Love Is Difficult 爱是艰巨的
By Rainer Maria Rilke
It is good to love, because love is difficult. For one human being to love
another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been
entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which
all other work is merely preparation.
爱，很好。但爱是艰巨的，由于我们去爱别人：这大概是神给以我们的最艰巨、最重大的使命，伦理，是最后的检验与测试，是最崇高的事变、此外事变都不外是为此而做的筹备。
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 solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart,
they must learn to love, But learning time is always a long, secluded time ahead
and far on into life, is solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness
for the person who loves. loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering or
uniting with another person (what would a union be for two people who are
unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?); it is a high inducement for the
individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, 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.
以是，那些统统都还方才开始的青年们还不能去爱，他们必必要进修。必需用他们整个的生命、用统统的力气，用集聚了他们寥寂、疾苦和声誉感的心去进修爱。在进修时期这个持久而专注的进程中，爱就会永久地铭记心扉——深深的寥寂中孤傲地守候，是为了所爱的人。爱的要义并不是什么羡慕、献身、或二人的团结(那会是奈何一种团结呢?是一种糊涂的、不认真任的、草率的团结)。它对付小我私人是一种崇高的动力，是去成熟并实现自身的圆满，去完成一个天下，是为了另一小我私人而完成的天下，这是一个难题的、不行妥协的方针，用强项的信心，向远方呼叫。
Only in this sense, as the task of working on themselves (to hearken and to
hammer day and night), 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, is
perhaps that for which human lives as yet barely large enough.
青年们应该把爱看成他们的课业、他们事变的意义，并在个中(“昼夜不断地试探、锻炼”)去行使那些给与他们的爱。至于羡慕、献身，情感，以及团结，还不是他们所能做的(他们还必要长时刻地禁止、蕴蓄)，那是最后的终点，大概是我们此刻还险些达不到的地步。
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