365个英语简短小故事-320. It’s All Over

“I don’t have anything to do with her anymore,” Robert swore to his girlfriend Wanda. Yet he admitted that Sharon, his ex-girlfriend, was still sending him emails. He said that he had stopped responding¹ to her emails a year ago, when he and Wanda had started dating. Then why was she still sending emails to him, Wanda demanded. Robert said he figured that she was lonely. He didn’t really know, because he always deleted² her emails without reading them.

“So,” Wanda asked, “you told her that you and I were dating, and you told her to stop emailing you. Yet she continued sending you emails. But you always deleted them without reading them. Is that correct?” Robert answered yes, that was 100 percent correct. “I don’t believe you,” Wanda said.

She believed that something was going on. She believed that they were playing her for a fool. It takes two to tango. Robert was not only reading, but also responding to, every email that Sharon sent him. As far as Wanda was concerned, Sharon still loved Robert and he wasn’t discouraging³ her. He said he was through with Sharon, but his phone was often busy late at night when Wanda tried to call him. When Wanda asked who he was talking to, he always said it was his investment⁴ company.

“Why don’t you just block her emails—then you won’t have to bother deleting⁵ them?” Wanda asked. Robert said he hadn’t thought about doing that. A day later, Wanda sent Robert something else he hadn’t thought about—a Dear John email. It was short and to the point: "Have a nice life with Sharon."

 

1 responding   

回答，回报，响应( respond的现在分词 )； 有反应； 有效果； 有影响

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals. 他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• Responding with a smile, he said, "Well, why don't you?" 他也笑道：“咦，你为什么不说话了？”

2 deleted   

v.删除( delete的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Your name has been deleted from the list. 你的名字已从名单上删掉。
• The offending paragraph was deleted. 令某些人不悦的那段话已经删除。

3 discouraging   

adj.令人泄气的

参考例句：

• It's very discouraging to be sneered at all the time. 成天受嘲讽是很令人泄气的。
• It's discouraging that so many students have failed. 那么多学生考不及格，真令人泄气。

4 investment   

n.投资，投资额；(时间、精力等的)投入

参考例句：

• It took two years before I recouped my investment.我用了两年时间才收回投资。
• The success of the project pivots on investment from abroad.这个工程的成功主要依靠外来投资。

5 deleting   

v.删除( delete的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy. 通过取缔或删除任何有价值的情报来完成的反间谍活动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The term configuration describes moving, adding, or deleting persistent objects. 术语“配置”概括了移动、添加或者删除持久对象。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓