■「小雞總會回到雞窩的」，上一句是「詛咒就像小雞」。 資料圖片（續9月1日期）"These bad habits have been festering inside him for years. Recall his musings about the usefulness of embellishment in his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal."
這些壞習慣是在他體內已經滋生了多年的膿。說回他在1987年的《交易藝術》一書中，他對「點綴的可塑性」有一種看法 。
"People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular," he wrote. "I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration - and a very effective form of promotion."
他寫道：「人們希望相信一些事情是最巨大的、最偉大的、及最壯觀的，我稱之為誠懇的誇張，這是一種純真的鋪張方法，亦是一個非常有效的宣傳手法。」
"But he should know a thing or two about that, which is why not very many of us will feel sorry for him even then. Chickens coming home to roost, and all that."
但是他（特朗普）應該知道多一點，那就是為何同情他的人並不多。（美國有一句成語）小雞總會回到雞窩的，這便說明一切。
「小雞」一句雋語是來自在1809年，Robert Southey（羅伯特．騷塞）的一首詩"The Curse of Kehama"（Kehama的詛咒）："Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost. "詛咒就像小雞，他們總會回到雞窩的。另外，英語也另有一句，"You reap what you."（果因皆早種），提醒我們，惡毒的人終必自作自受。■林健根 會計師
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