相信许多人都曾有过单恋的经验吧?苦苦思恋著对方,却无法得到同等的爱,这种感觉真的相当难受呢!今天就和小编来学学如何用英文表达这种情感吧!


 

单恋英文要怎么说

如果要表达「单恋」,简单一点的话我们可以说 one-sided love,one-sided 就是「单方面的」,是不是很好理解呢?

Radiohead’s “Creep” is a song about the pain and anxiety caused by one-sided love.(电台司令的 Creep 是一首关於单恋的痛苦和焦虑的歌。)

要表示「单恋某人」,也可以说 love someone one-sidedly,例如:

Lily loved Manny one-sidedly for several years.(Lily 单恋 Manny 好几年了。)

那要更专业一点,我们也可以用 unrequited love 来表示「单恋」,unrequited 就是「单方面的、得不到回报的」,例如:

Suffering unrequited love, Ben felt depressed and hopeless.(受到单恋所苦,Ben 感到忧郁又绝望。)

Is there any way to cure unrequited love?(有任何方式可以治疗单恋吗?)

Stop torturing yourself with unrequited love. Trust me, one day you will find someone who loves you as much as you love them. (别再单恋折磨自己了。相信我,有天你会找到像你爱他一样爱你的人。)

那我们要表示「单恋他人的人」,就可以说 unrequited lover,例如:

The protagonist of The Sorrows of Young Werther is an unrequited lover who committed suicide at the end of the story.(《少年维特的烦恼》的主角单恋著他人,最后在故事结尾自杀了。)
 

彼此相爱、喜欢对方

那 unrequited love 的相反就是 requited love彼此相爱」,例如:

To many people, requited love is merely an impossible dream.(对许多人来说,彼此相爱根本是不可能的梦想。)

At first, we were just friends, but over time, our friendship gradually became requited love.(一开始,我们只是朋友,但逐渐地我们的友情变成了对彼此的爱。)

那英文也常会用 the feeling is mutual 来表示「有同样的感觉」,不过要注意,这不只会形容两人相爱,也可以形容两人讨厌、憎恨彼此喔。

A: I feel like I’ve fallen in love with you!(我觉得我爱上你了!)
B: The feeling is mutual.(我对你也有一样的感觉。)

My dad hated my husband, and the feeling was mutual.(我爸讨厌我老公,我老公也讨厌他。)
 

学学经典名句

最后,我们也来学几句关於单恋的经典名句:

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”—Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding
(欲火焚身但却只能保持沉默是我们能带给自己最大的惩罚。--Federico García Lorca,《血婚》)

“Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”—J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
(「石内卜的护法是一只雌鹿,和我母亲的护法一样,因为他几乎一辈子都爱著她,从他们还是孩子的时候他就爱著她了。」哈利说。--J.K. 罗琳,《死神的圣物》)

大家有没有单恋的经验呢?也可以试著用英文表达看看喔!
 

延伸阅读

1. 感情出现裂痕!『分手、和好』,英文怎么说?

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3. 「你的感情关系健康吗?来看看十二指标你中了几个!」- 12 Signs You're in a Healthy Relationship