1.Should rational thought win out over romance, any relationship in question would surely fade as quickly as it had begun.
2.Perhaps a more refined definition would be that "love" is wanting (but not needing) the other person in your life for always, because ideally I want to be a much better person for having known him.
3.Consider, for example, the situation of ED and Jane, a hypothetical modern couple who see each other across a crowdedroom, feel inexplicable sensations not reducible to computer printouts and make human contact.
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4.The way people talk, of course, reflects the way they think, and this avoidance of the language of love probably reflects a wish to avoid the consuming single-minded commitment to love to which the old words led,often no doubt, to the dismay of people who uttered them.
5.Whatever the explanation, it is a bleak era for love, which makes it a time of dull joys,small-bore agonies and thin passion."I could not love thee,dear,so much, lov'd I not honor more," the poet once could write. Today he could only say, "I could not have so fulfilling a relationship with thee,dear, had I not an even more highly intensified mental set as regards the absurd and widely discredited concept known as honor."
6.It takes a very cool pair of cats to talk about the grandest of passions as though it were only an exercise in sociology.
这些问题都是《文化透视英语教程》BOOK TWO(何其莘编著) 的前三篇文章里的