欲望都市可以说是发生在纽约曼哈顿四个单身女人身上的故事。她们都事业成功、时髦美丽，虽然在人生际遇和生活态度上各有不同，但却同样开朗乐观，自信满满。她们共享彼此间牢固的友谊，也都面临共同的问题：在这充满欲望和诱惑的都市里，寻找真正的爱情和归宿。

When real people fall down in life, they get right back upand keep on walking.

如果人们在现实生活中跌倒，他们会爬起来，继续前行。

Sometimes a rose is just a rose. 

Jewellery, that's another story.

有时候玫瑰就只是玫瑰 

如果是珠宝…那就另当别论

If a man is over 30 and single, there's something wrong with him. 

It's Darwinian. They're being weeded out from propagating the species. 

What about us?  We're just choosey. 

要是男人超过三十岁还是单身，那他一定有问题，他们在进化过程中被淘汰。

那我们怎么说？  我们只是太挑剔了。

I wondered......were we all just victims of conditioned responses? 

Doomed to repeat the same unconscious relationship patterns? 

Were we all, in fact, just dating... ...the same person overand over again?

我在想，我们是不是条件反射的受害者？

注定要无意识地重复某种感情模式？ 

重复与某种特定类型的人交往？

The only thing worse than being Single in your 30s is being Single in your 20s. 

唯一比三十几岁单身还惨的事，就是二十几岁时孤零零一个人。