八十一歲結(jié)婚Married at Eighty-One
金圣嘆1說過:“人生三十不仕,不當(dāng)再仕2,五十不娶,不當(dāng)再娶3。何則?用非其時(shí)也?!?/p>
“Once you’re over thirty, you should stop thinking of landing a sought-after government career, and once you’re over fifty, you should not take a shot at nuptial bliss,” advised Jin Shengtan, a famed seventeenth-century literary critic, “because these feats can only be accomplished much earlier.”
這一種說法,可代表中國人一般的普通思想。(剩余5126字)