President George W Bush was once believed to have said that the French lack a word for “entrepreneur”. What a pity this is a myth, for in one anecdote it skewered two typically Anglo-Saxon shortcomings — a refusal to master any tongue beyond English, and unthinking infatuation with entrepreneurship.
人们一度以为美国总统小布什(George W Bush)曾说过法语里没有“entrepreneur”(英语里的意思为企业家,实际上这个词就借自法语——译者注)这个词。真遗憾,这纯属虚构。之所以说遗憾,是因为它成功地以一段逸闻把盎格鲁-撒克逊人的两个典型缺点串起来表现了出来。这两个缺点是不愿掌握英语以外的任何语言,以及盲目崇拜企业家精神。
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