2023年9月12日 星期二

“you’re two-timing me with Cervantes.”

 It was a measure of that devotion that one day, while she was immersed in translating “Don Quixote,” the phone rang. It was Mr. García Márquez, sounding like a jealous husband. “I hear,” he said, “you’re two-timing me with Cervantes.”


Meaning of two-timing in Englishto deceive someone you are having a relationship with by having a secret sexual relationship with someone else at the same time: I ended the relationship when I found out he was two-timing me.

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