The story is one of scores in To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean to its breakdowns.

这个故事是《原谅设计：理解失败》中的一个片段。这本书既是给工程学献上的情书，也是对其工程故障的赞歌。

They build skills so that someday they might write a great novel, a piece of sorely needed legislation, or the perfect love letter.

他们培养技能，未来以后某一天可以写出一部伟大的小说，一条急需的法律，或一封完美的情书。

Write her a short love letter.

给她写封不长的情书。

Write a love letter to a loved one.

给爱人写情书。

Writing a love letter is a dying art.

写情书这门艺术几尽绝迹。

His love letter took me by surprise.

他的求爱信使我感到惊讶。

Don: I'll write a great love letter for you.

唐：我来帮你写一封很棒的情书。

But how do you go about writing a love letter?

但是，要怎么写好一封情书呢？

It's a love letter, surely because I loved her.

这是情书，当然是因为我爱她了。

A different Love letter and a beautiful reply to it.

一封与众不同的情书，以及美妙的回复。

Have you ever wrote love letter as excellent as those?

你自己有没有写过这么棒的情书？

'Modern Family' is and always will be a love letter to you.

《摩登家庭》是一封写给你的情书，直到永远。

Make sure your personal love letter gets your wife's attention.

确保你的个人情书能引起妻子的关注。

A doltish love letter would prompt your lover to ditch you.

一封愚钝直白的情信会让你的情人弃你而去。

Jane Eyre, I think, can be read as a love letter to a big house.

我想，《简·爱》其实是一封写给大房子的情书。

One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.

其中一个给她写了一封情书，一定要和她幽会。

Write a classic, romantic, passionate, handwritten, heartfelt love letter.

写一封经典，浪漫，多情，字迹优美，感情真挚的情书。

He finished by telling them about the love letter written to his godfather.

最后，他给他们讲了写给他教父的那封情书。

When we write a love letter, don't we read it over and over a hundred times?

当我们写一封情书，我们不是看它一遍又一遍甚至一百遍？

The first rule for a personal love letter is to make it personal and positive.

写情书的首条规则便是要个人化，要正面化。

Idea 1: Write a small but romantic love letter (about 5 lines in length or less).

创意1：写一封短小而浪漫的情书(不要多于5行)。

Learn how to write a love letter that will impress that person you have always wanted.

学习一下如何给你想得到的人撰写情信吧。

It doesn't matter what you write either (i.e. love letter, birthday card, thank you note).

写什么内容并不重要，可以是情书、生日卡片或者感恩字条，关键是你在写就好了。

Idea 2: Write a line or two of a 20 -30 sentence love letter on bits of paper or index CARDS.

创意2：在碎纸或卡片上写出一封20到30个句子的情书。

WARNING- if you send a love letter in a manila envelope, expect your relationship to end soon

注意：如果把情书装在马尼拉纸信封（manila envelope类似于牛皮纸信封——译者注）里的话，那么就别指望你们关系会更进一步了。

It was a kind of love letter, you see: it just happened to be framed exclusively in the past tense.

那是一封情书，你瞧：它只是恰巧用了过去时专门限定罢了。

Idea 5: On a plastic white or light colored plate, write a love letter creatively in permanent pen.

创意5：在白色或浅色塑料盘上写一封情书。

Write a love letter. If you have a significant other, write a letter telling them why you love them.

如果你有一位对你意义非凡的人，写一封信给他告诉他你为什么那么欣赏爱慕他。

After he re-read the love letter between the lines, he realized that he was dumped by his sweetheart.

重读情书之后，他终于明白他已经被情人抛弃了。

But on blogs and in e-mail, anti-Apple readers wrote about the “love letter” I'd written to the iPad;

但是在博客上或者在电子邮件里，苹果产品的反对者对我那篇“热爱苹果产品”的文章发表论述；