中英文对照《名家眼里的爱》

　　对于爱这个抽象而感性的东西，不同的人有不同的理解。下面，我们来看看名家们是如何理解爱的。

　　Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

　　爱不仅仅坐在那里，像块石头，而是像面包一样被做出来的，自始至终创造，不断更新。

　　URSULA K. LE GUIN, b.1929

　　Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

　　爱由付出自己和分享他的快乐组成。

　　EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (1688-1772)

　　Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its ovn, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fail.

　　爱可以天长地久并仁慈;爱不嫉妒;爱不夸耀，爱不吹捧;爱不粗鲁行事，爱不索求，不挑衅，不思邪;不因不公而喜悦，但却为真理而欢欣;爱承担一切，相信一切，希望一切，忍耐一切。爱从不失败。

　　1 CORINTHIANS 13;4-8

　　Love is a plant of tenderest growth: treat it well, take thought for it and it may grow strong and perfume your whole life.

　　爱是一种最娇嫩的植物：善待她，关照她，她会长得强壮，让你的整个生命都充满芬芳。

　　FRANK HARRIS (1856-1951)

　　Love is... one thing you can't give away - it comes baack to you.

　　爱出者爱返，福往者福来。

　　TRADITIONAL

　　Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

　　那些深爱的人永远不会变老，他们可能死于老龄，却依然年轻。

　　SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO (1855-1934)

　　Love between the very young is touching. Love between the very old is glory.

　　年轻人之间的爱是感动，老年人之间的爱是壮丽。

　　PAM BROWN, b. 1928

　　One does not remember the flowers or the comliments. One remembers standing at an upstairs window staring dowm the evening-shadowed street waiting for him to turn the corner.

　　她不记得那些鲜花或赞美声。她只记得在楼上窗前的站立，凝视着被夜幕笼罩的街道，等待他出现在街角。

　　PAM BROWN, b. 1928

　　Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no dashing of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.

　　爱的.忍耐没有边界，爱的信任没有终点，爱的希望不会破灭，爱比任何事物都长久。事实上，当其他所有的一切都趴下时，爱依然挺立。

　　1 CORINTHIANS 13: 1-2, 4-7

　　Love is a symbol of eternity, it wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

　　爱是个永恒的象征，她擦去所有时间的痕迹，摧毁所有开始的记忆以及对死亡的恐惧。

　　MADAME DE STAEL (1766-1817)

　　There is only one terminal dignity - love... It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

　　爱是唯一的终极品格... 可能是我们生前的最后一瞥。

　　HELEN HAYES (1900-1993)

　　Love - the most permanent of human emotions.

　　爱是最持久的情感。

　　STUART AND LINDA MACFARLANE

　　Love is something eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence.