英漢英語美文：爸爸寫給女兒的信
親愛的小寶貝，
Recently, your mother and I were searching the Internet, and Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top was “How to keep him interested.”
最近，你母親和我在搜索互聯網時，谷歌返回了一張世界上最流行的搜索列表。位于頂端的是“如何讓他感興趣。”
It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior.
這嚇了我一跳。我瀏覽了無數文章中的幾篇，關于如何變得性感、何時給他一瓶啤酒和三明治以及讓他感覺聰明和優越的方法。
And I got angry.
我生氣了。
Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”
小寶貝，這不是、從來不曾是、且永遠不會是你的工作來“讓他感興趣”。
Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.)
小寶貝，你唯一的任務是在你靈魂里深深地知道——在那堅定不移、不因拒絕和失去以及自我而慌亂的地方——你值得關注。(如果你能記住，其他每個人也值得關注，你的人生之戰多數會贏。但這是另一天的信。)
If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: You will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all his interest in you.
如果你能這樣相信你的價值，你會在世界上大多數重要場合引人注目：你會讓一個男孩為你著迷，他不僅能有興趣，而且想花一輩子時間投入他的全部興趣在你身上。
Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting:
小寶貝，我想告訴你，這個男孩不需要一直感興趣，因為他知道你是有趣的：
I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking.
我不介意他是否將手肘擱在餐桌上——只要他將眼光集中在你微笑時皺起的鼻子上。然后不能停止注視。
I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.
我不介意他是否和我打高爾夫——只要他能和你給他的孩子們玩，并且陶醉于所有極好和令人懊惱的方式，他們只是喜歡你。
I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart.
我不在乎他怎么選舉——只要他每天早上醒來，天天選你做一家之主、放在他心里崇敬的位置上。
In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that, and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common: you.
最后，小寶貝，如果你偶然發現一個像這樣的男人，并且他和我沒什么共同之處，我們會有最重要的共同點：你。
Your eternally interested guy,
永遠對你感興趣的人，
Daddy
爸爸
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