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万花筒 2009-02-19 用短信说我爱你 - 英语课
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Valentine's Day is coming up, Anita’s favorite. People used to send, you know handwritten love letters or even poetry.


Out of a British survey shows few people do that any more, and 2/3 of those polled'd never even said I love you. Isn't that shocking 1?


Yeah.


Yes. David Siletto of the BBC reports from London.


Valentine's Day is looming 2, time to express our romantic sides.


"The transport of the heart, they have all the fire of our passions.


What would I not do for love of you, my own Clara, my dear one."


And we are still happy enough to send flowers, but what about the words that go with them? The love letter. Well, it seems the most likely source of a few endearing words these days is in one of these.


There is perhaps something lacking in the average romantic text, but the love letter? Well it appears for most to be a lost art.


I’ve no thought about rhyme on note. Not really.


Why not?


Er, it's of some particular interest, but I don't know much of it. I must I am busy.


That’s an excuse.


Yeah, a bad one.


I mean if someone likes you or you like someone. How would you communicate to them?


Text, give him a text.


It's not very romantic.


Yeah, but men aren't romantic any more.


Would you like them to be?


Yeah. I've a romantic heart, but…


Poems not, but letters yes, with many love words.


You are the first person we’ve met who’s...?


Really?


Did they work?


Because I am a foreigner, er foreigner.


So, too busy and too British for a love letter, and certainly no poems. But it seems we can, just about to manage a text.


David Siletto, BBC news.



1 shocking
adj.令人气愤的;令人震惊的
  • His attitude was shocking to her.他的态度令她感到震惊。
  • Such behaviour is really shocking.这种行为真不像话。
2 looming
n.上现蜃景(光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼)v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近
  • The foothills were looming ahead through the haze. 丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Then they looked up. Looming above them was Mount Proteome. 接着他们往上看,在其上隐约看到的是蛋白质组山。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望
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