八十一岁结婚Married at Eighty-One
金圣叹1说过:“人生三十不仕,不当再仕2,五十不娶,不当再娶3。何则?用非其时也。”
“Once you’re over thirty, you should stop thinking of landing a sought-after government career, and once you’re over fifty, you should not take a shot at nuptial bliss,” advised Jin Shengtan, a famed seventeenth-century literary critic, “because these feats can only be accomplished much earlier.”
这一种说法,可代表中国人一般的普通思想。(剩余5126字)