美麗英文：世界上最美的情書

2021年3月27日星期六 祝福午安 天氣晴朗 氣溫23℃ 美麗英文 今天上午考完了計算機，接下來就是我的英語專業八級的考試了，希望我好好努力，好好學習英文，好好準備自己的出國留學的資本。 今天上午考試，遇見一個插曲，我看到學校叫來了120救護車，因爲考試過程中有個女生暈倒了，我是10點40第二場考試的，她第一場考試就暈倒了，剛好我看到她被抬了出來，送去了醫院。 我當時就在想這個考試到底多難？多麼折磨人，可以把考試考暈倒了，我今天體驗了一把，果然不簡單，我是會做的，都做了，不會做的，都空白。只希望60分合格吧，即使不合格，也沒有關係，人生完美的事太少，我不能什麼都想要。 現在好好整理我的心情，好好準備我的下一場偉大的考試，好好學習英語，這是祝福我一生的。讀讀美文，讀讀讓心情愉悅的文字，人生就真的格外美好了。 那些詩意盎然的情愫 緣分不是人海中兩個人的擦身，緣分是不可能的相遇。比如我是空中的鳥，你是林海的豹，只是我們碰巧相愛。 Love is not about running into each other in crowds. Love is an impossible meeting. For example, I am a bird flying in sky, you are a leopard in forest. We just fall in love accidentally. Every man is a poet when he is in love. 每個戀愛中的人都是詩人。 John Keats to Fanny Brawne 約翰·濟慈致芬妮·勃勞恩 Sweetest Fanny, I have had a walk this morning with a book in my hand, but as usual I have been occupied with nothing but you: I wish I could say in an agreeable manner. I am tormented day and night. They talk of my going to Italy. It's certain I shall never recover if I am to be so long separate from you: yet with all this devotion to you I cannot persuade myself into any confidence of you… You are to me an object intensely desirable—the air I breathe in a room empty of you in unhealthy. I am not the same to you—no—you can wait—you have a thousand activities—you can be happy without me. Any party, anything to fill up the day has been enough. How have you passed this month? Who have you smiled with? All this may seem savage in me. You do no feel as I do—you do not know what it is to love—one day you may—your time is not come… I cannot live without you, and not only you but chaste you; virtuous you. The Sun rises and sets, the day passes, and you follow the bent of your inclination to a certain extent—you have no conception of the quantity of miserable feeling that passes through me in a day—Be serious! Love is not a plaything—and again do not write unless you can do it with a crystal conscience. I would sooner die for want of you than— Yours forever J. Keats 【名人小課堂】 約翰·濟慈（John Keats，1795—1821），英國詩人，浪漫派主要成員，被推崇爲歐洲浪漫主義運動的傑出代表，與雪萊、拜倫齊名。自幼喜愛文學，由於家境窘困，不滿16歲就離校學醫，後棄醫從文，最終成爲當時英國文學界的一顆明珠。代表作《伊莎貝拉》《夜鶯頌》《秋頌》等。 致我最親愛的女孩： 今早，我手捧書本獨自漫步，但一如往常的是，我心中一直想着你，而且只有你：我多希望自己能說得合情合理。我日夜不得安寧。他們在談論我去意大利的事。若要與你分開這麼久，我定永遠不得康復：即便我用盡全身力氣來愛你，可我依然無法向你表達我的真實情感…… 你之於我，是如此渴望得到的東西——你若不在，屋子裏的空氣都變得污濁。可我之於你，卻並非如此——不——你可以等——你有成千上萬種娛樂方式——沒有我，你依然過得快樂。任何聚會，只要能讓你消磨時光便已足夠。 這個月，你是怎樣度過的呢？誰曾博你一笑呢？這一切對我，都如此殘忍。你定不能感受我所感受到的東西——你不懂什麼是去愛——可總有一天，你會明白——那一天尚未到來…… 我離不開你，純潔的你，善良的你。日出日落，歲月匆匆，你放浪形骸，隨心所欲——我每日所受之苦，你無從得知——認真點吧！愛情可不是兒戲——我依然要說，若你並非心明如鏡，就不要回信。我寧願因爲沒有你而死去，也不願—— 你永遠的 約翰·濟慈 【約翰·濟慈——】 Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know. 美就是真，真就是美，這是人生在世所知道的一切，也是需要知道的一切。 Robert Burns to Ellison Begbie 羅伯特·彭斯致埃莉森·貝格比 Mar.3, 1785 Dear Ellison, I have often thought it a peculiarly unlucky circumstance in love, that though in every other situation in life telling the truth is not only the safest, but actually by far the easiest way of proceeding, a lover is never under greater difficulty in acting, nor ever more puzzled for expression than when his passion is sincere and his intentions honorable. I do not think that it is very difficult for a person of ordinary capacity to talk of love and fondness which are not felt, and to make vows of constancy and fidelity which are never intended to be performed, if he be villain enough to practice such detestable conduct; but to a man whose heart glows with the principles of integrity and truth, and who sincerely loves a woman of amiable person, uncommon refinement of sentiment, and purity of manners, from my own feelings at this present moment, courtship is a task indeed. There is such a number of foreboding fears and distrustful anxieties crowd into my mind when I am in your company, or when I sit down to write to you, that what to speak or what to write I am altogether at a loss. There is one rule which I have hitherto practiced and which I shall invariably keep with you and that is, honestly to tell you the plain truth. There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be acted by any one in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love. No, my dear E., I shall never endeavor to gain your favor by such detestable practices. If you will be so good and so generous as to admit me for your partner, your companion, your bosom friend through life, there is nothing on this side of eternity shall give me greater transport, but I shall never think of purchasing your hand by any arts unworthy of a man—and, I will add—of a Christian. There is one thing, my dear, which I earnestly request of you and it is this, that you should soon either put an end to my hopes by a peremptory refusal or cure me of my fears by a generous consent. It would oblige me much if you would send me a line or two when convenient. I shall only add further that if a behavior regulated (though perhaps but very imperfectly) by the rules of honor and virtue of a heart devoted to love and esteem you, and an earnest endeavor to promote your happiness—if these are qualities you would wish in a friend, in a husband, I hope you shall ever find them in your real friend and sincere lover. 【名人小課堂】 羅伯特·彭斯（Robert Burns，1759—1796），蘇格蘭農民詩人，復興了蘇格蘭民歌，並將其發展壯大；他的詩歌充滿了激進的民主、自由的思想，在英國文學史上佔有特殊重要的地位。代表作《兩隻狗》《一枝紅紅的玫瑰》《友誼天長地久》等。 親愛的埃莉森： 我總是在想，儘管在生活的其他方面，實話實說是唯一可靠的辦法，其實也是到目前爲止最容易的方法，但在愛情裏它卻尤爲不幸，你的愛人若在你面前演戲，簡直易如反掌，更別說他那不軌的意圖表面還披着一層看似善良的外衣。 我不認爲讓平庸之人虛情假意地談論愛情和喜歡是件難事，要讓他對你許下天長地久、忠貞不渝的空頭諾言也不算難，只要他就是如此這般的混蛋；可是，對一個誠摯的男人來說，若是他愛上了一名溫和的女子，一個多愁善感、行爲端莊的女子，那麼，此刻，追求她絕不是件容易的事。每當和你在一起，我的內心便充滿了無數未知的恐懼和憂愁，每當我坐下來給你寫信，我的腦海就全然的糊塗，不知該對你說些什麼、寫些什麼。 我一直堅持着一個原則，並且要讓它在你身上實現，那就是要對你坦誠相待。虛僞和謊言的手段太過卑鄙無恥，我竟沒想到這些會被用在高尚而仁厚的貞潔愛情之中。不，我親愛的埃莉森，我絕不會以如此可惡的方式博取你的愛意。若你大發慈悲接受了我，讓我陪伴你，讓我成爲你一生的紅顏知己，那麼，此般永恆，將是我至上的狂喜，只是，我從未想過以小人之道贏得你的芳心——更何況，我還是一名高尚的基督徒。 只是有一點，親愛的，我真心地請求你，要麼斷然拒絕我，結束我的希望；要麼慨然接受我，撫平我的憂慮。 若你能在閒時回我以三言兩語，我定感激不盡。我只想再補充一點，我帶着美德和敬意來愛你，尊重你，而我的行爲也受這充滿美德和榮譽感的品德支配（也許沒有完全支配）——如果這些都是你對朋友、丈夫所寄望的，那麼，我希望總有一天，你會在你的朋友和忠實愛人身上找到這些優點。 1785年3月3日 【羅伯特·彭斯——】 But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever. 誰見她就會愛她，誰愛她就會永遠愛她。 那些旋律流淌的愛戀 To live in a world without you is more painful than any punishment. Do you know that no one can replace you in my heart? 生活在沒有你的世界裏，比任何一種懲罰都要痛苦萬分。你知道嗎？對我而言，你是任何人都無法取代的。 Beethoven to the “Innortal Beloved” (Ⅰ) 貝多芬致“永恆的愛人”（1） In the morning, July 6, 1812 My angel, my all, my very self—only a few words today and at that with your pencil—not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon—what an useless waste of time. Why this deep sorrow where necessity speaks—can our love endure except through sacrifices—except through not demanding everything—can you change it that you are not wholly mine, I not wholly thine. Oh, God! Look out into the beauties of nature and comfort yourself with that which must be—love demands everything and that very justly—that it is with me so far as you are concerned, and you with me. If we were wholly united you would feel the pain of it as little as I! Now a quick change to things internal from things external. We shall surely see each other; moreover, I cannot communicate to you the observations I have made during the last few days touching my own life—if our hearts were always close together I would make none of the kind. My heart is full of many things to say to you—Ah!—there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all—cheer up—remain my true, only treasure, my all as I am yours; the gods must send us the rest that which shall be best fot us. Your faithful Ludwig 【名人小課堂】 路德維希·貝多芬（Ludwig van Beethoven，1770—1827），德意志古典音樂作曲家、鋼琴演奏家，維也納古典樂派代表人之一。他一共創作了9首編號交響曲、35首鋼琴奏鳴曲、16首絃樂四重奏、10部小提琴奏鳴曲、1部歌劇、2部彌撒等等。這些作品對音樂發展有着深遠影響。在華文世界，貝多芬被尊稱爲“樂聖”。 我的天使，我的一切，我的真實自我——今天我只寫下了隻言片語，而且還是用你的鉛筆——我的住處要明天才能落實——這樣完全就是虛度光陰。在我們彼此需要時，爲什麼總要面對如此深刻的苦楚——我們的愛情，經歷了犧牲以及那些無法求全的東西，還能堅持多久——你有辦法改變這樣的現實嗎？你，不完全是我的；我，不完全是你的。 哦，天哪！看看外面美麗的大自然！

英文原文配中文譯文，賞心悅目。