberia. Now he is a senior partner at a New York law firm (Yale Law School, class of 1968) and is asking me to lunch. He ranks at the top of classmates I hope never to see again and ignoring him seems too kind. Is there a more imaginative response?
我收到一封电子邮件,对方是我一个大学同学,我最后一次见他还得追溯到(几十年前)他那次考试作弊。当时我要求他罢手,他却粗鲁地告诉我少管闲事。他当时可是学校的“大名人”,而我则是个不善社交的无名之辈。如今,这家伙是纽约一家律师事务所的高级合伙人(毕业于耶鲁法学院,1968级),他邀请我共进午餐。在同学中,我最不想见的要数他了,不理睬他都显得我太客气了。不知有没有更富创意的招?