……如果这代表或者模仿了一种休闲学院风（prep fashion），我一点都不会觉得意外，至少穿它的某一部分人是这样。金融圈正好就是吃这套的人群。[补充说明] 我说的是《The Official Preppy Handbook》。续集叫《True Prep》，还是那句话，烂透了，千万别读，第一部里那种妙趣横生、语调精准的幽默感荡然无存，真的太差劲了。
…wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit of dressed-down prep fashion being expressed or imitated, at least by a certain set of the folks wearing it. Finance'd be the right crowd for that. [EDIT] that is, The Official Preppy Handbook. The sequel's called True Prep and is, again, awful, do not read it, it has none of the fun, well-voiced humor of the first, it's bad, bad, bad.
我真希望能有一部更新一点的作品，能把同样的主题诠释得哪怕有它一半好也行。差不多同一时代、也有些渊源的《The Official Preppy Handbook》几年前出了本续集，但那就是本敷衍了事的垃圾，完全没有原作的那种洞察力和冷幽默。就是本纯靠名气（肯定还有销量）才得以出版的糟糕拼凑之作……
I'd love something more recent that treated the same subject anywhere close to as well. The near-contemporary and somewhat-related The Official Preppy Handbook received a sequel some years ago, but it's lazy crap with none of the insight or wry humor of the original. Awful little scrap-book that got published based on the reputation (and sales figures, I'm sure)…
…stably maintained by households under the top quintile (probably not under the top 10%, even), nor could the upper-middle (also upper, but largely upper-middle) described in the jokey-but-fairly-accurate Official Preppy Handbook, and those books are ~40 years old now. For one thing, both paint decent-or-better private prep school as key for that class, and that's never really been within the reach of the lower four quintiles,…
30 万美元（家庭年收入）根本不算中上阶级，除非这个词已经被稀释成了“普通中产，只是每个月能稍微剩点钱”——在 Fussell 的《Class》（格调）和《The Official Preppy Handbook》里的中上阶级是：- 送一两个孩子上好私立学校（猜猜给 Thomas 的贿赂里有哪一项……）。在那里，一个孩子一年少于 2.5 万美元根本下不来，而且只会更高。- 昂贵的长假……
$300k (household) isn't upper-middle, before the term became diluted to mean "middle, but with a little left over every month"—the upper-middle of Fussell's Class and The Official Preppy Handbook - Good private school for a kid or two (guess what one of the bribes to Thomas was...). Not gonna get away with much less than $25k/yr/kid, there, and it goes up from there. - Long vacations expensive…
……一路往上爬。不管是哪种情况，大概率都意味着得有家族资金支持。我没记错的话，以下书里或多或少、直接或间接地都提到了这个现象：Graeber 的《Bullshit Jobs》（2018）、Fussell 的《Class》（1983），以及 Birnbach 等人的《The Official Preppy Handbook》（1980）。
…your way up the ladder. Either way, that probably means family money. This phenomenon been mentioned, directly or obliquely, in IIRC all of: Bullshit Jobs (Graeber, 2018), Fussell's Class (1983), and The Official Preppy Handbook (Birnbach et al, 1980).
> 《The Official Preppy Handbook》哈哈，经典的 WASP 文学。从 80 年代中期之后我就再没想起过这本书了！读起来太搞笑了。
> The Official Preppy Handbook LOL, classic WASP literature. I haven't thought of this book since the mid-80s! It's a hilarious read.
……如果这代表或者模仿了一种休闲学院风（prep fashion），我一点都不会觉得意外，至少穿它的某一部分人是这样。金融圈正好就是吃这套的人群。[补充说明] 我说的是《The Official Preppy Handbook》。续集叫《True Prep》，还是那句话，烂透了，千万别读，第一部里那种妙趣横生、语调精准的幽默感荡然无存，真的太差劲了。
…wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit of dressed-down prep fashion being expressed or imitated, at least by a certain set of the folks wearing it. Finance'd be the right crowd for that. [EDIT] that is, The Official Preppy Handbook. The sequel's called True Prep and is, again, awful, do not read it, it has none of the fun, well-voiced humor of the first, it's bad, bad, bad.
我真希望能有一部更新一点的作品，能把同样的主题诠释得哪怕有它一半好也行。差不多同一时代、也有些渊源的《The Official Preppy Handbook》几年前出了本续集，但那就是本敷衍了事的垃圾，完全没有原作的那种洞察力和冷幽默。就是本纯靠名气（肯定还有销量）才得以出版的糟糕拼凑之作……
I'd love something more recent that treated the same subject anywhere close to as well. The near-contemporary and somewhat-related The Official Preppy Handbook received a sequel some years ago, but it's lazy crap with none of the insight or wry humor of the original. Awful little scrap-book that got published based on the reputation (and sales figures, I'm sure)…
……对于收入在后 80% 的家庭来说根本无法稳定维持（甚至可能都得是前 10% 以上才行），那本半开玩笑但相当精准的《Official Preppy Handbook》里所描绘的中上阶级（也有上层，但主要是中上阶级）也维持不了，而那些书距今都已经大约 40 年了。首先，两本书都把读一所还不错甚至更好的私立预科学校（prep school）视为跻身该阶层的关键，而后 80% 的家庭从来就负担不起这个……
…stably maintained by households under the top quintile (probably not under the top 10%, even), nor could the upper-middle (also upper, but largely upper-middle) described in the jokey-but-fairly-accurate Official Preppy Handbook, and those books are ~40 years old now. For one thing, both paint decent-or-better private prep school as key for that class, and that's never really been within the reach of the lower four quintiles,…
30 万美元（家庭年收入）根本不算中上阶级，除非这个词已经被稀释成了“普通中产，只是每个月能稍微剩点钱”——在 Fussell 的《Class》（格调）和《The Official Preppy Handbook》里的中上阶级是：- 送一两个孩子上好私立学校（猜猜给 Thomas 的贿赂里有哪一项……）。在那里，一个孩子一年少于 2.5 万美元根本下不来，而且只会更高。- 昂贵的长假……
$300k (household) isn't upper-middle, before the term became diluted to mean "middle, but with a little left over every month"—the upper-middle of Fussell's Class and The Official Preppy Handbook - Good private school for a kid or two (guess what one of the bribes to Thomas was...). Not gonna get away with much less than $25k/yr/kid, there, and it goes up from there. - Long vacations expensive…
……一路往上爬。不管是哪种情况，大概率都意味着得有家族资金支持。我没记错的话，以下书里或多或少、直接或间接地都提到了这个现象：Graeber 的《Bullshit Jobs》（2018）、Fussell 的《Class》（1983），以及 Birnbach 等人的《The Official Preppy Handbook》（1980）。
…your way up the ladder. Either way, that probably means family money. This phenomenon been mentioned, directly or obliquely, in IIRC all of: Bullshit Jobs (Graeber, 2018), Fussell's Class (1983), and The Official Preppy Handbook (Birnbach et al, 1980).