经济学人下载:美国式幽默-有趣的人

Although Mr Trillin graduated from Yale University (his father encouraged him to go east having read Owen Johnson’s 1911 tale, “Stover at Yale”), he was brought up in Kansas City, Missouri. This led him to found the Missouri School of Poetry, with a membership of two—himself and T.S. Eliot, who was born in St Louis. In truth, he is more at home in the School of Ogden Nash of Rye, New York.

虽然特里林毕业于耶鲁大学（他父亲在读完欧文.约翰逊的1911故事《耶鲁的柴火》这本书后，鼓励他去东部），但是他生长在密苏里堪萨斯城。这样，他与另一名成员创立了密苏里诗歌学派，另一名成员是生于圣路易斯的艾略特诗人。其实，他更多的还是待在纽约黑麦奥格登.纳什学校。

Mr Trillin describes himself as a “Deadline Poet” because of the rhyming verses he contributes regularly to the Nation. Happily, there are pages of them in this book. One sample, after a headline in the New York Times: “SEC Accuses Goldman of Fraud in Housing Deal”:

特里林称他自己为“死线诗人”，因为他定期在《国家》上发布诗歌。庆幸的是，这本书里摘录了许多他的诗歌。如在纽约时报大标题文章“证券交易委员会指控高盛房屋交易诈骗”。

They’re doing God’s work, their CEO said.
They’re the kings of the Street.
They are regal.
So now we must ask if God ever knew
That some of his work was illegal.

他们正做的是上帝赋予的工作，他们的首席执行官说道。
他们是街道国王。
他们是帝王。
因此我们现在必须问问上帝
问他是否知道他的一些工作是非法行为。