Outsiders often bounce off Paris’s surface — something I experienced when I was a foreign correspondent there a decade ago. The social networks built up by the French at school can persist at university and carry through to work, creating an impenetrable knot for newcomers. At least that was my excuse for the woeful lack of dinner party invitations I received when I was living there; I’m sure Parisians had their own reasons — ones that were perhaps less consoling to my eggshell ego.
当外来者想融入巴黎时，往往会无从着手——这是10年前我担任驻巴黎记者时体会到的。法国人在学校建立的人脉网可能维持至大学，然后带入职场，对新来者构成难以克服的屏障。至少这是我在巴黎生活期间极少收到晚宴邀请的借口；我肯定巴黎人有自己的理由——或许难以抚慰我的蛋壳般的虚荣心。
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