"Love," this English word: like other English words, it has tense. "Loved" or "will love" or "have loved." All these specific tenses mean Love is time-limited thing. Not infinite. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, Love is (ai). It has no tense, no past, no future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance. Love is existence, holding past and future.
—Guo, Xiaolu. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers. New York, NewYork USA: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday. Random House, Inc, 2007.