nice guys finish last好人会失败

【使用地区】：美国

【释义】：

A cynical proverb that has been attributed to former Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher，who wrote a book using it as the title．Back in the 1940s Durocher was sitting on the bench before a game with the New York Giants and saw opposing manager Mel Ott across the field．“Look at Ott，”he said to a group of sportswriters．“He’s such a nice guy and they’ll finish last for him．”One of the writers probably coined the phrase nice guys finish last from this remark，but the credit for it still goes to Leo the Lip．It is one of several baseball expressions that have become proverbial outside the sport．

这是一个讽刺性的谚语，意为“好人在生活中往往失败。”(隐含着“坏人却往往成功。”)该谚语出自前布鲁克林道杰斯队经理Leo Durocher，他用该短语作一本书的书名。20世纪40年代，在与纽约巨人队比赛之前，Durocher坐在长椅上，看到对方经理Mel Ott从场地走过，对一群体育记者说，“看看人家Ott，真是个好样的，但他们(指自己的队)一定会把他打败的。”也许在场的一名记者从他的话中创造了这个短语nice guys finish last，但这一说法主要还应归功于Leo的巧嘴。有一些出自棒球运动的表达方式成了日常使用的谚语，这就是其中之一。