Picture a small horse that has never pulled a cart. It is washed, brushed, its mane plaited, and then led into a ring so that judges and a crowd can look at it. It may be a very good animal, and it may jump a clean round. But every arrangement around it — the feeding, the grooming, the walk into the ring — is there so that it will be seen. Hold that picture and the joke about people comes out of it by itself: the person called a show pony is the one groomed for the ring.
可以想成一匹被刷得亮亮的小馬。牠沒有下過田，也沒有拉過車。人幫牠洗好、刷好、把鬃毛編起來，再牽進場子裡。評審和觀眾就圍在旁邊看。牠可能真的很優秀，跳起障礙也很漂亮。但牠身上的每一樣安排，都是為了「被看見」。抓住這個畫面，用來說人的那個意思，就自己長出來了。
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