Thus however enamored literati might be, in the face of marriage and career, the vast majority were not too averse to giving up on love. The few who were really prepared to "exchange the vanity of fame and fortune for a life of wine and song" did not even include Liu Yong, the writer of the afore-going lines.
所以儘管文人如何多情，面對婚姻與仕途，大多也不吝惜放棄愛情；能「忍把浮名，換了淺斟低唱」的，連這首詞的作者柳永都做不到。