愛情名句大排行 莎翁不敵勃朗特
Britons have chosen a line from Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights" as the most romantic in English literature -- just in time for Valentine's Day.
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."
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."
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."
A list of quotes and their ranking by respondents follows:
1. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" - Emily Bronte
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
3. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun" - Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet"
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
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
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"
7. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be" - Robert Browning
8. "For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow" - Rosemonde Gerard
9. "But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever" - Robert Burns
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.在情人節來臨之際，英國人認爲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》。
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，目的是爲了紀念愛情喜劇《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。”
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A•A•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，因爲那樣我的生命中每天都有你。”
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！那邊窗戶裏亮起的是什麼光？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。
以下是應答者評選出的愛情名句排行榜：
1.“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.“假如你的壽命是100年，那我希望自己活到100歲的前一天，因爲那樣我的生命中每天都有你。”——A•A•米爾恩
3.“噓！那邊窗戶裏亮起的是什麼光？哦，那是東方，朱麗葉就是太陽！”——莎士比亞，《羅密歐與朱麗葉》
4.“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。我以爲愛會永恆不朽……我錯了。”——W•H•奧登
5.“當你終於因爲現實比夢境更美而無法入睡時，你戀愛了。”——蘇斯博士
6.“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爲一體，以至無法分開。”——《柯萊利上尉的曼陀林》
7.“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.“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.“誰見她就會愛她，誰愛她就會永遠愛她。”——羅伯特•彭斯
10.“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
Vocabulary:
star-crossed: not able to be happy because of bad luck or fate（命運乖蹇的；不幸的）
yonder: that is over there; that you can see over there（那裏的；那邊的）
