“But the blindness of love led her to believe what she wanted to be true, and her love was so great that it seemed impossible to her that it should not in return awake an equal love.”
“但爱情的盲目让她相信，她的追求是真实的，她的爱是伟大的，似乎不可能不唤起他同样的爱。”
“For in men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes its place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them. They are flattered and excited by them, but have an uneasy feeling that they are poor creatures. But even during the brief intervals in which they are in love, men do other things which distract their mind;the trades by which they earn their living engage their attention; they are absorbed in sport; they can interest themselves in art. For the most part, they keep their various activities in various compartments, and they can pursue one to the temporary exclusion of the other. They have a faculty of concentration on that which occupies them at the moment, and it irks them if one encroaches on the other. As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
“一般而言，爱情对男人只是插曲，是许多日常事务中的一件，而小说把它夸大了，事实上，它并没那么重要。虽然也有些男人，把爱情看得生死攸关，但他们往往显得无趣；即使那些相信天长地久的女人，也会瞧不起他们。她们被这种人阿谀奉承，乐得心花怒放，但还是会有不安，感觉他们是可怜虫。即便恋爱的时间非常短，男人也会三心二意，干些别的：赚钱谋生他们在意，体育运动他们专心，艺术创作也有兴趣。在大多数情况下，他们诸事并行，都不耽搁，但也专心致志，要追求这个，就得先放下那个。他们可以心无旁骛，如果一个打搅了另一个，他们会大为恼火。同样坠入情网，男人和女人的区别是：女人可以一天到晚谈恋爱，而男人只有几分钟。”
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