散文：I'm Nobody! Who are you?
时间：2019-01-01 作者：英语课 分类：英语散文阅读
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I Am Nobody！Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us - don’t tell!
They’d banish 1 us, you know.
How dreary 2 to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog 3!
This poem is a typical Dickinson's defense 4 of the kind of spiritual privacy she favored, indicating that to be a Nobody is a luxury incomprehensible to the dreary Somebodies - for they are too busy keeping their names in circulation, croaking 5 like frogs in a swamp in the summertime (reminding all the other frogs of their identities).
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us - don’t tell!
They’d banish 1 us, you know.
How dreary 2 to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog 3!
This poem is a typical Dickinson's defense 4 of the kind of spiritual privacy she favored, indicating that to be a Nobody is a luxury incomprehensible to the dreary Somebodies - for they are too busy keeping their names in circulation, croaking 5 like frogs in a swamp in the summertime (reminding all the other frogs of their identities).
vt.放逐，驱逐；消除，排除
- The doctor advised her to banish fear and anxiety.医生劝她消除恐惧和忧虑。
- He tried to banish gloom from his thought.他试图驱除心中的忧愁。
adj.令人沮丧的，沉闷的，单调乏味的
- They live such dreary lives.他们的生活如此乏味。
- She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.她听够了那些关于酗酒和暴力的乏味故事。
n.沼泽；室...陷入泥淖
- We were able to pass him a rope before the bog sucked him under.我们终于得以在沼泽把他吞没前把绳子扔给他。
- The path goes across an area of bog.这条小路穿过一片沼泽。
n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。