女孩子分手后对男友念念不忘，终日沉湎于伤痛之中。数月后的一天，女孩子突然醒悟，于是拿起话筒，再次按下那个曾经烂熟于心的号码。听筒那边，再次想起了熟识的声音：
man: Hello?
woman: It's me.
man: Oh...(silence)how are you?
woman: Look, I was just calling...to tell you...that...(long pause) I'm over you.(hang up)
简单的一句话，却传达出千言万语。Over本来就有完结的含义，往往用于难过的事情。这句I am over you就是My feelings for you are over的意思。
连年的战火结束后，总统向群众宣布：The war is finally over.
安慰正受病魔折磨的朋友，告诉他一切痛苦会很快过去，可以说：It'll all be over soon.
一对闹分手的情侣可向对方说：We're over! 或Our relationship is over!
接下来再来看一封世界上最绝的分手信——也就是小说《Sense and Sensibility》中的 Willoughby威罗比給女主角Marianne玛丽安娜的那封冷血的分手信。
当扭伤了脚踝被威罗比送回家后，玛丽安娜立即爱上了这个年轻英俊的小伙子。于是两人陷入热恋。未曾想威罗比为人不正，根本没有把玛丽安娜的感情真正放在心上。玛丽安娜在伦敦遭遇了威罗比的冷淡后，一封无情的信破灭了她心中的最后一丝希望。威罗比由于金钱而背弃了和玛丽安娜之间的爱，而娶了富家小姐为妻。
那封绝情份额分手信是这样写的：
My Dear Madam,
I have just had the honour of receiving your letter, for which I beg to return my sincere acknowledgements. I am much concerned to find there was anything in my behaviour last night that did not meet your approbation; and though I am quite at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you, I entreat your forgiveness [...]. My esteem for your whole family is very sincere; but if I have been so unfortunate as to give rise to a belief of more than I felt, or meant to express, I shall reproach myself for not having been more guarded in my professions of that esteem. [...] It is with GREat regret that I obey your commands of returning the letters, with which I have been honoured from you, and the lock of hair, which you so obligingly bestowed on me.
I am, dear Madam, Your most obedient humble Servant,
John Willoughby.
信的大意是：我跟你从来没有什么关系，是你自作多情了。最要命的是信中的措辞。信中用字极度谦卑有理，却同时冷酷得叫人不寒而栗。这些字句，好像是写给陌生人的公函，而非旧爱：
had the honour of receiving your letter
beg to return my sincere acknowledgements
anything in my behaviour... that did not meet your approbation
at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you
负心男更把责任都推在了自作多情的女主角身上，这些仍通过委婉的言辞道出：
if I have been so unfortunate as to give rise to a belief of more than I felt, I shall reproach myself for not having been more guarded in my professions of that esteem.
(大意是：假如我对你表现得太有善而引起误会，我深感遗憾。)
