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224.
两厢情愿
Mutual consent (杨宪益译)

➣ 原是两家情愿，你不依，只好说，为什么哄出我来打我？（《红楼梦》第四十七回 呆霸王调情遭毒打 冷郎君惧祸走他乡）

➣ “We did this by mutual consent,” complained Hsueh Pan. “If you didn’t want to, you could simply have said so. Why fool me into coming out here and then beat me up?” (杨宪益译本)

➣ ‘You were willing, just as much as I was,’ Xue Pan muttered plaintively. ‘You had only to say so if you weren’t. Why fool me into coming out here with you and then beat me up?’ (霍克斯译本)
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：“I like to think none of this would have worked out if you weren't, at heart, just a little bit a good person.”
：“And if you weren't, deep down, just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing.”
：“Cheers. To the world.”
：“To the world.”
Perhaps the recent exertions had had some fallout in the nature of reality, because while they were eating, for the first time ever, a night inggale actually did sing in Berkeley Square. Nobody heard it over the noise of the traffic, but it was there right enough.
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I know you know we know,
You weren't down for forever and it's fine,
I know you know we know,
We weren't meant for each other and it's fine,
But if the world was ending you'd come over, right?
You'd come over and you'd stay the night,
Would you love me for the hell of it?
All our fears would be irrelevant,
If the world was ending you'd come over, right?
The sky'd be falling while I'd hold you tight,
No, there wouldn't be a reason why,
We would even have to say goodbye.