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第2章 爱情Love (2)

坚持到底的求婚者,就能赢得姑娘的心。

The last suitor wins the maid.

坚固的爱情不易忘记。

Sound love is not soon forgotten.

旧爱难敌新欢。投入新的情感,就会逃脱失恋的阴影。

One nail / love drives out another.

旧情难忘。

Old love will not be forgotten.

考验人先莫用真情。测试技术先用镀金,后用真金。

Try your skill in gift first, and then in gold.

狂热的爱不会持久。

The love that is too violent will not last long.

离别情更深。

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

怜悯近乎爱情。

Pity is akin to love.

怜悯是加速爱情的手段。

Pity is a level for quickening love.

恋爱开始容易终止难。

A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

恋爱使人重生。

The man in love is born again.

没有肮脏的爱情,也没有美丽的监狱。

No love is foul, no prison fair.

没有金钱,就没有爱情。

No money, no honey.

没有相互尊重,爱情就不能长久。

Without respect, love cannot go far.

眉目传情。

Eyes speak all languages, wait for no letter of introduction.

美酒酿酸醋,爱深恨也深。

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred.

能驾驭感情的人是智者。

He is a wise man that leads passion by the bridle(马缰).

懦夫难赢美女心。

Faint heart never won a fair lady.

贫穷和爱情都难隐瞒。

Poverty and love are hard to hide.

贫穷进门来,爱情跃窗飞。

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies / jumps / leaps / creeps out of the window.

强求的爱情不能持久。

Love that is forced does not last.

情场失意,赌场得意。

Unlucky in love, lucky at play.

情人吵架等于重温爱情。

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.

Lover’s quarrels are the renewing of love.

情人眼里出西施。

Beauty is in the beholder’s eye.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder / gazer.

Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.

Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.

Love comes by looking.

She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome.

求得的爱情固然好,但共鸣产生的爱情更美好。

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

热情是爱情的火焰,燃烧时光芒四射却难于持久。

Zeal is the fire of love, active for duty-burning as it flies.

人们对最爱的人,能说的话最少。

Whom we love best to them we can say least.

如果没有人爱你,肯定你自己有问题。

If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.

伤心之地可以离,心灵创伤无法医。

One may change place but not change the grief.

剩粥易热,旧情易燃。

Old porridge is sooner heated than new made.

失恋总比从来没爱过强。

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

士为知己者行,女为悦己者容。

A gentleman acts on behalf of an understanding friend, as a woman makes herself for her

lover.

天涯无处无芳草。

Plenty of other fish in the sea.

我的爱人在果实累累的小山上有一个葡萄园,让我为她歌唱。

My well-beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. (圣经)

我们的感情是我们的生命;我们靠它们生存,它们供应给我们温暖。

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

无药能治相思病。

No herb will cure love.

物皆有偶。

Every cake hath its make / mate / fellow.

Every Jack has / shall have his Jill / Gill.

希望是情人的精神食粮。

Hope is a lover’s staff.

相见欢,离别苦。

Sorrow is at parting if at meeting three be laughter.

心上人不离口。

Nearest the heart, nearest the mouth.

心心相印,以心相许。

My beloved is mine, and I am his.

眼睛是心灵的门窗。

Light of the body is the eye.

The eye is the mirror of the soul.

The eye is the window of the heart.

The heart’s letter is read in the eyes.

一见钟情。

Love at first sight.

一见钟情的爱情难持久。

Hasty love is soon hot and soon cold.

一朝情义淡,样样不顺眼。

Faults are thick while love is thin.

有爱情就有忠诚。

Where love is there is faith.

有花才有果。

Flowers are the pledges(保证)of fruit.

有缘千里来相会。

Badgad is not remote for a lover.

Love shortens distance.

真正的爱情患难中见。

True love kythe in time of need.

True love shows itself in time of need.

真正的爱情是不会忘记的。

The heart that once truly loves never forgets.

真正的爱情是给,而不是取。

True love is giving, not taking.

真正的爱情永不老。

True love never grows old.

直白的指责胜过奥妙的爱情。忠言逆耳利于行。

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

只有勇者方可配美人。

None but the brave deserves the fair.

忠诚是爱情的桥梁,背叛是友谊的敌人。

As devotion unites lovers, so perfidy(背叛)estranges(疏远)friends.