But the times were different. In the past, family letters were primarily written by strong men, who had left home, for their fragile wives whom they had left at home or their aged parents.
不過時代不同了，從前的家書，總是出門在外的那個強壯的男子漢寫給他留在家中的嬌弱的妻子或年高的父母，不能報憂也不必報憂。