他們這麼說愛情(七)聯副 繽紛
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
女人除了在信尾的附言外,很少寫出真心話。
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreads.
內心如擔驚受怕,愛情就無從滋長。
Men like to pursue an elusive woman, like a cake of wet soap in a bathtub--even men who hate baths.
男人喜歡追逐像浴缸裡的肥皂般滑不溜丟的女人—即便是不喜歡洗澡的男人亦然。
If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
如果愛情虐待你,你就虐待愛情。
Loving goes by haps: some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
愛情全憑機緣,有人被愛神的箭射中,有人卻自陷情網。
It is a very rare thing to find a man preferring his neighbour’s son or daughter to his own, but not his neighbour’s wife.
喜歡鄰居子女甚於喜歡自己子女的男人很罕見,至於鄰居的妻子又是另一回事了。
Generally the woman chooses the man who will choose her.
通常女人都會選擇會選擇她的男人。
My love shall in my verse ever live young.
我的愛在我的詩中歷久長青。
Ruined love, when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
毀損的愛情一旦修復,將比從前更美好、更堅定、更宏偉。
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out the window.
作家的妻子永遠不會了解,作家對著窗外凝望,正是他默默工作時。
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
結婚,就是將環狀物套在女士手指上、穿在男士鼻孔上的儀式。
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
女人一旦與男人平等,就會凌駕其上。
My love’s more richer than my tongue.
我的愛情比我的口才更富有。
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
單身漢為了避免被一個女人套牢,卻和一大票女人糾纏不清。
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
勿以信任丈夫而遠之,勿以信任單身漢而近之。
When a man’s dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
連狗都反目相向之日,就是妻子打包細軟回娘家之時。
How this spring of love resemblance the uncertain glory of an April day.
愛戀的青春多像陰晴不定的四月天。
A woman that paints puts up a bill that she is to let.
女人塗脂抹粉,等於為自己張貼招租廣告。
When a woman begins to think, her first thought is of a new dress.
當女人開始思考時,她想到的第一件東西就是新衣服。
A lover may bestride the gossamer that idles in the wanton summer air, and yet not fall.
戀愛中人可以踩在夏空中迎風飄蕩的蛛絲上,而不致摔落。
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