一封绝妙的情书(An Ingenious Love Letter)_幽默英语

there once lived a lad who was deeply in love with a girl, but disliked by the girl’s father, who didn’t want to see any further development of their love. the lad was eager to write to the girl, yet he was quite sure that the father would read it first. so he wrote such a letter to the girl:

my love for you i once expressed

no longer lasts, instead, my distaste for you

is growing with each passing day. next time i see you,

i even won’t like that look yours.

i’ll do nothing but

look away from you. you can never expect i’ll

marry you. the last chat we had

was so dull and dry that you shouldn’t think it

made me eager to see you again.

if we get married, i firmly believe i’ll

live a hard life, i can never

live happily with you, i’ll devote myself

but not

to you. no one else is more

harsh and selfish and least

solicitous and considerate than you.

i sincerely want to let you know

what i said is true. please do me a favor by

ending our relations and refrain from

writing me a reply. your letter is always full of

things which displease me. you have no

sincere care for me. so long! please believe

i don’t love you any longer. don’t think

i still have a love of you!

having read the letter, the father felt relieved and gave it to his daughter with a light heart.

the girl also felt quite pleased after she read it carefully, her lad still had a deep love for her.

do you know why? in fact, she felt very sad when she read the letter for the first time. but she read it for a few more times and , at last, she found the key – only every other line should be read, that is the first line, the third, the fifth … and so on to the end.

一个小伙子非常爱一位姑娘，但姑娘的父亲却不喜欢他，也不让他们的爱情发展下去。小伙子很想给姑娘写封情书，然而他知道姑娘的父亲会先看，于是他给姑娘写了这样一封信：

我对你表达过的爱

已经消逝。我对你的厌恶

与日俱增。当我看到你时

我甚至不喜欢你的那副样子。

我想做的一件事就是

把目光移往别处，我永远不会

和你结婚。我们的最近一次谈话

枯燥乏味，因此无法使我渴望再与你想见。

假如我们结婚，我深信我将

生活得非常艰难，我也无法