Katherine's Wonderland 14 --- Women

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Women

女性

作者：乔治 艾略特

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life – some joy in things for their own sake.

我们女人始终面临的危险是生活上一味与感情相伴，虽然我们的感情或许是我们拥有的最好的天赋，我们还是应该有一份比较独立的生活——超然物外地喜好某些事物。

It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed – because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love.

看到有些娇媚的女性感情失意时百般无奈真是可怜——因为她们得到的全部教诲就是，她们只能为个人爱情才去喜欢某种研究对象。

They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at.

她们从未把无所依靠的热衷于思想视为一种经验，而这种经验她们是可以坦然相告而不会遭人笑话的。

Yet surely women need this defence against passionate affliction even more than men.

不过肯定比起男人来，女人跟家需要这种自我保护，从而战胜强烈感情的折磨。