当我谈论汽车的时候,我丈夫不爱听。你可能认为他爱听我谈论汽车,他会喜欢能说他的语言、能很在行地谈论差速器、扭转力和能把电流输入电池里去的什么东西的一位妻子,但是你错了。“你每分钟的转数太高了,”一天晚上我对他说, “你快超过安全极限。”我丈夫从对面看着我,一副不解的样子。当时我们正坐在餐桌旁而不是在车里,这也许增添了他的困惑吧。 When I talk about cars, my husband doesn’t like to listen. You may think that he loves listening to me talking about cars. He would like a wife who can speak his language, talk about differentials, twisting forces, and what can put current into batteries. But you’re wrong. Now. “You’ve gotten too many turns per minute,” I said to him one night. “You’re faster than the safe limit.” My husband looked at me from across and looked puzzled. At the time we were sitting at the table instead of in the car, which may have added to his confusion.