Watching the US budget crisis unfold, I was reminded of a famous passage in The Great Gatsby. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, “they smashed up things, and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together.”
目睹美国正在上演的预算危机，让我想起了《了不起的盖茨比》(The Great Gatsby)一书中的一个著名段落。“汤姆和黛西，他们是粗心大意的人，”F•斯科特•菲茨杰拉德(F. Scott Fitzgerald)写道，“他们砸碎了东西，毁灭了人，然后就退缩到自己的金钱或者麻木不仁或者不管什么使他们留在一起的东西之中，让别人去收拾他们的烂摊子……”
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