When Frank Loesser penned “Slow Boat to China” he was actually romanticising a common poker player’s wish to be trapped with a cash-rich good loser for a long time. Container shipping lines are currently slowing their vessels to and from China. Their shareholders have already been big losers yet the end of the voyage is not in sight.
當弗蘭克•羅瑟(Frank Loesser)譜寫《乘坐慢船去中國》(Slow Boat to China)這首歌的時候,他其實是在浪漫地描寫一個普通撲克玩家的夢想:與一個身攜巨資卻一直輸的玩家同處一船,因此但願船走得慢些再慢些。眼下,許多集裝箱航運公司的確正在放慢進出中國的船速。他們的股東已經成爲大輸家,但航程終點還遙遙無期。
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