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I told her again this morning, "No, Wayan—I don't need it. My heart's been broken too many times."
今天早上，我又告訴她一次："不，大姐——我不需要。我心碎太多次。"
She said, "I know cure for broken heart." Authoritatively, and in a doctorly manner, Wayan ticked off on her fingers the six elements of her Fail-Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny."
她說："我知道如何治療心碎。"大姐以權威大夫的態度，用手指標出六種"零故障心碎療法"——"維他命E、睡眠充足、攝取充分的水、遠離你原本所愛的人、禪坐、心中認定這是自己的命"。
"I've been doing everything but the vitamin E."
"So now you cured. And now you need a new man. I bring you one, from praying."
"所以現在你已痊愈。現在你需要新男人。我會求神給你。"
"Well, I'm not praying for a new man, Wayan. The only thing I'm praying for these days is to have peace with myself."
"我不求神給我新男人，大姐。近來我只求讓自己平靜。"
Wayan rolled her eyes, like Yeah, right, whatever you claim, you big white weirdo, and said, "That's because you have bad memory problem. You don't remember anymore how nice is sex. I used to have bad memory problem, too, when I was married. Every time I saw a handsome man walking down the street, I would forget I had a husband back home."
大姐翻翻白眼，像在說"得啦，你這白種大怪物，隨你怎么說"，然后接著說："那是因為你記性不好。你已經忘了性愛多么美好。從前我已婚的時候記性也不好。每回看見英俊的男人走在街上，就忘了家里有個丈夫。"
She nearly fell over laughing. Then she composed herself and concluded, "Everybody need sex, Liz."
她幾乎笑倒在地。而后她鎮定下來，下結論說："每個人都需要性，小莉。"
At this moment, a great-looking woman came walking into the shop, smiling like a lighthouse beam. Tutti leapt up and ran into her arms, shouting, "Armenia! Armenia! Armenia!" Which, as it turned out, was the woman's name—not some kind of strange nationalist battle cry. I introduced myself to Armenia, and she told me she was from Brazil. She was so dynamic, this woman—so Brazilian. She was gorgeous, elegantly dressed, charismatic and engaging and indeterminate in age, just insistently sexy.
這時有名漂亮女人走進店里，綻放出燈塔般的笑容。圖蒂跳起來，奔向她的懷抱，喊著："亞美尼亞！亞美尼亞！亞美尼亞！"結果真的是這名女人的名字——而非某種奇怪的民族主義吶喊。我向亞美尼亞介紹自己，她告訴我說她是巴西人。這女人非常有活力——非常巴西。她艷光動人，穿著優雅，有氣質、有魅力，看不出年齡，性感無比。
