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手頭正在讀A Suitable Boy一書，昨天看到一段覺得特別有意思，因?yàn)橐灿羞^內(nèi)容不同、語(yǔ)境相似的遭遇，所以有些感同身受。

書中講到一對(duì)相親的男女，經(jīng)過一段時(shí)間的相處，彼此都有些好感，正在走向穩(wěn)定。在一次約會(huì)后，道別前，女方說次日要去某個(gè)地方，男方則想二人再次見面，女孩不經(jīng)意地說了一句Oh, don’t be mean. 此話一出，一直溫文爾雅的男孩馬上就縮回了牽住女孩的手：I am not mean.

對(duì)于女孩來說，Oh, don’t be mean是一句口頭禪，在學(xué)校里面，關(guān)系熟稔的女孩子們每天都可能說上二十句，并沒有想傷害人的意思：an expression that the girls must have used twenty times a day to each other. Some of it had survived ---especially in certain moods---in her present day speech. It meant nothing particularly wounding.

但是且慢！說者無(wú)心，聽者有意，語(yǔ)言是有代溝的，這個(gè)“代溝”，不僅僅是年紀(jì)上的“溝”，也包括文化、階層、性別等等的溝。女孩不知道的是，男孩跟她年齡雖然相仿，但周遭環(huán)境并不完全一樣：To be called “mean”---ungenerous, lowly, base---and that too by the woman he loved and for whom he was prepared to do so much---he could tolerate some things, but he would not tolerate that. He was not ungenerous –far less so than her cavalier brother who had had hardly a word of appreciation for his efforts a few days earlier and who did not reciprocate his hospitality.在他眼里，mean相當(dāng)于“不大度”、“卑微”、“低賤”，這極大地刺激了他的自尊。雖然他喜歡這個(gè)女孩，也可以容忍她的一些言行，但這個(gè)不行。

于是他簡(jiǎn)慢地扔下幾句道別話，揚(yáng)長(zhǎng)而去。