I remember sometime in the early 1980s

那还是在八十年代初的时候
sitting at the lunch table in the MIT faculty club

我当时在MIT的教工俱乐部里吃午饭
in a way that some of you who know me won't find surprising.

了解我的人对我当时的行为不会感到意外
I was declaiming on various subjects

我当时特别喜欢就所有问题发表看法
with a certain lack of reticence

而且我管不住自己的嘴
that perhaps was not commensurate with my lack of knowledge.

这和我粗浅的知识水平很不想称
I asserted some proposition

一次我发表了一个观点
and Paul Samuelson turned to me and he said,

然后保罗·萨缪尔森转过来对我说
Larry I just wrote a eulogy for Art Okun, who died recently,

拉里我为刚刚过世的亚特·奥肯写了一篇文章
and I said that in all the years that I had known Art Okun,

里面提到在我认识他的这么多年里
Art Okun had never said a stupid thing.

他从来都没有发表过任何愚蠢的看法
Well Larry, now I won't be able to say that about you.

但是对你我可就不敢这么说了