常考时文朗诵02

（单词翻译）

1. What is perhaps the most difficult task we should take?

2. According to the passage, what induces the individual to perpect himself?

3. What is the learning time of love like? It is always…and…

Love Is Difficult

It is good to love, but love is difficult. For one human being to love

another human being is perhaps the most difficult task that has been

entrusted¹ to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for

which all other work is merely perparation. That is why young people, who

are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love. It is something

they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces gathered

around their solitary², anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to

love. But learning time is always a long, secluded³ time ahead and far on

into life, and is solitude⁴, a heightened and deepened kind of alonenness for

the person who loves. loving does not at first mean merging⁵, surrendering or

uniting with another person; it is a high inducement for the individual to

ripen⁶, to become something in himself, to become world in himself for the

sake of another person; it is a great demanding claim on him, something that

chooses him and calls him to vast distances. Only in this sense, as the task

of working on themselves, may young people use the love that is given to

them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them

(who must, still,for a long, long time, save and gather themselves) It is

the ultimate. It is perhaps that for which human lives as yet barely large

enough.