One of my favourite passages from A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
"Love," this English word: like other English words it has tense. "Loved" or "will love" or "have-loved." All these specific tenses mean Love is time-limited thing. Not infinite. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, Love is 爱(ai). It has no tense. No past and future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance. Love is existence, holding past and future.
"Love," this English word: like other English words it has tense. "Loved" or "will love" or "have-loved." All these specific tenses mean Love is time-limited thing. Not infinite. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, Love is 爱(ai). It has no tense. No past and future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance. Love is existence, holding past and future.
1 comment:
very astute analysis (:
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