Why Men Love Women?
男人为什么爱女人？
文 / Paulo Coelho
译 / 易水寒
We men love women because they still feel they are adolescents even after they grow old.
男人之所以爱女人，是因为即使她们年事已高，也还觉得自己青春年少。
Because they smile every time they pass a child.
因为她们每次一看到孩子，都会微笑。
Because they walk down the street erect, always looking straiwww.58yuanyou.comght ahead, never turning round to say thanks or return the smile or compliment we make when they pass by.
因为她们走在大街上时昂首挺胸，总是目不斜视，对于擦身而过时我们奉上的微笑与赞美，她们从不会回头说声谢谢，或报以一笑。
Because they do everything necessary for the house to be tidy and perfect, and never expect any recognition for the work they have done.
因为她们总是竭尽所能把家里收拾得干净、整洁、完美，却从不期望得到别人的任何赞许。
Because they don’t complain about the sacrifices they make for the sake of the ideal of beauty, facing up to waxers, Botox injections and menacing machines in gyms.
因为她们为了追求美丽，毫无怨言、在所不惜，不惧脱毛膏，敢打肉毒素，苦练跑步机。
Because they prefer to eat salads.
因为她们喜欢吃沙拉。
Because they draw and paint their faces with the same concentration asMichelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel.
因为她们描眉画眼时的专注程度可与西斯廷教堂里作画的米开朗基罗相比。
Because if they want to know something about their own appearance, they ask other women and don’t bother us with this type of question.
因为她们如果想知道跟自己容颜有关的事，会去问别的女人，从不会缠着我们问东问西。
Because they have their own ways of solving problems, which we never understand, and that makes us mad.
因为她们办事自有一套办法，我们永远无法理解，只会为之气昏。
Because they feel compassion, and say “I love you” precisely when they are beginning to love uswww.58yuanyou.com less, to make up for what we can feel and notice.
因为当她们开始减少对我们的爱时，会心里揣着怜悯，嘴上说着“我爱你”，以此来弥补我们心头的失落和觉察到的差异。
Because sometim原由网es they complain about things that we feel too, such as colds andrheumatic pains, and then we understand that women are people just like us.
因为她们有时也会对感冒、风湿痛这些我们也会患的病抱怨不已，这让我们知道，她们也和我们一样是血肉之躯。
Because they write love stories.
因为她们喜欢写爱情小说。
Because while our armies invade other countri//www.58yuanyou.comes, they remain firm in their private and inexplicable war to put an end to all the cockroaches in the world.
因为当我们的军队入侵其他国家时，她们仍执着于她们自己那些莫名其妙的战争——把全世界的蟑螂消灭干净。
Because they cry their eyes out when they hear the Rolling Stones singing Angie.
因为她们听滚石乐队的《安琪》时会哭得一塌糊涂。
Because they are capable of going to work dressed like men, in their delicate little suits, whereas no man would ever dare go to work wearing a skirt.
因为她们能像男人一样穿套精致的小西装工作，而没有一个男人敢穿着裙子上班。
Because they always manage to find a convincing defect when we say that another woman is pretty, making us feel insecure about our taste.
因为当我们称赞另一个女人漂亮时，她们总能找出那个女人的某个致命缺陷，让我们不禁怀疑自己的品位。
Because they really take seriously everything that is happening in the private lives of celebrities.
因为她们真的对名人私生活中发生的一切都信以为真。
Because they just love exotic cocktails with different colors and delicate littleornaments, while we always have the same old whiskey.
因为她们喜欢那些有着异国情调、缤纷色彩和精致小饰品的鸡尾酒，而我们喝来喝去总是威士忌。
Because they don’t waste hours thinking about how they are going to approach the pretty young man who has just come on the bus.
因为她们不会浪费时间去考虑该怎么接近那个刚刚上车的帅哥。
Because we came from them, will go back to them, and until that happens, live in orbit around the feminine body and soul.
因为我们为她们所生，在她们全身心的呵护下一路走来，最终还会回到她们身边去。
And I would add: we men love them for being women. As simpWMFXMmVtle as that.
一言以蔽之，男人之所以爱女人，只因她们是女人。就这么简单。
