王尔德《无关紧要的女人》:
And the ending is the ordinary ending. The woman suffers. The man goes free.
结局也普通得很:女人吃了亏,男人占了便宜。
原文:
I will not. You talk of atonement for a wrong done. What atonement can be made to me? There is no atonement possible. I am disgraced: he is not. That is all. It is the usual history of a man and a woman as it usually happens, as it always happens. And the ending is the ordinary ending. The woman suffers. The man goes free.
不,我不要。你说要他补偿,可我能得到什么补偿呢?什么东西都补偿不了的。我得蒙羞,他不用蒙羞,就是这么回事。这就是男人和女人的遭遇,通常都是这样。永远都是这样。结局也普通得很:女人吃了亏,男人占了便宜。