1.Napoleon Bonaparte

1.拿破仑·波拿巴

I loved you some time ago; since then I feel that I love you a thousand times better. Ah, let me see some of your faults; be less beautiful, less graceful¹, less tender, less good.

我不久前爱上你，自那以后，我对你的爱更增千倍。哎，真希望看到你的美中不足。再少几分甜美，少几分优雅，少几分妩媚，少几分姣好吧。

But never be jealous and never shed tears. Your tears send me out of my mind and they set my very blood on fire.

但绝不要嫉妒，不要流泪。你的眼泪使我神魂颠倒，也使我热血沸腾。

2.Mark Twain

2.马克·吐温

I do love you, Livy...as the dew loves the flowers; as the birds love the sunshine; as the wavelets love the breeze; as mothers love their first-born; as memory loves old faces; as the yearning² tides love the moon; as the angels love the pure in heart...

我真的爱你，莉薇……就像露珠爱鲜花，鸟儿爱阳光，微波爱轻风，母亲爱她们的第一个孩子，我爱你，就像记忆青睐昔日熟悉的面孔，思念的潮水迷恋月亮，天使珍爱纯洁的心灵……

Take my kiss and my benediction³, and try to be reconciled to the fact that I am.

请接受我的亲吻和我的祝福，要接受这个事实：我爱你。

3.Ronald Reagan

3.罗纳德·里根

Dear First Lady, this is the day, the day that marks 31 years of such happiness as comes to few men. I told you once that it was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

亲爱的第一夫人，到今天为止，我们共同度过了31年的幸福时光，这是世上少数男人才享有的荣幸。我曾告诉过你，我的婚姻就像一个青少年对婚姻所怀的梦想那样美好，一直以来都是如此。

I more than love you, I'm not whole without you. You are life itself to me. Happy Anniversary & thank you for 31 wonderful years.

你是我的至爱，没有你，我是不完整的。你就是我的生命本身。结婚纪念日快乐，感谢你31年来的美好陪伴！

4.Charlotte Bront

4.夏洛蒂·勃朗特

Monsieur, the poor do not need a great deal to live on - they ask only the crumbs⁴ of bread which fall from the rich men's table - but if they are refused these crumbs - they die of hunger - No more do I need a great deal of affection from those I love.

先生，穷人不需要太多来活命，他们只祈求富人餐桌上掉落的一点面包屑，但如果他们连这点面包屑都被拒绝给予，他们就会饿死。我渴望从我爱之人那里获得的感情也不过如此。

I would not know what to do with a whole and complete friendship - I am not accustomed to it - but you showed a little interest in me in days gone by when I was your pupil in Brussels - and I cling to the preservation⁵ of this little interest - I cling to it as I would cling on to life.

一段完整而完满的友情会让我不知所措，我并不习惯于拥有它，但是，如果您对我能表现出哪怕一点点关爱，就像在布鲁塞尔我还是您的学生时那样，我就会紧紧抓住这一点点的关爱，我依附于此，就像我依附于生命。

5.Albert Einstein

5.阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦

My dearest Margarita, I haven't received your letter. I have thought agonizingly how can we solve this intractable problem. People said that I am very smart, but I'm helpless with it.

我最亲爱的玛加丽达: 我收不到你的来信，我苦苦思索如何才能解决这个棘手的问题。人们都说我聪明无比，可我对此事却束手无策。

Just recently I washed my head by myself, but not with the greatest success; I am not as careful as you are, but everything here reminds me of you.

最近我自己洗了一次头发，不是很成功；我没有你那么细心，这里的一切都让我想起你。

Men are living now just the way they were before, as if we didn't have a new, all-overshadowing danger to deal with. Be greeted and kissed, if this letter reaches you, and the devil take anyone who intercepts⁶ it.

人们还是像以前一样生活，好像那个新的、笼罩在我们上空的危险阴影不存在一样。如果这封信能抵达你那儿，愿它问候你、亲吻你。愿恶魔带走拦截我们通信的人。

6.George Bernard Shaw

6.萧伯纳

The weather has frowned; but Fortune has smiled. Ten splendid things have happened:

天气不好，可是命运之神却向我微笑。我遇到了十桩得意的事情：

1. a letter from Ellen Terry.

一、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

2. a check for my Chicago royalties⁷ from Arms and the Man.

二、接到从芝加哥寄来的一张《武器和武士》版税汇票；

3. a letter from Ellen Terry.

三、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

4. the rolling away of the clouds from the difficult 2nd act of my new play, leaving the view clear and triumphant⁸ right on to the curtain.

四、我已经在我的新剧本的第二幕里，打破难关，拨开云雾见青天了；

5. a letter from Ellen Terry.

五、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

6. a beautiful sunset bicycle ride over the hills and far away, thinking of Ellen Terry.

六、看见美丽的落日，在遥远的山边坠下，心里想念着爱兰·黛丽；

7. a letter from Ellen Terry.

七、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

8. a letter from Ellen Terry.

八、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

9. a letter from Ellen Terry.

九、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

10. a letter from Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Eleanor Ellenest Terry.

十、收到爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰兰、爱兰兰兰·黛丽一封信。

7.John Keats

7.约翰·济慈

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me.

没有你我无法存活。我忘却了一切，只想着要与你再见。我的生命似乎就此终止，没有更远的未来。你占据了我的一切。

I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving ….I have been astonished that men could die martyrs⁹ for religion - I have shudder¹⁰'d at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my religion - love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you.

我有一种感觉，就在这一刻我似乎正在消融……我曾惊讶于有人会为宗教而牺牲，我曾一想到这就战栗不已。现在我不再为此战栗了。我也可以为我的宗教牺牲。爱就是我的宗教，我可以为它而死，我可以为你而死。

My creed¹¹ is love and you are its only tenet - you have ravish'd me away by a power I cannot resist.

我的信经就是爱，而你就是它唯一的信条。你用我无法抵抗的力量将我彻底摧毁。