经营餐饮店英语阅读：个性的表达

2021年1月17日发(作者：从不放弃歌词)

美联英语提供：英语阅读：Expressing One's Individuality 个性的表达
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A most curious and useful thing to realize is that one never knows the
impression one is creating on other people. One may often guess pretty accurately
whether it is good, bad, or indifferent - some people render it unnecessary for one
to guess, they practically inform one - but that is not what I mean. I mean much
more than that. I mean that one has one's self no mental picture corresponding to
the mental picture which one's personality leaves in the minds of one's friends. Has
it ever struck you that there is a mysterious individual going around, walking the
streets, calling at houses for tea, chatting, laughing, grumbling, arguing, and that
all your friends know him and have long since added him up and come to a definite
conclusion about him - without saying more than a chance, cautious word to you;
and that that person is you? Supposing that you came into a drawing room where
you were having tea, do you think you would recognize yourself as an individuality?
I think would be apt to say to yourself as guests do when disturbed in
drawing rooms by other guests:
won't be a bore.
you meet yourself in an unsuspected mirror in the very clothes that you have put
on that very day and that you know by heart, you are almost always shocked by the
realization that you are you. And now and then, when you have gone to the mirror
to arrange your hair in the full sobriety of early morning, have you not looked on an

absolute stranger, and has not that stranger piqued your curiosity? And if it is thus
with precise external details of form, colour, and movement, what may it not be
with the vague complex effect of the mental and moral individuality?

一件认识起来很奇特却很受益的亊情是,一个人常常不晓得 别人对他的印象是什么。是
好呢，是坏呢，还是不好不坏， 这些倒是能够十分准确地猜测出来——有些人甚至没有必
要让 你去猜测，他们实质上就讲给你听了——但是我想要说的不是 这个。我想要说的远
不止这个。我想要说的是，一个人头脑中 对自己的印象和他本人在他朋友们头脑中的印象，
往往很不一 致。你曾经想到过这样的事情吗？——世界上有那么一个诡异 的人，到处跑
来跑去，上街访友，又说又笑，口出怨言，大发议论， 他的朋友都对他很熟悉，对他早已
知根知底，对他的看法早有定 论——但是除了偶尔且谨慎的只言片语以外，平时却很少对
你 透露。而那个人就是你自己。比如，你走进一家客厅去喝茶，你 敢说你就能认得这个人
就是你自己吗？我看不一定。很可能， 你也会像客厅里的客人那样，当你难以忍受其他客
人的骚扰时 心里就盘算说：“这是哪个家伙，真是怪异。但愿他少讨人嫌。” 你的第一个
反应就是略带敌意。甚至就连你突然在一面镜子前 面遇到了你自己，穿的衣服也正是你心
里记得很请楚的那天的 服装，怎么样，你还是会因为认出了你是你这件事而感到吃惊。 还
有当你有时候到镜子前去整理头发时，尽管是在最清醒的大 清早,你不是也好像瞥见一个完
全陌生的人吗？而且这个陌生 人还让你颇为好奇呢。如果说连形式颜色动作这类外观准确
的 细节都是这样，那么对于像心智和道德这种不易把握的复杂印 象又将怎样呢？

A man honestly tries to make a good impression. What is the result? The result
merely is that his friends, in the privacy of their minds, set him down as a man who

tries to make a good impression. If much depends on the result of a single
interview, or a couple of interviews, a man may conceivably force another to accept
an impression of himself which he would like to convey. But if the receiver of the
impression is to have time at his disposal, then the giver of the impression may just
as well sit down and put his hands in his pockets, for nothing that he can do will
modify or influence in any way the impression that he will ultimately give. The real
impress is, in the end, given unconsciously, not consciously; and further, it is
received unconsciously, not consciously. It depends partly on both persons. And it
is immutably fixed beforehand. There can be no final deception...

有的人真心实意地去努力制造一个好印象。但是结果如何 呢？不过是被他的朋友们在
内心深处认为他是一个刻意给人留 下好印象的人。如果一切只凭着单独地会一次面或者见
几次 面,——这个人倒是很可能迫使另一个人接受他本人希望造成 的某种印象。但是如果
接受印象的人有足够的时间来自由支 配，那么印象的给予者就干脆束手静坐了， 因为他的
所有招数都丝毫改变不了或者影响不了他最终所造成的印象。总之。真正的印象是无意而不是刻意造成的。进而，它也是无意而不是刻意被接受的。它的形成依靠双方，而且是事先就
已经确定 的，最终的欺骗是不可能的……

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