愛情，是人類永恒的一個話題。
和其它問題相比，當涉及到的主題是愛情時是最令人煩惱的。
如何說出你所感受到的？怎么把它們連接起來？
人們在戀愛中如何表達他們的欲望、愛情，歡樂、沮喪、悲傷。
這就是美國傳統字典（the American Heritage Dictionaries）的編輯們奉獻給大家的愛情助攻100詞。
如果按照書名100 Words for Lovers，直譯就是（獻）給情侶們的100詞。
這100詞在難度上遠低于前面幾篇文章介紹的其它100詞系列。
下面是這本書的前言，希望朋友們能享受這些文字：
Preface
It’s a timeless problem, how to say what you feel, which words to choose, how to string them together. And the problem is never more troubling than when the subject is love.
100 Words for Lovers is intended to show how people have express their desire, their affection, their joy, their frustration, and their sadness when they are in love----talented and sensitive people coping with matters of the heart.
Specifically, the book places in evidence the words that creative writers and lovers in real life have used to convey passions, make themselves understood, describe the heart’s complaint, and observe the ironies of romantic predicaments.
In this way the book is somewhat different from its predecessors in the 100 words series, such as 100 Words to Make You Sound Great and 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart. These books showcase words that we all should know and put to good use in our efforts to be clear and convincing. They are primarily intended as vocabulary builders and reinforcers. They recommend words that we may met before but don’t have at our fingertips.
By contrast, most of words in 100 Words for Lovers are quite ordinary words, words like desire, kiss, and passion, that no one needs to explain to us. The point of this book is to celebrate these words as a way of coming to terms with the powerful movements of the heart and the fearsome dangers they entail.
To be sure, the book has some exotic and unfamiliar words, such as callipygian, inamorata, and osculation. And there are out-of-the-ordinary and somewhat formal words like assignation, dalliance, and troth. These words have their place too in the time-honored tradition of close encounters and communications.
To make its case, the book includes quotations from Renaissance and Jacobean poets as well as contemporary fiction writers, from recent film and television scripts as well as love letters from bygone eras. The English language may have changed, human culture may have changed, but the emotions remain the same.
And these emotions are what you will feel yourself as you read this book, the words and their quotations building like a wave from thought to thought, from page to page. To love is to live fully, and this book is meant to help you make the most of every opportunity as you speak and write about love.
Joseph Pickett,
Executive Editor
To love is to live fully.
有了愛情人生會更加完美，但缺憾本身也是一種美，但愿編輯們的美好心愿能助更多的朋友抓住每一次的機會，現在來看這100詞吧：
1. adore
2. affair
3. affection
4. alluring
5. amorous
6. ardor
7. assignation
8. attentions
9. beloved
10. besotted
11. bewitching
12. billet-doux
13. bliss
14. blush
15. buss
16. callipygian
17. canoodle
18. caress
19. charm
20. chaste
21. clandestine
22. comely
23. companionship
24. conjugal
25. constant
26. coy
27. crush
28. cute
29. dalliance
30. desire
31. dishabille
32. ecstasy
33. embrace
34. enamor
35. enchant
36. entrance
37. entreaty
38. erotic
39. escort
40. flame
41. fling
42. flirt
43. fluster
44. gallant
45. heartthrob
46. idolize
47. illicit
48. inamorata
49. infatuation
50. inflame
51. intimate
52. intoxicating
53. jealousy
54. jilt
55. kiss
56. languor
57. liaison
58. love
59. lurid
60. luscious
61. lustrous
62. osculation
63. palpitate
64. passion
65. pine
66. pulchritude
67. randy
68. rapturous
69. ravish
70. requite
71. romance
72. seductive
73. sensual
74. serenade
75. smitten
76. soulmate
77. spurn
78. star-crossed
79. succumb
80. sultry
81. sweetheart
82. swoon
83. sympathy
84. tenderness
85. throb
86. titillate
87. torch
88. torrid
89. transfigure
90. transport
91. trifle
92. troth
93. tryst
94. voluptuous
95. vow
96. wanton
97. win
98. woo
99. yearn
100. zaftig
