雙語故事:Essence of things(事物的本質)

【英文原文】


Essence of things——事物的本質

Wondering why my niece, Charlotte, was returning to college to get a master's in philosophy, I asked, "What can you do with a degree like that?"

"Well," she explained, "it will qualify me to deal with questions like, 'What is existence?' 'What is the essence of things?' and 'Do you want fries with that?' "

【中文譯文】

我想知道爲什麼侄女Charlotte爲什麼要回到學校去修哲學碩士學位，於是問她，“你要這種學位做什麼？”

“呃，”侄女解釋說，“有了這個學位，我就有資格回答象下面的一些問題， ‘什麼是存在’， ‘什麼是事物的本質’，和 ‘要另外來點薯條嗎’ 等等”。