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发表于 2009-3-5 15:54
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My reply to a friend's blog--how to say love
I've just found out that we can speak English in WW. It's fantastic. Here I'd like to share with you my delights of learning English.
My friend, who's apt at Chinese literature, once wrote the following blog:
2006-04-03 | How to say love 昨天和同事讨论西方人与中国人表达爱的不同。
同事欣赏西方人的热情，直接，“I LOVE YOU”,“FALL IN LOVE”,不需拖泥带水，不要柔肠百结，直接了当，干脆利落。
我爱极中国人的婉约和暧昧。抬头看看月亮，低头会思念我家乡；看一眼流水落花，心中就勾起闲情无数。让老外如何理解“我本一心向明月，奈何明月照沟渠”？又怎么揣测“留得残荷听雨声”？惟其暧昧，让人愈费思量，顾盼辗转间泄漏出的那些微的情愫，似乎更能击中心中最柔软的地方。
呵呵，当然谁都无法说服谁了。不管是“I LOVE YOU”,还是“相思欲寄无从寄，画个圈儿替”，只要你能让你的他明了这番情意，不就OK了？
愿意吃萝卜，还是愿意吃青菜，只要能添饱肚子，好像都一样哦。
Here below is my reply to her blog:
In reference with my friend's blog:
You can say Westerners are mostly candid or straightforward in expressing love. However, their expressions are far more than"I love you", "fall in love with you" , "Got a crush on you","I'm atracted to you" or "I'm crazy about you",etc. Since you quoted the Chinese poem " 我本一心向明月，奈何明月照沟渠”“留得残荷听雨声”, which I appreciate too, I'd like to quote an English poem as well. The fisrt one I am thinking of is no other than Shakespeare, whose poem I believe will touch you, sooner or later, bit by bit.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance , or nature’s changing course, untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
by William Shakespeare
能否把你比作夏日璀璨？
你却比炎夏更可爱温存；
狂风摧残五月花蕊娇妍，
夏天匆匆离去毫不停顿。
苍天明眸有时过于灼热，
金色脸容往往蒙上阴翳；
一切优美形象不免褪色，
偶然摧折或自然地老去。
而你如仲夏繁茂不凋谢，
秀雅风姿将永远翩翩；
死神无法逼你气息奄奄，
你将永生于不朽诗篇。
只要人能呼吸眼不盲，
这诗和你将千秋流芳。
Hope you will be resonated..
