散文：Will there really be a "Morning"?
时间：2019-01-01 作者：英语课 分类：英语散文阅读
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Will there really be a "Morning"?
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Men from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "Morning" lies!
It is intriguing 1 to read this poem as a yearn 2 for the joy of day that will relieve us from the perpetual darkness. To interpret something so magnificent as a morning or a day, would she have to become bigger, or as she puts it, a mountain? With no sensory 3 experience of the day, she is forced to use childish language and concepts, attempting to appreciate something she could never understand. Further on in the poem, she is kindly 4 asking the best knowledgeable 5 scholars, the most daring adventurers and the wisest men to locate morning on one of their carefully constructed maps. We are all pilgrims on a journey to find the true meaning or purpose to our lives.
是否真有“黎明”？
是否真有“白天”？
我能否从山上看见
假如我高及山巅？
它是否像睡莲有根须？
它是否像鸟儿有羽毛？
它是否来自闻名国度
此前我未曾听人提到？
啊，哪位学者！啊，哪位水手！
啊，哪位天上的贤明！
请告诉一位小小的朝圣者
哪里有个地方叫“黎明”！
adj.有趣的；迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词)；激起…的好奇心
- These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
- It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.想念；怀念；渴望
- We yearn to surrender our entire being.我们渴望着放纵我们整个的生命。
- Many people living in big cities yearn for an idyllic country life.现在的很多都市人向往那种田园化的生活。
adj.知觉的，感觉的，知觉器官的
- Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
- The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。
adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地
- Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
- A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
adj.知识渊博的；有见识的
- He's quite knowledgeable about the theatre.他对戏剧很有心得。
- He made some knowledgeable remarks at the meeting.他在会上的发言颇有见地。