《安娜·卡列尼娜》摘录(6)
最后附上描写列文和吉蒂互述衷情的段落，要是让选举世界文学中十大经典表白场景的话，下面这一幕必须入围！列文第一次向吉蒂求婚时被拒绝，后来听闻吉蒂并没能成婚，一次家庭聚会上，他试图了解吉蒂有没有转变心意。
"I've long wanted to ask you one thing."
He looked straight into her caressing, though frightened eyes.
"Please,ask it."
"Here,"he said; and he wrote the initial letters, w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n,o, t. These letters meant, "When you told me it could never be, did that mean never, or then?" There seemed no likelihood that she could make out this complicated sentence; but he looked at her as though his life depended on her understanding the words. She glanced at him seriously, then leaned her puckered brow on her hands and began to read. Once or twice she stole a look at him, as though asking him, "Is it what I think?"
"I understand," she said, flushing a little. "
What is this word?" he said, pointing to the n that stood for never.
"It means never," she said; "but that's not true!" He quickly rubbed out what he had written, gave her the chalk, and stood up. She wrote, t, i, c, n,a, d.
He was suddenly radiant: he had understood. It meant, "Then I could not answer differently."
"I've long wanted to ask you one thing."
He looked straight into her caressing, though frightened eyes.
"Please,ask it."
"Here,"he said; and he wrote the initial letters, w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n,o, t. These letters meant, "When you told me it could never be, did that mean never, or then?" There seemed no likelihood that she could make out this complicated sentence; but he looked at her as though his life depended on her understanding the words. She glanced at him seriously, then leaned her puckered brow on her hands and began to read. Once or twice she stole a look at him, as though asking him, "Is it what I think?"
"I understand," she said, flushing a little. "
What is this word?" he said, pointing to the n that stood for never.
"It means never," she said; "but that's not true!" He quickly rubbed out what he had written, gave her the chalk, and stood up. She wrote, t, i, c, n,a, d.
He was suddenly radiant: he had understood. It meant, "Then I could not answer differently."
唐三利用胡列娜