4. You've been single a long time and are set in your ways
你單身太久,已經習慣了自己的生活方式
The longer you live as a single person, the more independent and self-sufficient you're forced to become. While this is not necessarily a bad thing, if taken to the extreme, it can hinder your efforts to find a mate. If you're used to doing everything yourself and for yourself only, it may be very difficult to let someone else into your life even though you may crave that closeness.
你單身的時間越久,你就迫使自己變得越獨立、越靠自己。這并不是壞事,但如果走向極端,會阻礙你找到另一半。如果你習慣了凡事親力親為,而且只為自己而做,也許就很難讓另一個人走進你的生活,哪怕你也許渴望這種親密。
Unfortunately, this becomes more and more true as we get older. I'm pretty set in my ways myself and all I can hope for is that if the right one does come along, that I will let him break through my wall of independence that I have created。
不幸的是,隨著我們漸漸長大,事情就越是如此。我已經非常習慣按自己的方式生活,我唯一能期望的是,如果那個對的人真的出現了,我會允許他打破我已經建立起來的這座獨立的墻。
n. 獨立,自主,自立