情人節必讀：英媒評選十句最浪漫情話(雙語)

Britons have chosen a line from Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights" as the most romantic in English literature.

　　英國人認為英國文學中最浪漫的情話來自艾米莉·勃朗特的小說《呼嘯山莊》。

　　A poll of 2,000 adults commissioned by Warner Home Video to mark the DVD release of the romantic comedy "Going the Distance" showed 20 percent of respondents chose the line: "whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

　　這項涵蓋了2000名成人的調查是由華納家庭錄影公司開展的，目的是為了紀念愛情喜劇《遠距離愛情》發行DVD版本。調查顯示，20%的應答者選擇了這句話：「不論我們的靈魂是什麼做成的，他的和我的是一模一樣的。」

　　Fictional character Catherine Earnshaw's comment on her love for Heathcliff was followed by Winnie-The-Pooh, the fictional bear created by English writer AA Milne: "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you."

　　這是小說中的人物凱瑟琳·恩肖在訴說她對希思克利夫的愛意。緊隨其後的是英國作家米爾恩創作的卡通人物小熊維尼說的話：「假如你的壽命是100年，那我希望自己活到100歲的前一天，因為那樣我的生命中每天都有你。」

　　England's most famous playwright, William Shakespeare, came third with a line from his play about star-crossed lovers "Romeo and Juliet": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun."

　　英國最著名的劇作家威廉·莎士比亞的戲劇《羅密歐與朱麗葉》中的這句話排在第三位：「噓！那邊窗戶里亮起的是什麼光？哦，那是東方，朱麗葉就是太陽！」《羅密歐與朱麗葉》講述的一對苦命戀人的故事。

　　A list of quotes and their ranking by respondents follows:

　　以下是應答者評選出的愛情名句排行榜：

　　1. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" - Emily Bronte

　　「不論我們的靈魂是什麼做成的，他的和我的是一模一樣的。」——艾米莉·勃朗特

　　2."If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you" - A A Milne

　　「假如你的壽命是100年，那我希望自己活到100歲的前一天，因為那樣我的生命中每天都有你。」——米爾恩

　　3."But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun" - Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet"

　　「噓！那邊窗戶里亮起的是什麼光？哦，那是東方，朱麗葉就是太陽！」——莎士比亞，《羅密歐與朱麗葉》

　　4. "He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong" - W.H. Auden

　　「他是我的南北，我的西東。是我作息的意義。是我的日夜，歡唱談話的內容。我以為愛會永恆不朽……我錯了。」——W·H·奧登

　　5. "You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams" - Dr. Seuss

　　「當你終於因為現實比夢境更美而無法入睡時，你戀愛了。」——蘇斯博士

　　6. "When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part" - "Captain Corelli's Mandolin"

　　「愛情是一種暫時的瘋狂。它像地震一樣爆發，然後又平息。而當它平息時，你得做出一個判斷。你得弄清楚你同他是否已經盤根錯節地成為一體，以至無法分開。」——《柯萊利上尉的曼陀林》

　　7."Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be" - Robert Browning「
和我一起慢慢變老吧！最好的日子還在後頭。」——羅伯特·布朗寧

　　8."For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow" - Rosemonde Gerard

　　「你知道嗎？我每天都愛你更多。今天愛的比昨天多，明天愛的比今天多。」——羅絲蒙德·傑拉德

　　9."But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever" - Robert Burns

　　「誰見她就會愛她，誰愛她就會永遠愛她。」——羅伯特·彭斯

　　10."I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator" - Napoleon Bonaparte's 1796 dispatch to wife Josephine

　　「希望不久我將把你緊緊地摟在懷中，吻你億萬次，像在赤道下面那樣熾烈的吻。」——拿破崙·波拿巴1796年發給妻子約瑟芬的快信