宝钗与不防头的薛蟠吵架
《蒋勋说红楼梦》（176）
一、"你是个不防头的人"，这是宝钗对薛蟠的评价，"不防头"就是没有心机，说话很随便。
1. "You're someone who never guards his tongue"—this was Baochai's assessment of Xue Pan. "Not guarding one's tongue" means being guileless and speaking too freely.
二、薛蟠说："好妹妹，你不用和我闹，我早知道你的心了。从先妈和我说，你这'金'要拣有玉的才可正配。你留心了，见宝玉有那劳什骨子，你自然如今行动护着他。"
2. Xue Pan said: "Dear sister, there's no use quarreling with me. I've long known what's in your heart. Mother told me before that your 'gold locket' must be matched with someone who has jade. You've been watching, and since you've seen Baoyu has that wretched piece of jade, naturally you now take his side in everything."
三、这话也许对今天的女孩子没什么，可在古代，如果说哪个没出嫁的女孩子偷偷爱上了谁，这简直是奇耻大辱。
3. Such words might mean little to a girl today, but in ancient times, suggesting that an unmarried girl secretly loved someone was considered a profound humiliation.
四、其实薛蟠讲这话是真的，前面已经有好多迹象表明宝钗真的想嫁给宝玉，可一个女孩子的隐秘心事就这样被大咧咧地讲出来，她内心肯定难过，所以宝钗在这里是受到很大伤害的。
4. In truth, what Xue Pan said was accurate—there had been many earlier signs that Baochai truly wished to marry Baoyu. But for a girl's secret feelings to be so bluntly revealed, she must have been deeply hurt. Thus, Baochai was grievously wounded here.
五、我想作者也是借薛蟠这个没有头脑的人，把真相讲出来。宝钗这个心机很重的人，偏偏碰到个哥哥是那种完全没有心机的人。
5. I believe the author also used the character of Xue Pan—this thoughtless man—to voice the truth. Baochai, a person of considerable calculation, ironically had a brother completely devoid of guile.
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