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Ages ago when you opened the south gate of the garden of gods, and came down upon the first youth of the earth, O Spring; men and women rushed out of their houses, laughing and dancing, and pelting each other with flower-dust in a sudden madness of mirth.
Year after year you bring the same flowers that you scattered in your path in that earliest April. Therefore, to-day, in their pervading perfume, they breathe the sigh of the days that are now dreams—the clinging sadness of vanished worlds. Your breeze is laden with love-legends that have faded from all human language.
One day, with fresh wonder, you came into my life that was fluttered with its first love. Since then the tender timidness of that inexperienced joy comes hidden every year in the early green buds of your lemon flowers;your red roses carry in their burning silence all that was unutterable in me; the memory of lyric hours, those days of May, rustles in the thrill of your new leaves born again and again.

mir, marvel

【拉丁】=wonder,look,表示“惊奇，看”
词根助记：mirth : mir＋th惊喜状态→欢乐
同根词

admirable | admire | miracle | mirror | marvel | admiration | marvelous |

admirable ad向着+mir=向着……表示惊奇=钦佩，羡慕
释义： adj. 令人钦佩的, 令人赞赏的
admire ad向着+mir=向着……表示惊奇=钦佩，羡慕
释义： vt. 钦佩, 羡慕, 赞美
miracle 奇迹令人惊奇
释义： n. 奇迹
mirror mir+or→能看见自己的东西→镜子
释义： n. 镜子vt. 反映,反射
marvel
释义： n. 奇异的事物, 罕见的例子v. 惊异于, 惊异
admiration ad向着+mir=向着……表示惊奇=钦佩，羡慕
释义： n. 钦佩, 赞赏
marvelous
释义： adj. 令人惊异的,了不起的,不平常的

读完House of Mirth了。多悲伤多讽刺啊。一个人从未在世界上找到真正对她有意义的连结，无论是与人还是与一种能够寄托的精神。她在家庭与社会的误导下，将自己近乎全部的价值感押在了那件最金玉其外，而又败絮其中的东西上，而又没有足够的运气与它共进求生。真是命运弄人。
理解了为什么女主迟迟无法做出选择，斩断对上流社会和金钱财富的依赖和向往了。她已经把自己的根基都牢牢扎在了这些虚无缥缈的东西上，把它连根拔起就意味着她自己会彻底地迷失。而在她对爱和生命，这些她其实真正渴望的东西的信念都不足以让她为之而生的时候，她就真的一无所有了。
这悲剧真是完全可预见的。
能够找到那样自己真正相信的，热爱的，让自己与世界产生连结之物的人，都是何其幸运的人啊。
牢牢抓住它，向着它的方向去活。哪怕生活不如所愿，哪怕在岁月的洪流里只是站在岸上，然后远远地眺望着它，知道自己能够追寻的意义，也就已经足够美好。