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Facts About Women
有关女人的事实
1. Women love to shop. It is the one area of the world where they feel like they're actually in control.
1. 女人爱去商场购物,商场是她们认为在这个世界上她们能够实际控制的区域。
2. Women especially love a bargain. The question of "need" is irrelevant1, so don't bother pointing it out.
2. 女人都喜欢特价商品,所谓的“需求”是无关紧要的,就没必要给她们指出来了。
3. Women never have anything to wear. Don't question the racks of clothes in the closet; you "just don't understand."
3. 女人总是没衣服穿,不用问她们壁橱里挂的那些衣服是怎么回事,你“就是不会明白的”。
4. Women need to cry. And they won't do it alone unless they know you can hear them.
4. 女人是要哭的,而且她们自己哭的时候一定会让你听到。
5. Women will always ask questions that have no right answer, in an effort to trap you into feeling guilty.
5. 女人总是要问没有正确答案的问题,就是为了要让你感到内疚。
6. Women love to talk. Silence intimidates2 them and they feel a need to fill it, even if they have nothing to say.
6. 女人爱说个不停,沉默会让她们感觉受到威胁,所以一定要打破它,即使她们没什么可说的。
7. Women need to feel like there are people worse off than they are. That's why soap operas and Oprah Winfrey-type shows are so successful.
7. 女人需要知道有人比她们生活得不好,这就是肥皂剧和奥普拉脱口秀风行一时的原因所在。
8. Women hate bugs3. Even the strong-willed ones need a man around when there's a spider or a wasp4 involved.
8. 女人都讨厌昆虫,再强势的女人见到蜘蛛或是黄蜂之类的虫子也要男人在旁保护。
9. Women can't keep secrets. They eat away at them from the inside. And they don't view it as being untrustworthy, providing they only tell two or three people.
9. 女人不能保守秘密,这些东西会让她们内心痒痒的。而且如果只对两三个人说起,她们也不认为这是泄密。
10. Women always go to public restrooms in groups. It gives them a chance to gossip.
10. 女人总是结伴去洗手间,并趁此机会交头接耳。
11. Women think all beer is the same.
11. 女人觉得所有的啤酒都一个味。
12. Women keep three different shampoos and two different conditioners in the shower.
12. 女人会在浴室里放上三种洗发水和两种护发素。
13. After a woman showers, the bathroom will smell like a tropical rain forest.
13. 女人洗完澡后,浴室就像是热带雨林。
14. Women brush their hair BEFORE bed.
14. 女人在睡觉前梳头。
15. Women are NEVER wrong. Apologizing is the man's responsibility.
15. 女人从来不会出错,道歉是男人的义务。
16. Women do NOT know anything about cars. "Oli-stick? Oil doesn't stick."
16. 女人对车一无所知。“油穿刺(机油尺)?油不会穿刺的。”
17. Women will drive miles out of their way to avoid the possibility of getting lost using a shortcut5.
17. 女人开车在路上时,会为了怕抄近路迷了路而绕上几里远。
18. Women do NOT want an honest answer to the question, "How do I look?"
18. 对于“我看上去怎么样”之类的问题,女人并不想要你诚实地回答。
19. Women will make three right-hand turns to avoid making one left-hand turn.
19. 为了避免左拐弯,女人会来三个右拐弯。
20. "Oh, nothing," has an entirely6 different meaning in woman-language that it does in man-language.
20. “哦,没什么”这句话从女人嘴里说出来的含义和从男人嘴里说出来的大相径庭。
21. Women cannot use a map without turning the map to correspond to the direction that they are heading.
21. 女人一定要把地图的方向和地理方位对应上才能看得懂地图。
22a. All women are overweight by definition, don't argue with them about it.
22a. 理论上讲,所有的女人都超重,在这一点上不要和她们争论。
22b. All women are overweight by definition, don't agree with them about it.
22b. 理论上讲,所有的女人都超重,在这一点上不要附和她们。
23. If it is not Valentine's Day, and you see a man in a flower shop, you can probably start up a conversation by asking, "What did you do?"
23. 如果你在不是情人节的时候看到一个男人在花店里,就几乎一定可以问他:“你做了什么?”
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1 irrelevant | |
adj.不恰当的,无关系的,不相干的 | |
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2 intimidates | |
n.恐吓,威胁( intimidate的名词复数 )v.恐吓,威胁( intimidate的第三人称单数 ) | |
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3 bugs | |
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误 | |
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4 wasp | |
n.黄蜂,蚂蜂 | |
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5 shortcut | |
n.近路,捷径 | |
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6 entirely | |
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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