Source: http://news.hkheadline.com/dailynews/headline_news_detail_columnist.asp?id=243658§ion_name=wtt&kw=126
L ast week I saw a middle-aged woman pick up each and every banana from the shelf. I wanted to buy some bananas but she was in my way (expression that means blocking me), so I decided to buy my other things first. But when I returned to the fruit section after buying all my other things, she was still indecisively touching all the bananas. I almost went bananas but then I decided she was bananas. To "go bananas" is a slang expression that means to get very angry. It can also mean to go crazy. But if someone is bananas, it means that person is crazy.
I am indecisive as to what I should do this coming Monday, July 1, which is the 16th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. Should I go to the morning flag-raising ceremony in Bauhinia Square? Maybe Longhair Leung Kwok-hung will throw bananas at Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Should I join the annual July 1 protest march in the afternoon? Or should I go to the celebration events organized by the pro-establishment camp to compete with the protest march? If I go to the protest march, people will say I belong to the pro-democracy camp. If I go to the celebration events, people will say I belong to the pro-establishment camp. My indecisiveness (noun) is driving me nuts (making me irritated or annoyed). Maybe I should just stay home and tell myself I belong to the do-nothing camp.
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朋友說我優柔寡斷（indecisive，形容詞），作決定時，總拿不定主意。在餐廳用膳，所有朋友都決定要吃甚麼，唯獨我看着餐牌猶疑不決（indecisively，副詞）。不過，我在超市不時見到有人比我更優柔寡斷（indecisive），他們決定買哪一個生果之前，總會從貨架拿起每一個橙或蘋果或香蕉，細看良久，逐一敲打手中生果。
上周我見到一個中年女人，將貨架上的每梳蕉逐一提起檢視。我也想買些香蕉，但她正擋在我前面（in my way），我決定先買別的東西，當我買完其他物品後，回到生果部，發現她還猶疑不決（indecisively）摸着香蕉。我差點要發火（went bananas），但我認定她一定是傻（bananas）的。Go bananas是俚語說法，意即非常生氣，也可解作要發瘋了。但若說someone is bananas，是形容那人是瘋癲。
這個周一、七月一日，便是香港回歸十六周年紀念，我當天要做甚麼，現在還是猶疑未決（indecisive）。我應該早上去金紫荊廣場看升旗典禮麼？或許長毛梁國雄會向特首梁振英擲蕉。我應該在下午參加那一年一度的七一示威遊行麼？還是我該去那些親建制陣營為了抗衡遊行而舉辦的慶祝活動？要是我去了示威遊行，別人會說我屬於泛民派；若我去了慶祝活動，別人便會說我屬於親建制陣營。我的優柔寡斷（indecisiveness，名詞）快要把我逼瘋了（driving me nuts）。或許，我應該安坐家中，告訴自己是屬於「游手好閒」陣營。mickchug@gmail.com
中譯:七刻
Michael Chugani 褚簡寧