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第33章 世间真情(15)

What about love?In a relationship of deep love,allthe sharing that we discussed above are taken for granted.But love transcends allthis.During love,we are attached with a particular person,while in friendship,one may have many friends.A loving relationship makes one so much attached to the other,that one gets pained if his/her beloved is hurt!Love also involves a physicalelement.Friendship does not have that.This is a vitaldifference.Nature gives us love so that the species can go forward.Nature does not give us friendship.

Your heart beats willnever increase in anticipation of meeting your friend.[C]You willnot lie awake at night thinking about your friend.You willnot feeltotally lost,if you don't meet your friend for a few days.You willnot have dreams in your eyes thinking about your friend.But in love,you willdo allthis and much more.lndeed,there is no comparison between love and friendship.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析 Sentence Structures

A If we care for a person,if we are aIways ready to heIp that person and if we share most of our thoughts with a person,they are our good friends.

如果我们关心一个人,如果我们总是乐于帮助那个人,如果我们总是和他分享自己的想法,他们就是我们的好朋友。

三个if引导条件状语从句构成排比句式。

B The friendship is so deep and the reIationship is so intimate,that most of the things are automatically understood by our friends.

友谊是如此的深,并且它们的关系如此紧密,大多数的事情都被我们的朋友自动理解。

so……that……如此……以至于……。例如:He was so fat that he

couldn't get through the door.他胖得无法通过这门。

C You willnot lie awake at night thinking about your friend.

你不会躺在床上夜不能寐想你的朋友。

thinking about your friend现在分词作伴随状语,表示动作与lie awake同时发生。

Motherly and Fatherly Love 母爱和父爱

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母爱的是无条件的,温柔细腻,相比之下父爱显得严肃深沉。但父爱和母爱一样的伟大,只是他们爱的方式不同。正是因为这样的父爱和母爱,我们才完好并健康地成长。

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Motherly love by its very nature is unconditional.Mother loves the newborn infant because it is her child,not because the child has fuIfilled any speci flc condition,or lived up to any speci flc expectation.Unconditionallove corresponds in one of the deepest longings,not only of the child,but of every human being;on the other hand,to be loved because of one's merit,because one deserves it,always leaves doubt:maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me,maybe this or that--there is always a fear that love could disappear.Furthermore,'deserved"love easily leaves a bitter feeling that one is not loved for oneself,that one is loved only because one pleases,that one is,in the last analysis,not loved at allbut used.[A]No wonder that we allcling to the longing for motherly love,as children and also as adults.

The relationship to father is quite different.Mother is the home we come from,she is nature,soiI,the ocean;father does not represent any such naturaI home.He has little connection with the child in the first years of his life,and his importance for the child in this early period cannot be compared with that of mother.But while father does not represent the naturalworld,he represents the other pole of human existence:the world of thought,of man-made things,of law and order,of discipIine,of traveland adventure.[B]Father is the one who teaches the child,who shows him the road into the world.Fatherly love is conditionallove.Its principle is"I love you because you fulflllmy expectations,because you do your duty,because you are like me."In conditionalfatherly love we flnd,as with unconditionalmotherly love,a negative and a positive aspect.[C]The negative aspect is the very fact that fatherly love has to be deserved,that it can be lost if one does not do what is expected.The positive side is equally important.Since his love is conditional,I can do something to acquire it,I can work for it;his love is not outside of my controlas motherly love is.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析 Sentence Structures

A No wonder that we allcling to the longing for motherly love,as children and also as adults.

难怪我们不论孩时还是成人都眷恋着母爱。

no wonder难怪,怪不得。例如:No wonder she's ill.She eats next to nothing.难怪她病了,她几乎什么都没吃。

B Father is the one who teaches the child,who shows him the road into the worId.

父亲是这样一个人,他教孩子,如何面对他的人生道路走向世界。

who引导定语从句,修饰the one。

C The negative aspect is the very fact that fatherly Iove has to be deserved.

消极方面是这一事实,即父爱是要争取的。

the very fact that……同位语从句,that不可以省略。

I Love You 我爱你

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爱上一个人便会变化自己的心,幸福便如早上的朝阳,夜晚的星星,每天给你惊喜。你会热爱自己的生命,从此心里充满着温暖和感激。这是一种积极的爱,它会给你带来希望、欢乐,让你时刻充满着自信。

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