205 A Real Winner 真正的贏(yíng)家
One resident of our retirement center loved to talk politics. Following the election, I asked him if he'd picked a winner. “Well,” he casually replied, “the man I voted for lost.” “You seem pretty calm about it,” I said. “That's because the man I bet on won.”
我們退休中心的一名住客喜歡談?wù)撜巍M镀钡牡诙?,我?wèn)他選的人是不是勝了。他漫不經(jīng)心地回答:“我投票選的人敗了。”我說(shuō):“你看來(lái)挺心平氣和的。”他說(shuō):“那是因?yàn)槲掖蛸€的那個(gè)人勝了。”