04 Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine拿破仑·波拿巴致约瑟芬
Verona,November 13rd，1796
I don't love you,not at all；on the contrary,I detest you.You're a naughty,gawky,foolish Cinderella.You never write me,you don't love your own husband；you know what pleasure your letters give him,and yet you haven't written him six lines,dashed off casually！
我不爱你，一点儿也不；相反，我讨厌你——你是个淘气、腼腆、愚蠢的姑娘。你从来不给我写信，你不爱你的丈夫：你明知你的信能给他带来莫大的快乐；然而，你却连六行字都没给他写过，即使是心不在焉、草草写的也好啊。
What do you do all day,Madam?What is the affair so important as to leave you no time to write to your devoted lover?What affection stifles and puts to one side the love,the tender constant love you promised him?Of what sort can be that marvelous being,that new lover who absorbs every moment,tyrannizes over your days,and prevents your giving any attention to your husband?Josephine,take care！Some fine night,the doors will be broken open and there I'll be.
夫人，你一天到晚干些什么呢？什么事这么重要，竟使你忙得没有时间给你忠诚的爱人写信呢？是什么样的恋情扼杀排挤了你答应给他的爱情呢？你那脉脉柔情而忠诚不渝的爱呢？那位奇妙的人物，你那位新情人，究竟是个什么样的人物，竟能占去你的每一分钟，霸占你每天的光阴，不让你稍稍关心一下你的丈夫呢？约瑟芬，留神点，说不定哪个美丽的夜晚，我就会破门而入的！
Indeed,I am very uneasy,my love,at receiving no news of you；write me quickly four pages,pages full of agreeable things which shall fill my heart with the pleasantest feelings.I hope before long to crush you in my arms and cover you with a million kisses as though beneath the equator.
说真的，我的爱人，得不到你的讯息，使我坐立不安。立刻给我写上四页信来，四页充满甜蜜话语的信，我将感到无限快慰。希望不久我将把你紧紧搂在怀中，吻你亿万次，烈火般炽热。
Bonaparte
波拿巴
1796年11月13日于维洛那
detest[dɪˈtest]vt.憎恶，嫌恶，痛恨
例 Jean detested being photographed.
琼非常讨厌拍照。
gawky[ˈgɔːki]adj.迟钝的，笨拙的
例 Ten years ago he was a gawky teenager.
10年前，他是个看似粗笨的少年。
dash off匆忙完成
例 I must dash off some letters before I leave.
我必须在离开之前把这几封信给赶出来。
stifle v.扼杀；压制
例 His hand shot to his mouth to stifle a giggle.
他赶紧捂住嘴，不让自己笑出声来。
tyrannize[ˈtɪrənaɪz]v.欺压；专横（或暴虐）地对待
例 He used to tyrannize his younger brother.
他过去常常欺压自己的弟弟。
uneasy[ʌnˈiːzi]adj.焦虑的；不安的
例 Richard was uneasy about how best to approach his elderly mother.
该如何去跟年迈的母亲谈，理查德心里没有数。
equator[ɪˈkweɪtə（r）]n.赤道
例 Singapore is near the equator.
新加坡位于赤道附近。
①You know what pleasure your letters give him.
这句话中“what”引导一个宾语从句，在这个从句中“what pleasure”做“give”的宾语。
例 You have no idea what experiences he has gone through.
你对他经历的事情一无所知。
②What is the affair so important as to leave you no time to write to your devoted lover?
这句话中有一个词组“so+adj.+as to”，意为“（如此……）以至于”。
例 One should learn from past mistakes so as to avoid falling into the same old trap again.
要从过去的错误中吸取教训，以免重蹈覆辙。
③I hope before long to crush you in my arms and cover you with a million kisses as though beneath the equator.
这是一个并列句，“to crush you in my arms”和“cover you with……equator”并列，是动词不定式做宾语的情况。此外，第二个分句中“cover”前省略了“to”，以免重复。
例 They are all allowed to sing and dance.
他们都被允许唱歌和跳舞。
1.It is possible to learn more of a human being in one minute of love than in months of observation.—Roman Rolland
要了解一个人，相恋一分钟可能胜过观察几个月。——罗曼·罗兰
2.The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.—Mother Teresa
对爱的渴望要比对面包的渴望更难消除。——特蕾莎修女
3.Love sought is good,but given unsought is better.—William Shakespeare
追求得到的爱情固然美好，但不经追求而得到的爱情更为美好。——莎士比亚
4.How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics,so important a biological phenomenon as first love.—Albert Einstein
究竟怎么用化学和物理来解释初恋这种重要的生物现象呢？——爱因斯坦
5.Some of us get dipped in flat,some in satin,some in gloss.But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent,and when you do,nothing will ever compare.—Flipped
有的人浅薄，有的人金玉其表败絮其中。有一天，你会遇到一个彩虹般绚烂的人，当你遇到这个人后，会觉得其他人都只是浮云而已。——《怦然心动》
6.If you can hold something up and put it down,it is called weight-lifting；if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing.Pitifully,most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.—If Only
举得起放得下的叫举重，举得起放不下的叫负重。可惜，大多数人的爱情，都是负重的。——《如果能再爱一次》
7.Love makes man grow up or sink down.—500 Days of Summer
爱情，要么让人成熟，要么让人堕落。——《和莎莫的500天》
8.Good love makes you see the whole world from one person while bad love makes you abandon the whole world for one person.—Jeux d'enfants
好的爱情是你通过一个人看到整个世界，坏的爱情是你为了一个人舍弃世界。——《两小无猜》