美國流行笑話：A Degree in Philosophy 哲學(xué)學(xué)位的用處

43　A Degree in Philosophy 哲學(xué)學(xué)位的用處

Wondering why my daughter was returning to college to get a master's in philosophy, I asked, “What can you do with a degree like that?” “Well,” she explained, “it will qualify me to deal with questions like, ‘What is existence?’ ‘What is the essence of things?’ and ‘Do you want fries with that?’”

我不明白為什么我的女兒要回到大學(xué)里去讀哲學(xué)碩士的學(xué)位。我問她：“得一個這樣的學(xué)位有什么用呢？”她解釋說：“嗯，它會讓我有資格去處理一些問題，比如：‘什么是存在？’，‘什么是東西的要素？’，以及‘你要炸薯?xiàng)l配在一起嗎？’”