How hard it was to be sincere, not to make the emotion more beautiful and more violent or the circumstance more romantic.

要做到真诚是多么难啊，不能使感情变得更美好、更激烈，不能使环境变得更浪漫。

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A Chinese DINK said to me recently, "if you didn't have three children, you could go to a bar or the cinema with your wife on weekends — how unrestrained and romantic that would be!"

最近，一位中国“丁克”对我说：“你要是没有三个孩子，周末与太太去酒吧或电影院———那多自在、多浪漫啊！”

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"We ought to be doing things that are romantic," he said, adding that nobody knew yet how to build sails big and thin enough for serious travel.

“我们将要做的事情是浪漫的，”他补充说，目前还没有人知道该如何制造能进行真正旅行所用的足够大和薄的帆。

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So far, I've been stressing a kind of anti-Romantic side of Frost, how he seems to be saying, "Nothing but the facts, please."

到现在我一直强调的是一个反浪漫主义的弗罗斯特，他像是说着“除了事实没有其他的“

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Robin Day was hopelessly romantic on the subject, stressing how he'd love to be in Parliament.

BBC: By Brian Walden