Provided that husband and wife are not in the same or directly comparable lines of work, the harsh fact of her greater success can be obscured by a genial conspiracy to reject a purely monetary measure of achievement as intolerably crude.
如果丈夫和妻子不在相同或直接可比的工作领域,她取得更大成功的严酷事实可能会被一个和蔼可亲的阴谋所掩盖, 即拒绝以无法忍受的粗俗来衡量成就的纯金钱衡量标准。