As Wittels put it: “Oprah, you don’t gotta brag. You’re Oprah.”
正如维特尔斯所说:“奥普拉,用不着自夸。你可是奥普拉啊。”
However, there is another sort of boasting that needs exposing even more than the humblebrag as it is more widespread and more lethal. For want of a snappier name, I’m calling it the thirdpartybrag: when you pass on favourable remarks made about you by someone else.
不过,还有另一种形式的自夸甚至应该比“谦虚的自夸”更需要被揭露,因为这种自夸更普遍且更具杀伤力。因为想不出更俏皮的名字,我就叫它“他夸”好了(thirdpartybrag):即传播别人对你的赞扬。
The rampant popularity of this sort of bragging is for three reasons: it involves minimal queasiness as you don’t have to make the boast yourself; it sounds almost objective; and Twitter makes it a doddle. It is as easy as hitting the retweet button and, far from looking crass, it has the further beauty of seeming almost good manners, as a retweet is a self-serving sort of thank you.
这种自夸方式之所以如此受欢迎,原因有三点:它所引起的反感度最小,因为你不需要自吹自擂;听起来差不多是客观的;Twitter使之实践起来易如反掌。这种自夸做起来十分简单,只要点击“转发”按钮,不仅看起来一点也不愚蠢,而且还几乎显得挺有礼貌,因为转发本身就是一种说“谢谢”的方式。
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