声音简介
Chapter One Is Love an Art?
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one “falls into” if one is lucky? This little book is based on the former premise, while undoubtedly the majority of people today believe in the latter.爱是一门艺术吗？如果爱是一门艺术，那就要求人们有这方面的知识并付出努力。或者爱仅仅是一种偶然产生的令人心荡神怡的感受，只有幸运儿才能“堕入”爱的情网呢？这本小册子以第一种假设为基础，而大多数人毫无疑问相信第二种假设。
Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love—yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love.
但这大多数人决不认为爱情无关紧要，相反他们追求爱情。悲欢离合的爱情电影他们百看不厌，百般无聊的爱情歌曲他们百听不烦。但他们之中没有人认为，人们本可以学会去爱。
This peculiar attitude is based on several premises which either singly or combined tend to uphold it. Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved rather than that of loving, of one’s capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. In pursuit of this aim they follow several paths. One, which is especially used by men, is to be successful, to be as powerful and rich as the social margin of one’s position permits. Another, used especially by women, is to make oneself attractive, by cultivating one’s body, dress, etc. Other ways of making oneself attractive, used both by men and women, are to develop pleasant manners, interesting conversation, to be helpful, modest, inoffensive. Many of the ways to make oneself lovable are the same as those used to make oneself successful, “to win friends and influence people.” As a matter of fact, what most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.他们之所以持有这种特殊态度是有其各种原因的，这些原因反过来又分别地或总和地加强了他们的这一态度。大多数人认为爱情首先是自己能否被人爱，而不是自己有没有能力爱的问题。因此对他们来说，关键是：我会被人爱吗？我如何才能值得被人爱？为了达到这一目的，他们采取了各种途径。男子通常采取的方法是在其社会地位所允许的范围内，尽可能地去获得名利和权力，而女子则是通过保持身段和服饰打扮使自己富有魅力；而男女都喜欢采用的方式则是使自己具有文雅的举止，有趣的谈吐，乐于助人，谦虚和谨慎。为了使自己值得被人爱而采用的许多方法与人们要在社会上获得成功所采用的方法雷同，即都是“要赢得朋友和对他人施加影响”。事实上，我们这个社会大多数人所理解的“值得被人爱”无非是赢得人心和对异性有吸引力这两种倾向的混合物而已。
用户评论
表情0/300
音频列表
- 2021-02
- 2021-02
- 2020-08
查看更多
璎珞本质升
后面怎么不读了？期待