一次,开车去芝加哥,途经圣路易斯的时候,汽车抛锚,就近停在了一家停车场,准备把备用轮胎先换上。但是我和先生二个都没有经验,又带着孩子。当附近一个黑人晃的时候,他问要不要帮忙,我们正求之不得。于是问他价钱。他说,“several bucks"。先生信以为真。当换完之后,我拿出5块钱,其实我也不相信他会要价那么便宜。果然,他看了一眼,就回了一句,“are you kidding?".我马上知道先生误解了他的意思。当时的情形之下,只要随便踢一下车,或者是拉扯一下我和孩子一下,损失都比我付他几十块钱大得多,我示意要意气用事的老公不要作声,我来处理这件事情,于是问他,“那么你想要多少钱呢?”他咽了咽唾沫,说,“20”。我飞速地想了一下,20块对于换一下备用轮胎是贵了点。但是天色已晚,我不想和他再作纠缠。于是就准备给他,因为已经给了他一些零票子,就想以此加到20,但是不够。于是我换了一张20元整票子给他,然后要求他把原来的钱退还给我。
This is one of the first comments I posted, didn't mean to be mean to her. But anyway, we got where we got today.
"我觉得你更应该把你自己塑造成“才女”而不是“美女”。
A little modesty (or realism) won't do you any harm. Be less cynical and critical towards other beautiful women can actually make yourself more credible."
stonedoor 发表评论于
Wow, as a guy, I like each writing that is good no matter how beautiful or ugly the author is, though I like pretty women as a tradition man. Honestly I like 水门汀's words, though I can't agree with her at times. Cement's figure does look good to me but it is not the reason to make me read her words. Zhang Ailing was never a pretty woman in my opinion but she was once my favorite lady writer.
By the way, I would say 水门汀's old picture might be more meaningful, which let us see a pair of eyes that had something in them. Here, I didn't see that uniqueness.
I happened to cross this article,think you may enjoy it as much as I do. ;-)
Written by someone who even knows your blog (and many others' of course).
"制造美女的第三个方法,就是在互连网上装。别的不说,就说这小小的文学城吧,除了“老丑婆”、“老恐龙”等不多的几位“丑”女之外,哪个不是貌似天仙,美若桃花?以至于你如果到中国城等华人聚集的地方走一趟,已经很难发现一个美女了。海外的中国美女,大概都跑到文学城上网了。反正隔着屏幕,四十开外的大妈,可以装扮成二十岁的少女,茁壮丰满的阿姨,可以变换成阿娜撩人的少妇。“偶是美女,who怕who啊?”难怪如今这么多男人上网成瘾,原来都是美女惹的祸"
水门汀 发表评论于
回巴黎:那么,你有没有一件"皇帝的新装"呢?
怎么会和你无关呢?你不会无缘无故赠我一件"皇帝的新装"吧?:)这回走得踏实,满意了吧!
So long!
春天的巴黎 发表评论于
你的美貌就像皇帝的新衣。
but you're right, it's not my business if you consider yourself to be so beautiful. You can, it's your right, just as I have my right to think the opposite.
Anyway, there are a lot other interesting blogs written by many interesting women here, so so long.
ps: it doesn't worth my time to discuss if you are pretty or not. So yes, I won't understand your "self-promoting" kind of articles that you will (certainly)continue to write.
不过它们读起来真是很好笑。。。so, please continue, at least, they are very "entertaining".
我觉得你更应该把你自己塑造成“才女”而不是“美女”。
A little modesty (or realism) won't do you any harm. Be less cynical and critical towards other beautiful women can actually make yourself more credible.
"stonedoor":I don't understand what you are talking about? Each girl is different and ZZY is just one of them.
Many many girls can be very successful and those two are just more than lucky. That's it. They have been achieved whatever they want so far. Then, what is their contributions to this world, to those people who really love them so much like you? Do you think how much could be deserved for the reputation “one good actress” ?
Oops, this is a harsh one. I wonder why gals including my wife and her sister don't like ZZY. There are so many beautiful girls in China but there is only one ZZY. Perhaps back to the days when you were an undergraduate, there were similar comments about Gong Li, who is actually a very good actress. About Broken Back Mountain, I thought the producer chose the script instead of Ann Lee. I would like to ask a question quietly here: do the gals like to put things in a straightforward and simple way?