Even more objectionable is what obsessing over Klout scores does to people: it makes them twitchy and stupid. On Twitter, every few seconds someone tweets: “My Klout score has just gone up two points!!!! And then sycophants retweet these dreary messages and the scores rise even further.
更讨厌的是,对Klout分数的高度关注让人变得神经兮兮、愚不可及。在Twitter上,每隔几秒钟就会有人发布这样的消息:“我的Klout刚刚涨了两分!!!!然后,一些好事者又转发这些无聊的消息,让消息原作者的Klout分数进一步升高。
Yet, despite all this, I can’t shrug off my own failure entirely. Never since my fourth-year Latin exam at school have I done quite so badly at anything. But back then I was all defiance; now I find it much harder to laugh off my lack of Klout than I did my stupidity faced with one of the world’s most beautiful and rigorous languages.
不过,尽管如此,我仍然不能做到一点儿都不把这种失败放在心上。自从四年级拉丁文考试以来,我还没有在任何事情上如此失败过。但那时,我的心中惟有不屑——面对世界上最优美、最严谨的一门语言,我对自己的愚钝一笑置之。现在,我无法坦然接受惨不忍睹的Klout分数。
The difference is that Klout, unlike Latin, is not a language of the past. It is a measure of proficiency (even if a crude and flawed one) at a language that almost everyone seems to have learnt how to speak – apart, it seems, from me.
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