时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语诗歌


英语课

Seamus Heaney


"Religion's never mentioned here", of course.



"You know them by their eyes," and hold your tongue.



"One side's as bad as the other," never worse.



Christ, it's near time that some small leak was sprung



In the great dykes 1 the Dutchman made



To dam the dangerous tide that followed Seamus.



Yet for all this art and sedentary trade



I am incapable 2. The famous



Northern reticence 3, the tight gag of place



And times: yes, yes. Of the "wee six" I sing



Where to be saved you only must save face



And whatever you say, you say nothing.



Smoke-signals are loud-mouthed compared with us:



Manoeuvrings to find out name and school,



Subtle discrimination by addresses



With hardly an exception to the rule



That Norman, Ken 4 and Sidney signalled Prod 5



And Seamus (call me Sean) was sure-fire Pape.



O land of password, handgrip, wink 6 and nod,



Of open minds as open as a trap,



Where tongues lie coiled, as under flames lie wicks,



Where half of us, as in a wooden horse



Were cabin'd and confined like wily Greeks,



Besieged 7 within the siege, whispering morse.



abbr.diagonal wire cutters 斜线切割机n.堤( dyke的名词复数 );坝;堰;沟
  • They built dykes and dam to hold back the rising flood waters. 他们修筑了堤坝来阻挡上涨的洪水。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The dykes were built as a protection against the sea. 建筑堤坝是为了防止海水泛滥。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.无能力的,不能做某事的
  • He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.他不会做出这么残忍的事。
  • Computers are incapable of creative thought.计算机不会创造性地思维。
n.沉默,含蓄
  • He breaks out of his normal reticence and tells me the whole story.他打破了平时一贯沈默寡言的习惯,把事情原原本本都告诉了我。
  • He always displays a certain reticence in discussing personal matters.他在谈论个人问题时总显得有些保留。
n.视野,知识领域
  • Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
  • Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.
vt.戳,刺;刺激,激励
  • The crisis will prod them to act.那个危机将刺激他们行动。
  • I shall have to prod him to pay me what he owes.我将不得不催促他把欠我的钱还给我。
n.眨眼,使眼色,瞬间;v.眨眼,使眼色,闪烁
  • He tipped me the wink not to buy at that price.他眨眼暗示我按那个价格就不要买。
  • The satellite disappeared in a wink.瞬息之间,那颗卫星就消失了。
包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender. 巴黎被围困了四个月后被迫投降。
  • The community besieged the newspaper with letters about its recent editorial. 公众纷纷来信对报社新近发表的社论提出诘问,弄得报社应接不暇。
学英语单词
analytical syntax
appended procedure
argoed
atrichopogon pruinosus
bag men
ballahs
bash sb up
befall
BIL(basic impulse insulation level)
Biscaya
butter-bowzy
clamped amplifier
coded instruction
Corylopsis veitchiana
cpls
credit exemption
cross one's palm
crucial use of variable
deines
denigrates
die making
dimethylphenosafranine
doodies
dummy riser
duplex bag
edge surface
elasmobranchian
endogenous hormone
energy energy release
etopic testis
final climbout speed
flood control storage
free-minded
Front panel connector
genus Symphoricarpos
green index number
green ormer
gunn (diode) source
hasty expedient road
Hupyong
hydraulic jetting
hydrogen blower
hypsochromic
input data selection
ivoriness
joysticking
kinetic art
L-Hydroxyproline
landing simulation
legitimacy status of children
linearity control circuit
macrodome
mamola
manure conveyor
MAOT
Marizile
medialised
microdiffusion analyser
monoxygenase
multiarray
Narathiwat, Changwat
neoprene glove
night sky radiation
off-minded
one-hand
pachometry
paillasses
perflate
pipers
pissing around
plexus rectalis cranialis
polarization battery
polycyclic relief
Prefox
profos
propellerlike
proper cut set
pslra
qat
queer-bashing
respiratory arrest
reticular layer of skin
right of offset
rilozarone
Rφksund
Saxifraga yunlingensis
scartella emarginata
sebcs
slow storage
Sobralite
sturnella magnas
swear sb to silence
tetragon-trisoctahedron
threw her weight around
trip setting
turns loose
Tycho Brahe
variable free expression
waziristans
wine-maker's yeast
yield stresses
zero-type dynamometer