Rule Five: : No Girlfriends
原則五:防閨蜜
Sense and Sensibility's Lucy Steele is a great enthusiast for 'girl-talk'. But 'girl-talk' has that toxic tendency of making us more indifferent to what is real, transporting us to a realm of hyperbole in which nothing much matters - hence Lucy's utter carelessness as to which of the Ferrars brothers she ends up getting married to. Steer clear of 'girl-talk,' says Jane Austen, and keep your romantic analyses for the only one who merits them: your man.
《理智與情感》中的露西·斯蒂爾非常熱衷于“女生間的悄悄話”,但是“女生間的悄悄話”有其負面作用,會讓我們對現實越來越漠不關心,讓我們陷入一種認為一切都無所謂的夸張的思維方式之中——所以露西才會毫不在意自己最終會嫁給法拉利眾兄弟之中的哪一個。遠離“女生間的悄悄話”,簡·奧斯丁說,把你關于愛情的思考只留給那個值得這些思考的人——你的愛人。