5．情为何物

LOVE :The irresistible¹ desire to be irresistibly² desired

爱情：一种无法遏制的渴望，渴望得到难以克制的爱。

——Robert Frost 弗罗斯特

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow

爱情是朵花，你要等它开放

——John Lennon 列侬

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides

爱与被爱就像前身后背都能感爱到太阳的温暖

——David viscott 维斯科特

We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh

如果跟一个人在一起从未有过欢乐，你就不会真正爱上他

——William Sloan Coffin³ 科芬

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another

爱就是把我们的幸福融入另一个人的幸福之中

——G. W. Von Leibnitz 莱布尼茨

Love is the only gold

爱情是惟一的金子

——Lord Alfred Tennyson 丁尼生

With love ,you should go ahead and take risk of getting hurt bexause love is an amazing feeling

爱情也许会使你受到伤害但是你应该去爱，因为爱情是一种神奇的感觉

——Britney Spears 布兰妮

Love is the difficult realization⁴ that something other than oneself is real

爱情让你终于认识到除了自身之外还有件事是那样真真切切。

——Iris Murdoch 默多克

Lov eand dmagic have a great deal in common .They enrich the soul ,delight the heart .And they both take practice

爱情和魔术有许多共同之处；两者都能充实心灵、愉悦内心，而且都需要练习

——Nora Roberts 罗伯茨

Love is not just looking at each other ,it’s looking in the same direction

爱情就像贺周率——自然，非理性、却至关重要

——Antoine de Saint-Exupery 霍夫曼

Love is like pi-natural ,irrational⁵, and VERY impoutant

爱是一种许多人经历过但只有少数人享受过的情感

——George Jean Nathan 内森

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence

爱情是想象对智慧的胜利

——H. L. Mencken 门背

The reduction of the universe to a single being ,the expansion of a single being even to God ,this is love

把宇宙浓缩成一个人，把一个人想象成上帝——这就是爱

——Victor Hugo 雨果

Love’s a disease .But curable

爱是一种病，但却能治愈

——Rose Macaulay 麦考利

You call it Madness ,but I call it Love

你可以称它为疯狂，但我称之为爱情

——Don Byas 拜厄斯

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others ,and the delight in the recognition

爱就是在别人身上找到我们自己，就是这种自我发现带来的喜悦

——Alexander Smith 史密斯

Love is a game that two can play and both win

爱情是一场游戏，两人参加并双双获胜

——Eva Gabor 加博尔

Love is like an hour glass ,with the heart filling up as the brain empties

爱就像沙漏，心里满了，头脑就空了。

——Jules Renoud 雷诺德

True love doesn’s have a happy ending ,because true love never ends

真正的爱情没有幸福的结局，因为真正的爱情从有会结束

If I know what love is ,it is because of you

如果我知道什么是爱，那就是因为你。

——Herman Hesse 赫思

Lov edose not begin and end the way we seem to think it does .Love is a battle ,love is a war ;love is a growing up

爱不会像我们想的那样开始或结束。爱是战斗，爱是成长

——James Baldwin 鲍德温

The only love worthy⁶ of a name is unconditional⁷

名符其实的爱就是无条件的爱

——John Powell 鲍威尔

Love has no price .It is only love if it is free

爱情是无价的。只有不标价的爱才是真爱

——Melody Beattie 贝蒂

The sweetest joy ,the wildest woe⁸ is love

最甜蜜的快乐、最钻心的痛苦，就是爱情

——Pearl Bailey 贝利

We define love as a delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of his value and development as much as one’s own

我们把爱情定义为一种和另一个人相处时的愉悦，一种像肯定自己的样对他人价值和发展的肯定。

——Rollo May 梅

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out

爱情是两个人关系中除去自私之后剩下的部分

——Nick Richardson 理查森

Love is like a violin .The music may stop now and then ,but the strings⁹ remain forever

爱好双小提琴。音乐可以时停时起，而琴弦伴琴，永不分离

——June Masters Bacher 巴彻

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven

爱就仿佛是看到了天堂

——Karen Sunde 森德

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia

恋爱就是始终处于一种陶醉状态

——H. L. Mencken 门肯

Love means the body ,the soul ,the life ,the entire being .We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood ,we breathe love as we breathe air ,we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts

爱意味着身体、灵魂、生活和整个生命。我们感觉到爱就仿佛感觉到血液的温暖，我们呼吸着爱就仿佛呼吸着空气，我们拥有爱就仿佛拥有思想。

——Guy De Maupassant 莫泊桑

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense

坠入爱河只不过是把想像力从瓶子中释放出来，把判断力装进去

——Helen Rowland 罗兰

Lov eis a sweet torment¹⁰

爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨

Love is a sweet tyranny ,because the lover endures his toument willingly

爱情是甜蜜的暴君，爱人心甘情愿受他的折磨

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly¹¹ of the wise

爱情是愚者的智慧、智者的愚蠢。

——Samuel Johnson 约翰逊