Letting Go of the One That Got Away 逝者已矣！

 

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Ronald is buying his old pal, Agatha, a drink:  罗讷德请他的老友阿嘉莎喝杯饮料。

 

A: What’s that in your wallet? You still have your ex’s picture! Ronald, Heather dumped you a year ago.

你皮夹里那是什么东西啊？你还留着前女友的照片？罗讷德，海瑟一年前就把你给甩了。

 

R: Don’t rub it in. I just can’t stop thinking about what could have been – I know it sounds cheesy, but I truly believe she was my soul mate.

别再提了。我只是没办法不去回想过去可能发生的种种──我知道那听起来很「俗」，但我由衷相信，她是我心灵相契的伴侣。

 

A: There are plenty more fish in the sea, Ronald; it’s time you moved on.

罗讷德，天涯何处无芳草，是你该向前走的时候了。

 

R: But Heather was perfect; if I’m obsessing over her, it’s because I’ll never find anyone else like her.

可是海瑟是那么完美；若说我还在迷恋她，那是因为我将永远找不到跟她一样的人。

 

A: You’ll never find anyone else, period! How can you expect to get over her if you keep her picture in your wallet?

你休想找到任何人，就这样！要是你一直把她的照片放在皮夹里，又怎能指望自己忘了她呢？

 

R: I threw away everything else that reminded me of her.

我把其它会让我想起她的每一样东西都丢掉了。

 

A: Destroying the evidence is a good start, but the key to blowing out an old flame is self-deception.

摧毁证物是好的开始，但忘却旧情的关键在于自我欺骗。

 

R: You mean by focusing on Heather’s not-so-attractive attributes – telling myself she wasn’t so perfect after all?

你是说要把焦点放在海瑟那些没那么讨人喜欢的特质上──告诉自己她毕竟不是十全十美的？

 

A: Right. Do that and you won’t pine for her so much – you’ve got to remove those rose-tinted glasses!

是啊。这么做，你就不会想她想得这么苦了──你得摘下你的玫瑰色眼镜，别把她看得那么美好。

 

R: Hmm….well, Heather did use to clip her toenails in bed …… and drool in her sleep.

嗯……海瑟的确会在床上剪脚趾甲……睡觉时还会流口水。

 

A: There you go! Keep that up and you’ll soon be hardly able to bear the thought of her!

这就对啦！继续这样下去，很快，你一想到她就会受不了了。

 

－by Sandra Walker

 

Vocabulary

单词发音

 

ex [ɛks] n.【非正式】前妻; 前夫; 前女友; 前男友

dump [dʌmp] v. 抛弃〔某人〕; 丢弃﹐扔掉〔某物〕

rub it in【口】反复提及令人不快的事 if someone rubs it in, they keep talking about something that makes you feel embarrassed or upset

cheesy [ˋtʃizɪ] adj. 廉价的; 劣质的; 虚伪的

move on  继续前进; 走开去 to do something different

obsess [əbˋsɛs] v. 使着迷; 使缠绕; 使心神不宁

period [ˋpɪrɪəd] int. 感叹词（用于句末，表示断定的口气）就这样，没什么好说的

get over 把...忘怀

blow out 切断；中止

old flame【俚】旧情人

self-deception [͵sɛlfdɪˋsɛpʃən] n. 自欺

attribute [ˋætrə͵bjut] n. 属性；特性，特质

pine [paɪn] v. 痛苦，悲哀[（+for）]

rose-tinted glasses  if someone looks at something through rose-tinted glasses, they see only the pleasant parts of it  看问题(尤指生活)过于乐观

rose-tinted [ˋroztɪntɪd] adj. 玫瑰色的；乐观的，希望的

toenail [ˋto͵nel] n. 脚趾甲

drool [drul] v. 流口水

keep up 保持(同一速度或水平); 继续

 

 

Sentence of the Day

Get over it!

忘了它!