地道美語：“我對你沒感覺了”
女孩子分手后對男友念念不忘，終日沉湎于傷痛之中。數(shù)月后的一天，女孩子突然醒悟，于是拿起話筒，再次按下那個曾經(jīng)爛熟于心的號碼。聽筒那邊，再次想起了熟識的聲音：
man: Hello?
woman: It's me.
man: Oh...(silence)how are you?
woman: Look, I was just calling...to tell you...that...(long pause) I'm over you.(hang up)
簡單的一句話，卻傳達出千言萬語。Over本來就有完結(jié)的含義，往往用于難過的事情。這句I am over you就是My feelings for you are over的意思。
連年的戰(zhàn)火結(jié)束后，總統(tǒng)向群眾宣布：The war is finally over.
安慰正受病魔折磨的朋友，告訴他一切痛苦會很快過去，可以說：It'll all be over soon.
一對鬧分手的情侶可向?qū)Ψ秸f：We're over! 或Our relationship is over!
接下來再來看一封世界上最絕的分手信——也就是小說《Sense and Sensibility》中的 Willoughby威羅比給女主角Marianne瑪麗安娜的那封冷血的分手信。
當(dāng)扭傷了腳踝被威羅比送回家后，瑪麗安娜立即愛上了這個年輕英俊的小伙子。于是兩人陷入熱戀。未曾想威羅比為人不正，根本沒有把瑪麗安娜的感情真正放在心上?，旣惏材仍趥惗卦庥隽送_比的冷淡后，一封無情的信破滅了她心中的最后一絲希望。威羅比由于金錢而背棄了和瑪麗安娜之間的愛，而娶了富家小姐為妻。
那封絕情份額分手信是這樣寫的：
My Dear Madam,
I have just had the honour of receiving your letter, for which I beg to return my sincere acknowledgements. I am much concerned to find there was anything in my behaviour last night that did not meet your approbation; and though I am quite at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you, I entreat your forgiveness [...]. My esteem for your whole family is very sincere; but if I have been so unfortunate as to give rise to a belief of more than I felt, or meant to express, I shall reproach myself for not having been more guarded in my professions of that esteem. [...] It is with great regret that I obey your commands of returning the letters, with which I have been honoured from you, and the lock of hair, which you so obligingly bestowed on me.
I am, dear Madam, Your most obedient humble Servant,
John Willoughby.
信的大意是：我跟你從來沒有什么關(guān)系，是你自作多情了。最要命的是信中的措辭。信中用字極度謙卑有理，卻同時冷酷得叫人不寒而栗。這些字句，好像是寫給陌生人的公函，而非舊愛：
had the honour of receiving your letter
beg to return my sincere acknowledgements
anything in my behaviour... that did not meet your approbation
at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you
負心男更把責(zé)任都推在了自作多情的女主角身上，這些仍通過委婉的言辭道出：
if I have been so unfortunate as to give rise to a belief of more than I felt, I shall reproach myself for not having been more guarded in my professions of that esteem.
(大意是：假如我對你表現(xiàn)得太有善而引起誤會，我深感遺憾。)
