常考时文朗诵02

1. What is perhaps the most difficult task we should take?

2. According to the passage, what induces the individual to perpect himself?

3. What is the learning time of love like? It is always…and…

Love Is Difficult

It is good to love, but love is difficult. For one human being to love

another human being is perhaps the most difficult task that has been

entrusted¹ to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for

which all other work is merely perparation. That is why young people, who

are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love. It is something

they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces gathered

around their solitary², anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to

love. But learning time is always a long, secluded³ time ahead and far on

into life, and is solitude⁴, a heightened and deepened kind of alonenness for

the person who loves. loving does not at first mean merging⁵, surrendering or

uniting with another person; it is a high inducement for the individual to

ripen⁶, to become something in himself, to become world in himself for the

sake of another person; it is a great demanding claim on him, something that

chooses him and calls him to vast distances. Only in this sense, as the task

of working on themselves, may young people use the love that is given to

them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them

(who must, still,for a long, long time, save and gather themselves) It is

the ultimate. It is perhaps that for which human lives as yet barely large

enough.

1 entrusted   

v.委托，托付( entrust的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He entrusted the task to his nephew. 他把这任务托付给了他的侄儿。
• She was entrusted with the direction of the project. 她受委托负责这项计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 solitary   

adj.孤独的，独立的，荒凉的；n.隐士

参考例句：

• I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
• The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际，显得十分壮美。

3 secluded   

adj.与世隔绝的；隐退的；偏僻的v.使隔开，使隐退( seclude的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• Some people like to strip themselves naked while they have a swim in a secluded place. 一些人当他们在隐蔽的地方游泳时，喜欢把衣服脱光。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This charming cottage dates back to the 15th century and is as pretty as a picture, with its thatched roof and secluded garden. 这所美丽的村舍是15世纪时的建筑，有茅草房顶和宁静的花园，漂亮极了，简直和画上一样。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 solitude   

n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方

参考例句：

• People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
• They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。

5 merging   

合并（分类）

参考例句：

• Many companies continued to grow by merging with or buying competing firms. 许多公司通过合并或收买竞争对手的公司而不断扩大。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• To sequence by repeated splitting and merging. 用反复分开和合并的方法进行的排序。

6 ripen   

vt.使成熟；vi.成熟

参考例句：

• I'm waiting for the apples to ripen.我正在等待苹果成熟。
• You can ripen the tomatoes on a sunny windowsill.把西红柿放在有阳光的窗台上可以让它们成熟。