揭秘你所不知道的真实男人世界

 　　Sex and the City has been extremely successful at opening men’s eyes to the private world of women. And now, a new Chinese TV show Men is providing an honest, no-holds-barred window into the thoughts men wouldn’t dare say out loud to women.

　　《欲望都市》已经十分成功地让男士们看清了女性们的私人世界。而现在，一部全新国产电视剧《男人帮》则将那些男士们不敢对女士们大声说出的想法毫无保留和顾忌地展现出来。

　　Men revolves¹ around the lives of three men in search of the perfect relationship: Gu Xiaobai, a freelance writer who writes everything fromscreenplays to horoscopes; Luo Shuquan, a software engineer who works hard to buy an apartment; and Zuo Yongbang, a PR account director who doesn’t believe love will happen to him。

　　《男人帮》讲述了三位男主人公在生活中追求完美恋情的故事：顾小白——从剧本到星座秘笈、几乎什么都写的自由作家；罗书全——一位为了买套房子而拼命工作的软件工程师；左永邦——一位从不相信爱情会降临到自己身上的公关公司客户总监。

　　You probably won’t like these guys, but there are things women can learn from them about the male gender²:

　　尽管你可能会讨厌这些家伙，但从他们身上，女性们多少可以了解一些与男性有关的事情：

　　1. Men are show-offs.

　　1.男人爱炫耀。

　　Men love “chatty talk among friends” as much as women do. The three men in the show spend a lot of time together talking about things like troubled relationships and new women they meet.

　　男性同女性一样喜欢“朋友间闲聊”。剧中的三位男主人公花很多时间聚在一起讨论诸如感情困扰和新结交的女性这些话题。

　　But what’s interesting about their talk is that they do the “humble brag”. They appear to be complaining about something, but are actually boasting.

　　有意思的是，他们在聊天中总是“谦虚地吹牛”，看似在抱怨，而实际上却是在夸耀。

　　For example, one says: “I’m in trouble. I think she is falling in love with me.”

　　例如，其中一人说：“我有麻烦了。我觉得她爱上我了。”

　　“She thinks I am too rich for her. So what can I do? Get a smaller apartment for myself?”

　　“她觉得我太有钱了，她承受不起。那我能怎么办呢？给自己买个小点的公寓？”

　　“It’s really difficult for me to choose between two women.”

　　“从两个女人中选择一个这对我而言实在太难了。”

　　2. A beautiful woman’s face is like chocolate or cocaine³ to a man’s brain.

　　2. 对于男人的大脑而言，漂亮女人的脸蛋就好比巧克力或可卡因一样。

　　Gu Xiaobai has to make a choice between two women – the pretty but not-so-smart actress Xiaoqin and the plain-looking but knowledgeable⁴ Xiaolan he meets at a bookstore.

　　顾小白必须在两个女人间做出取舍——漂亮却不太聪明的女演员小秦和在书店结识的相貌平平但有见识的小兰。

　　He shares interests with the latter and enjoys talking to her. But still, he chooses the former who often fails to understand what he’s talking about.

　　他与小兰有着共同的兴趣爱好，并很愿意和她聊天。但最终，他还是选择了常常听不懂自己在说些什么的小秦。

　　He explains that “beauty is the best gift for women and the most effective weapon of women against men”.

　　顾小白解释说：“美貌是上帝赐给女人们最好的礼物，也是女人对抗男人最厉害的武器”。

　　3. Men love money, too.

　　3. 男人也爱钱。

　　Men may hate women loving money, but they feel weird⁵ if women don’t. The show says just about all of us have some degree of affection for money.

　　男人可能会反感那些拜金女，但如果女人不爱钱他们又会觉得奇怪。这部电视剧表明，几乎所有人在一定程度上都爱钱。

　　Gu feels it’s unreasonable⁶ that his new girlfriend hates his money. And he jokes that he even thinks about dating Zuo Yongbang because he gives his girlfriends a supplementary⁷ card.

　　顾小白认为新女友讨厌他的钱很不合情理。他开玩笑说，自己甚至考虑与左永邦约会，因为他会给他的女友一张附属卡。

　　4. Men don’t really hate Valentine’s Day. They just don’t care much about it.

　　4. 男人不是真的讨厌情人节。他们只是不太在乎它。

　　Valentine’s Day is nothing more than “the big day for restaurants and flower stores” in men’s eyes, or at least in the eyes of Zuo Yongbang.

　　在男人眼中，或者说至少在左永邦眼中，情人节只不过是“众多餐厅和花店的重大节日”。

　　The only reason men celebrate it is that they know women love it, although they don’t get why women take this day so seriously.

　　男人之所以庆祝情人节只是因为他们知道女人喜欢这个节日，尽管他们并不知道为什么女人把这一天这么当回事。

　　And if, however, they forget to make romantic gestures for the special day, the best excuse, in Gu’s words, is that “they say every day with your true love is Valentine’s Day”.

　　然而，如果男人们忘了在这个特殊的日子营造浪漫之举，那最好的借口，用顾小白的话说，就是“他们都说与自己心爱的人度过的每一天都是情人节”。

1 revolves   

v.（使）旋转( revolve的第三人称单数 )；细想

参考例句：

• The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis. 地球既公转又自转。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Thus a wheel revolves on its axle. 于是，轮子在轴上旋转。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

3 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

4 knowledgeable   

adj.知识渊博的；有见识的

参考例句：

• He's quite knowledgeable about the theatre.他对戏剧很有心得。
• He made some knowledgeable remarks at the meeting.他在会上的发言颇有见地。

5 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

6 unreasonable   

adj.不讲道理的，不合情理的，过度的

参考例句：

• I know that they made the most unreasonable demands on you.我知道他们对你提出了最不合理的要求。
• They spend an unreasonable amount of money on clothes.他们花在衣服上的钱太多了。

7 supplementary   

adj.补充的，附加的

参考例句：

• There is a supplementary water supply in case the rain supply fails.万一主水源断了，我们另外有供水的地方。
• A supplementary volume has been published containing the index.附有索引的增补卷已经出版。