A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
求爱
Courtship
There is too little courtship in the world.
世界上的求爱太少了。
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
求偶之于婚姻，犹如一出枯燥乏味的戏剧的诙谐开场白。
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
这是全世界的求爱——男人都是舌头;女人洗耳恭听。
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
这些婚姻通常充满了爱和坚贞，在此之前还有一段漫长的求爱期。
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
政治上的同床异梦从来都不奇怪。只有那些没有看过求爱过程的人才会这么认为。
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
求偶包括许多安静的关注，既不尖锐到引起警觉，也不模糊到让人无法理解。
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
求爱时的奉承是最无礼的，因为它假装给你的东西比你应得的多，其实是在伺机夺走你真正拥有的东西。