VIP(n.)
此外 V.I.P.,1933年,是对 very important person 或 personage 的首字母缩写; 但直到第二次世界大战后才普及。
At most, the greatest persons, are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull conversation, but as moales for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world, that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. [John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodere, Sept. 1608]
至多,最伟大的人物只是一些巨大的赘瘤和突起物; 他们是才智和愉悦对话的人,但除非他们融入整个世界的主体,并对整体的延续做出一点贡献,否则只是点缀,无为而为。