女人香美丽英文人生幸福29篇[23]

　　第二十三章 爱就是相互依存
Track 23 Love is interdependence.
If somebody tells you: “I will love you forever.” Will you believe it?
I don’t think there is any reason not to. We are ready to believe such commitment at the moment, whatever change may happen afterwards. As for the belief in an everlasting¹ love, that’s another thing.
Then you may be asked whether there is such a thing as an everlasting love. I will answer I believe in it. But an everlasting love is not immutable³. You may unswervingly love or be loved by a person. Though love will change its composition with the passage of time, it will not remain the same. In the course of your growth, and as a result of your increased experience, love will become something different to you.
In the beginning, you believe a fervent⁴ love for a person could last indefinitely. By and by, however, fervent gave ways to prosaic⁵. Precisely⁶ because of this change, it became possible for love to last. Then what was meant by an everlasting love when eventually end up in a sort of interdependence. We used to insist on the difference between love and liking⁷. The former seemed much more beautiful than the latter. One day, however, it turns out there’s really no need to make such difference. Liking is actually a sort of love. By the same token, the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love. I wish I could believe there was somebody who love me forever. That, as we all know, too romantic to be true. Instead, there will more often than none be a case of lasting² relationship.

1 everlasting   

adj.永恒的，持久的，无止境的

参考例句：

• These tyres are advertised as being everlasting.广告上说轮胎持久耐用。
• He believes in everlasting life after death.他相信死后有不朽的生命。

2 lasting   

adj.永久的，永恒的；vbl.持续，维持

参考例句：

• The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
• We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。

3 immutable   

adj.不可改变的，永恒的

参考例句：

• Nothing in the world is immutable.世界没有一成不变的东西。
• They free our minds from considering our world as fixed and immutable.它们改变着人们将世界看作是永恒不变的观点。

4 fervent   

adj.热的，热烈的，热情的

参考例句：

• It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。
• Austria was among the most fervent supporters of adolf hitler.奥地利是阿道夫希特勒最狂热的支持者之一。

5 prosaic   

adj.单调的，无趣的

参考例句：

• The truth is more prosaic.真相更加乏味。
• It was a prosaic description of the scene.这是对场景没有想象力的一个描述。

6 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

7 liking   

n.爱好；嗜好；喜欢

参考例句：

• The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
• I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。