It's a failure of faith in Aphrodite.

这是对阿芙洛狄忒信仰的失败
So, to accept love is to accept your being

因此接受爱就是接受你这个人并坚信
and to have faith that love affirms it, affirms that being.

是爱证明了你的存在
Remember that self-admonition: not act like the boyfriend

记住那句自我警告 "不是像个男友
but be.

而是真正成为男友"
This is what Menelaus has to ask forgiveness for.

这正是梅内莱厄斯该乞求原谅的地方
He didn't have enough faith in love just to be and to accept the

他不怎么相信爱也不愿接受
affirmation of his being that Helen's reasonless, causeless

是海伦无理由无条件的爱确定了
love embodies.

他的存在
Barth is asking a really serious question about the compatibility

巴斯提出了一个问题即生活和观点
between life and voice.

能否兼容
Remember that in "Ambrose His Mark" Ambrose is saved from

在"安伯罗斯他的胎记"中