小鹿亂撞的少女情懷
#蕭叔叔的英國文學課
【明報專訊】肥宅大叔的騙人外表下，蕭叔叔其實是個情感細膩的真文青。Anyway，今日同大家分享一首叔叔很喜歡的情詩。作者叫Wendy Cope，詩名《After the Lunch》，是講女主角同男神午飯，在滑鐵盧橋上分別後，她一顆少女心突然怦怦亂跳，彷如亂撞小鹿。「點解嘅？」小女自問。然後是一大輪內心的掙扎，到最後她終於接受現實：佢「瀨野」了。
蕭叔叔好喜歡第一段最後一句：and try not to notice I've fallen in love. 表現出主角的自欺欺人：明明愛上男神了，卻try not to notice自己的心情。這個try字很能表達少女複雜的心情。
第二段繼續拒絕承認事實：I'm trying to think this is nothing. 「無事嘅！只係一時被酒精同男神級的魅力沖昏頭腦啫！」You're high on the charm and the drink. 但係主角暗地裡發覺，有啲唔妥：The juke-box inside me is playing a song that says something different.
最後主角終於接受現實，無論如何自欺欺人，最後不得不承認：「我愛上他了。」蕭叔叔好喜歡這一句：The head does its best but the heart is the boss：理性的腦袋已盡全力，但話事的始終是感性的心。橋走到一半就承認了：I admit it before I am halfway across.
有興趣聽蕭叔叔聲音演繹的，可click這個link。叔叔把聲一如以往地chok，敬請見諒。
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蕭叔叔
文：蕭愷一
作者簡介：蕭愷一，aka蕭叔叔。夢想做男神、現實是大叔的英文教學狂熱分子，law grad，哲學碩士dropout，語言學愛好者，以speak English like an educated native為教與學的終極目標。
After the Lunch by Wendy Cope
On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes,
The weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I’ve fallen in love.
On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:
This is nothing. You’re high on the charm and the drink.
But the juke-box inside me is playing a song
That says something different. And when was it wrong?
On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You’re a fool. I don’t care.
The head does its best but the heart is the boss —
I admit it before I am halfway across.
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