天天用英语：四十课 -Kafka on love and patience
If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. —— John Steinbeck
链接：
第一篇：
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/05/kafka-love-letters/
第二篇：
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/22/conversations-with-kafka-love-patience/
首句
Relationships are probably our great learning experiences.
relationships 人际关系，情侣关系（
亲昵关系）
relationship 关联，关系（较正式）
Sino-US relationship 中美关系
二句
Perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks... the work for which all other work is but preparation.
but = only 副词
三句
When we fall in love, we are asked to rise to this task —— a polarizing pull that stretches the psyche in opposite directions as we crave surrender and safety in equal measure.
a polarizing pull 一种撕心裂肺的神秘力量
psyche 心智
crave 渴望
surrender 屈服
四句
Young Franz and Felice began a correspondence of escalating intensity, with Kaflka frequently exasperated over his beloved's infrequent and insufficiently romantic response.
discomfort 不安的
disorienting 通信
escalating intensity 越来越热烈
exasperated 被激怒的
五句
If I did, how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood.
Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked.
No, if my suffering could be cured by such means it would not be serious.
(以上为辅助阅读)
If we value our lives, let us abandon it all... I am forever fettered to myself, that's what I am, and that's what I must try to live with.
fetter 束缚
六句
It makes sense, of course, for a man who associated pleasure with pain（痛并快乐着） —— nowhere more vividly than in his famous proclamation that "a book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" —— to experience love as at once elating and anguishing.
associate a with b
elating 得意洋洋的
anguishing 极度痛苦的
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
I am a cage, in search of a bird. —— Franz Kafka
第二篇
首句
What makes these conversations so compelling is that much of what is said counters the familiar image of Kafka as a creature of grievance and gloom.
counter 反驳
grievance 不满
gloom 阴郁
二句
A rupture of the heart that had rendered him hopeless about the possibility of happiness in love.
rupture 破裂
render ab adj. 使某人处于...的状态
三句
Conversations with Kafka is a trove of often dark, sometimes radiant, always profound insight, from one of the most complex and compelling minds humanity has produced.
radiant 光辉灿烂的
trove 收藏品
金句
Art like prayer is a hand outstretched in the darkness, seeking for some touch of grance which will transform it into a hand that bestows gifts.
Goethe（歌德） says practically everything that matters to us human beings.
What is love? After all, it is quite simple. Love is everything which enhances, widens, and enriches our life. In its heights and in its depths. Love has few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
Just be quiet and patient.
Let evil and unpleasantness pass quietly over you.
Do not try to avoid them.
On the contrary, observe them carefully.
Let active understanding take the place of reflex irritation, and you will grow out of your trouble.
Men can achieve greatness only by surmounting.
Heartbreak is how we mature.
你之所以还没成功，可能是因为，你，又急躁，又懒惰。
Patience is the master key to every situation. One must have sympathy for everything, surrender to everything, but at the same time remain patient and forbearing....There is no such thing as bending or breaking. It's a question only of overcoming, which begins with overcoming oneself. That cannot be avoid. To abandon that path is always to break in pieces.
One must patiently accept everything and let it grow within oneself. The barriers of the fear-ridden I can only be broken by love. One must, in the dead leaves that rustle around one, already see the young fresh green of spring, compose oneself in patience, and wait. Patience is the only true foundation on which to make one's dreams come true.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
The barriers of the fear-ridden I(self) can only be broken by love.
We do not prepare for something, we just rise to it.
(所有纯手打，无粘贴复制，只因如此纯美，读一遍真是不过瘾啊）
最近满课，明日新更，周末补完。