Many people assume that romance fades as couples grow older, but a heartbreaking video of an elderly man singing to his dying wife shows that for some, love lasts a lifetime.
许多人都以为,老了,浪漫的爱情便不再了,但是在这个令人心碎的视频中,一名年迈的老人唱歌给寿终正寝的妻子证实了——有些爱是可以持久一生的。

In the tender clip, uploaded to Facebook by the pair's granddaughter Erin Solari, 92-year-old Howard is seen serenading his dying wife, 93-year-old Laura, with Rosemary Clooney's version of the 1940s love song You'll Never Know.
这对老两口的孙女艾琳·索拉里,将这个充满爱意的视频传到了脸书上,视频中,92岁的霍华德正在为深爱的垂暮之妻哼唱小夜曲,歌曲名字叫《你永远不会知道》(20世纪40年代罗丝玛丽·克鲁尼的版本)。他的妻子叫罗拉,今年已经93岁了。

'Love you... always have,' Laura, who is blind and in her final days of hospice care, tells her husband in the video - before asking him to 'behave' when she's gone.
劳拉在视频中临终关怀他的丈夫在她去世后一定要乖一点,随后对他的丈夫说:“我爱你…从未改变”。劳拉已经失明了,而且留在世上的日子所剩无几。

Howard then proceeds to serenade his wife of 73 years, caressing her face as he sings: 'You'll never know just how much I miss you. You'll never know just how much I care.'
霍华德轻抚着她的面颊继续唱到:“你不知道我会多想你,你不知道你对我有多重要。”他们已经一起走过了73个春秋。

'Isn't he sweet?' Laura says to her granddaughter, who is filming the precious moment on her phone in the hospital room.
劳拉的孙女在医院病房拍下这珍贵的一幕时,她对她的孙女说:“你外公贴心吧?”

As Howard continues to sing to her and stroke her face, Laura perks up and declares: 'He likes me!'
听到劳拉这么说,霍华德轻拍了下她的脸,又继续唱了以来,劳拉调整了下精神说:“你外公真的很喜欢我。”

Erin originally posted the video to her Facebook page on September 12, and the clip has since earned more than 3.6 million views.
9月12日的时候艾琳只是把这段视频传到了自己的脸书主页,没想到却得到了360万的点击率。

On her social media accounts, Erin revealedintimate details of her grandparents inspiring relationship.
在她的社交主页上,艾琳讲诉了许多她祖父母之间亲密无间的事情。

She said Howard chose to sing You'll Never Know to his wife because 'the song that comforted her when he went away to fight in World War II.
她说霍华德之所以唱《你永远不会知道》这首歌,是因为在在二战期间,霍华德不再的时候,劳拉就是听着这首歌安慰自己的。

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