盤點左撇子名人（4）

　　No. 4 Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破侖·波拿巴

　　Legend has it that Napoleon objected to the time-honored military practice of marching on the left side of the road with weapons at the ready in the right hand: it put lefties like him at a strategic disadvantage. Once in power, the story goes, the French emperor--whose queen, Josephine, was also a southpaw--ordered his armies to switch sides. Civilians in countries he conquered had to do the same. Hence, supposedly, the rules of the road as we know them were born, which also explains why the British (who, along with the Prussians, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo) still drive on the left.

　　據傳，拿破侖反對士兵站在道路的左邊而右手拿著武器這一經歷了時間考驗的軍事慣例，這項慣例讓像他這樣的左撇子在戰術上非常不利。據傳說中記載，這位法國國王(他的王后約瑟芬也是左撇子)掌權之后，命令軍隊士兵改變左右列隊位置。所有他所征服的國家百姓也都必須這樣做。據說，因此也就產生了我們現在所知的道路法規，這也解釋了為什么英國人是靠馬路左邊開車的。(英國人和普魯士人在滑鐵盧打敗了拿破侖)