Is Love An Art

1. Is Love An Art

2. What is author’s opinion on love? (the main idea of this essay) Love is an art, which requires knowledge and effort. Hardly does anyone, however, think that there is anything that needs to be learned about love, because of people’s wrong attitudes towards love. We need to have a correct attitudes towards love and learn to love in the same way we learn any other art.

3. Structure analysis Part I (1): Love is an art, which requires knowledge and effort. Hardly does anyone, however, think that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. (Problem) Part II (2-6): some wrong attitudes towards love (causes for the problem) Part III (7-9): We need to be aware that love is an art, which needs to be learnt in the same way any other art is learnt. (solution)

4. Key to v/p quiz Premise: a proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn spontaneous: happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated aggressive: Inclined to behave in a hostile fashion be out for sth: be trying to get or eager to obtain sth considerable: Large in amount, extent, or degree, consummation: The act of consummating; a fulfillment antagonism：hostility, enmity, the condition of being unfriendly infatuation: a foolish, unreasoning, or extravagant passion or attraction aside from: prep. excluding; except for e.g Aside from a mild fever, the patient feels fine.

5. be out for sth: be trying to get or eager to obtain sth, e.g I’m not out for compliments. He is out for your blood. Be out to do sth: be trying, aiming or hoping to do sth, e.g I’m not out to change the world.

6. say: suppose sth as an example or a possibility假定，比方说 You could learn to play chess in, (let’s) say, three months. 学下国际象棋要用，比如说，三个月吧 Let’s take any writer, say Dickens… 咱们可以随便拿个作家为例，比如说狄更斯…