抒情而富有诗意 奥巴马给初恋的情书曝光

Barack Obama's love letters to his first girlfriend have just been released and they're every bit as ambitious, charismatic and intellectuAl as you would imagine.

近日，贝拉克·奥巴马致他的初恋的情书曝光，这些信件，正如你所想象的那般有雄心、有魄力、有文化。

And obviously nothing like anything we've ever been sent on Valentine's day...

很显然，这些情书与我们曾于情人节收到的东西是不太一样的。

The nine full letters, sent by the former US president to his then college girlfriend, Alexandra McNear, are finally being made public to researchers through Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, according to the Associated Press.

据美联社报道，由这位前总统寄给他的大学时的女友亚历山德拉·麦克尼尔的九封情书，最终在埃默里大学的“斯图尔特·A·罗斯手稿、档案和珍本图书馆”对外公布。

Officials said the university has had the letters since 2014, but could only make them public now.

该校的行政人员表示，2014年他们就拿到了这些情书，但是直到现在才得以公开展示。

Researchers have described his writings as 'lyrical and poetic', offering a unique insight into the mind of a young man whose path would eventually lead to to the White House, Emory University officials added.

埃默里大学的行政人员补充说道，奥巴马的情书“抒情而富有诗意”，从中可以以一个独特的角度，一窥这位最终入主白宫的年轻人的思想。

In one of the earliest letters, he wrote: "I trust you know that I miss you, that my concern for you is as wide as the air, my confidence in you as deep as the sea, my love rich and plentiful."

在最早的一封情书中，他写道：“我相信你知道我想念你，我对你的关心就像空气一样宽广，我对你的信赖就像大海一样深，我的爱丰富而多彩。”

One excerpt from 1983 to McNear reads: "I think of you often, though I stay confused about my feeling. It seems we will ever want what we cannot have; that's what binds us; that's what keeps us apart."

作于1983年致麦克尼尔的情书节选这样写道：“我经常想起你，尽管我对自己的感受感到困惑。似乎我们永远都想要那些得不到的东西；这就是束缚我们的障碍；这就是让我们分开的原因。”

In another, Obama writes: "My ideas aren't as crystallised as they were while in school, but they have an immediacy and weight that may be more useful if and when I'm less observer and more participant."

在另外一封情书中，奥巴马写道：“我的观念没有大学时期那么具体了。但是我想，如果我不再是一个旁观者，而是一个参与者，那么我的想法就能更快地实现，也更有分量。”