情人节佳句赏析

 　　爱情是一个永恒的话题：有人在爱情里找到幸福，有人在爱情里看到伤口;有人欣喜若狂，有人伤心落泪;有人站在爱情的十字路口找不到方向。几千年来很多小说家、诗人、哲学家等都通过文字来表达过自己对爱情的感悟，在情人节到来之际，我们一起来欣赏一下这些优美的语句吧!

　　Authors, poets and playwrights¹ have been trying to capture love in words for thousands of years. Their work speaks to the enduring power of love across the ages of human history. Check out this collection of quotes about love from some of the world's most famous romantics.

　　Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

　　- Aristotle

　　Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

　　- Lao Tzu

　　My bounty² is as boundless³ as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.

　　- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

　　How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

　　- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

　　Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering⁴. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

　　- Henry Ward⁵ Beecher

　　Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

　　- Anais Nin

　　Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

　　- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

　　Love has no desire but to fulfill⁶ itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires; To melt and be like a running brook⁷ that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully⁸.

　　- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

　　The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

　　-Helen Keller

　　Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

　　- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

　　Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

　　- Zora Neale Hurston

　　Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

　　- Leo Tolstoy

　　Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts⁹ away.

　　- Dorothy Parker

　　I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

　　- Alice Walker

　　I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly¹⁰, without complexities¹¹ or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

　　- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII"

1 playwrights   

n.剧作家( playwright的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We're studying dramatic texts by sixteenth century playwrights. 我们正在研究16 世纪戏剧作家的戏剧文本。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Hung-chien asked who the playwrights were. 鸿渐问谁写的剧本。 来自汉英文学 - 围城

2 bounty   

n.慷慨的赠予物，奖金；慷慨，大方；施与

参考例句：

• He is famous for his bounty to the poor.他因对穷人慷慨相助而出名。
• We received a bounty from the government.我们收到政府给予的一笔补助金。

3 boundless   

adj.无限的；无边无际的；巨大的

参考例句：

• The boundless woods were sleeping in the deep repose of nature.无边无际的森林在大自然静寂的怀抱中酣睡着。
• His gratitude and devotion to the Party was boundless.他对党无限感激、无限忠诚。

4 flickering   

adj.闪烁的，摇曳的，一闪一闪的

参考例句：

• The crisp autumn wind is flickering away. 清爽的秋风正在吹拂。
• The lights keep flickering. 灯光忽明忽暗。

5 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

6 fulfill   

vt.履行，实现，完成；满足，使满意

参考例句：

• If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了，你就要履行你的诺言。
• This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。

7 brook   

n.小河，溪；v.忍受，容让

参考例句：

• In our room we could hear the murmur of a distant brook.在我们房间能听到远处小溪汩汩的流水声。
• The brook trickled through the valley.小溪涓涓流过峡谷。

8 joyfully   

adv. 喜悦地, 高兴地

参考例句：

• She tripped along joyfully as if treading on air. 她高兴地走着，脚底下轻飘飘的。
• During these first weeks she slaved joyfully. 在最初的几周里，她干得很高兴。

9 darts   

n.掷飞镖游戏；飞镖( dart的名词复数 )；急驰，飞奔v.投掷，投射( dart的第三人称单数 )；向前冲，飞奔

参考例句：

• His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece. 他将掷镖奖杯放在壁炉顶上最显著的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I never saw so many darts in a bodice! 我从没见过紧身胸衣上纳了这么多的缝褶！ 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 straightforwardly   

adv.正直地

参考例句：

• He hated her straightforwardly, making no effort to conceal it. 他十分坦率地恨她，从不设法加以掩饰。 来自辞典例句
• Mardi, which followed hard on its heels, was another matter. Mardi begins straightforwardly. 紧跟着出版的《玛地》，却是另一回事。《玛地》开始时平铺直叙。 来自辞典例句

11 complexities   

复杂性(complexity的名词复数)； 复杂的事物

参考例句：

• The complexities of life bothered him. 生活的复杂使他困惑。
• The complexities of life bothered me. 生活的杂乱事儿使我心烦。