我们俄国人却用些重大的问题来装饰爱情，且选择了其中最无趣的部分。

We Russians decorate our loves with these momentous questions, and select the most uninteresting of them, too.

当初玛德琳之所以选择英文专业，主要是出于最纯洁也是最无趣的原因：因为她喜欢读书。

Madeleine had become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.