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几年前,我经过一次短暂的国外旅行回到英国(当时我任剑桥大学三一学院的院长),伦敦希思罗机场的移民局官员在极其细致地查看了我的印度护照后,提出了一个从哲学角度来看颇为棘手的问题。他注视着我在入境单上所填的家庭住址(剑桥三一学院院长公寓),问该院长——我肯定与院长有着很好的关系——是不是我的一个亲密朋友。他的问题让我犹豫了
A few years ago I came back to England after a brief foreign trip (when I was the dean of Trinity College, Cambridge), immigration officials at London Heathrow came up with my India passport in great detail A rather tricky question from a philosophical point of view. He looked at my home address (Dean’s College, Trinity College, Cambridge) filled in on my immigration slip and asked if the dean-and I’m sure she had a good relationship with the dean-was not a close friend of mine. His question made me hesitate