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The hoopskirt runs its course and disappears. Nobody reasons about it. One woman abandons the fashion; her neighbor notices this and follows her lead; this influences the next woman; and so on and so on, and presently the skirt has vanished out of the world, no one knows how nor why, nor cares, for that matter. It will come again by and by and in due course will go again.
傘狀裙流行一陣后就消失了。沒有人對其尋根問底。一個女人放棄了這種時髦裙式，她的鄰居注意到了，也跟著放棄了；這又影響了下一個婦女，就這樣一位接著一位，久而久之這種裙子就在世界上銷聲匿跡了，沒有人知道它是如何或是為什么消失的，也沒人在意。它將在不久以后重新流行，又再次離去。
Twenty-five years ago, in England, six or eight wine glasses stood grouped by each person's plate at a dinner party, and they were used, not left idle and empty; today there are but three or four in the group, and the average guest sparingly uses about two of them. We have not adopted this new fashion yet, but we shall do it presently. We shall not think it out; we shall merely conform, and let it go at that. We get our notions and habits and opinions from outside influences; we do not have to study them out.
二十五年前在英國的晚宴上，六只或八只酒杯會被分類擺放在各位用餐者的餐碟旁邊，而各個杯子都會用到，沒有哪只閑罝不用；如今，每組只有三到四只酒杯，一般的客人節約起來只用其中的兩只酒杯。我們目前還沒有接受這種新潮流，但不久以后我們也會這么做。我們對此不會仔細思考，只要照做就行了，就讓它繼續好了。我們從外界的影響力中獲取想法、習慣與觀點，我們沒有必要仔細研究它們。
