Picture a strip of cloth with the school's own colours on it, worn by every student there. It says nothing about who you are and everything about where you belong. Now picture a man of fifty who still, in a way, has it round his neck: another man sees the colours, knows the school, and the two of them are already on the same side. That is how the cloth and the connection sit in one word.
可以想成一條印著學校顏色的布，全校的人都繫著同一條。它不說你是誰，只說你是哪裡的人。接著把畫面往後推三十年：一個五十歲的人，脖子上好像還掛著那條領帶。另一個人看到那個顏色，認出是同一所學校，兩個人就算自己人了。布和關係，就這樣裝在同一個詞裡。