参考译文

爱，很好。因为爱是艰难的。当一个人去爱另一个人，这也许是神给予我们的最艰难、最重大的任务，是最后的考验与测试，是最崇高的工作，别的工作都不过是为此而做的准备。所以那些一切都还刚刚开始的青年们还不能去爱，他们必须要学习。必须用他们整个的生命，用一切的力量，用集聚了他们寂寞、痛苦和荣誉感的心去学习爱。在学习时期这个长久而专注的过程中，爱就会永远地铭刻心扉——深深的寂寞中孤独地等待，是为了所爱的人。爱的要义并不是什么倾心、献身，或二人的结合（那会是怎样的一种结合呢？是一种糊涂的、不负责任的、轻率的结合）。它对于个人是一种崇高的动力，是去成熟并实现自身的圆满，去完成一个世界，是为了另一个人而完成一个自己的世界，这是一个艰巨的、不可妥协的目标，用坚定的信念，向远方召唤。青年们应把爱当做他们的课业、他们工作的意义，并在其中（“昼夜不停地探索、锤炼”）使用那些给予他们的爱。至于倾心、献身以及结合，还不是他们所能做的（他们还需长时间地克制、积累），那是最后的终点，也许是我们现在还几乎不能达到的境界。

Learning for Better Understanding

Listen to the article, and then try to answer the following questions.

1. Why should young people make great efforts on studying?

2. What is the final destination of learning and working?

Chunks in Practice

Listen to the following passage twice and then fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

1.It is also good to love: because love is______. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult______that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the______and proof, the work for which all other work is merely______.

2.But______is always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, is solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of______for the person who loves.

Now a Try

Listen to the article again, and then try to write a summary that is no more than 25 words.

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