经典散文英汉互译大全：Relationship that Lasts

经典散文英汉互译大全：Relationship that Lasts

If somebody tells you, "I'll love you for ever," will you believe it? I don't think there's any reason not to. We are ready to believe such commitment at the moment, whatever change may happen afterwards. As for the belief in an everlasting love, that's another thing. Then you may be asked whether there is such a thing as an everlasting love. I'd answer I believe in it. But an everlasting love is not immutable（不变的）. You may unswervingly love or be loved by a person. But love will change its composition with the passage of time. It will not remain the same. In the course of your growth and as a result of your increased experience, love will become something different to you. In the beginning you believed a fervent love for a person could last indefinitely. By and by, however, "fervent" gave way to "prosaic（平凡的）" . Precisely because of this change it became possible for love to last. then what was meant by an everlasting love would eventually end up in a sort of interdependence. We used to insist on the difference between love and liking. The former seemed much more beautiful than the latter. One day, however, it turns out there's really no need to make such difference. Liking is actually a sort of love. By the same token, the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love. I wish I could believe there was somebody who would love me for ever. That's, as we all know, too romantic to be true. Instead, it will more often than not be a case of lasting relationship.

如果有人告诉你,“我会永远爱你,你会相信吗? 我不认为有任何理由不去。我们愿意相信这样的承诺,无论改变之后发生的。至于相信永远

的爱,那是另一回事。然后你可能会问是否有这样的事情作为一个永

恒的爱。我回答我相信它。但永远的爱不是不变的(不变的)。你也许

永远爱一个人,或被一个人爱着。但是爱情会随着时间的流逝改变成分。它不会保持不变。在你成长的过程中,所以你的增加经验,爱会变成不

同的东西给你。一开始你相信挚爱一个人可能会持续下去。不过,逐

步地,“狂热”让位于“平淡(平凡的)”。正是因为这样的改变很可能

持续的爱。那么意思是一个永恒的爱最终会在一种相互依赖。我们以

前坚持爱和喜欢的区别。前者比后者看起来更漂亮。不过有一天,原来

真的没有必要做出这样的区别。喜欢是一种爱。同样地,持久的相互依

赖其实就是永恒的爱情。我希望我能相信有人会永远爱我。我们都知道,浪漫得令人难以置信。相反,它往往会持久的关系。