英语美文：最经典的爱情诗歌

 　　How do I love thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

　　How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

　　I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

　　My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

　　For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

　　I love thee to the level of everyday's

　　Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

　　I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

　　I love thee purely¹, as they turn from Praise.

　　I love thee with a passion put to use

　　In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

　　I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

　　With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,

　　Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,

　　I shall but love thee better after death.

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adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。