英语诗歌:For the Union Dead-Robert Lowell
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam."
The old South Boston Aquarium 1 stands
In a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded.
The bronze weathervane cod 2 has lost half its scales.
The airy tanks are dry.
Once my nose crawled like a snail 3 on the glass;
to burst the bubbles
drifting from the noses of the cowed, compliant 5 fish.
My hand draws back. I often sigh still
for the dark downward and vegetating 6 kingdom
of the fish and reptile 7. One morning last March,
I pressed against the new barbed and galvanized
fence on the Boston Common. Behind their cage,
yellow dinosaur 8 steamshovels were grunting 9
as they cropped up tons of mush and grass
to gouge 10 their underworld garage.
Parking spaces luxuriate like civic 11
sandpiles in the heart of Boston.
A girdle of orange, Puritan-pumpkin colored girders
braces 12 the tingling 13 Statehouse,
shaking over the excavations 14, as it faces Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry 15
on St. Gaudens' shaking Civil War relief,
propped 16 by a plank 17 splint against the garage's earthquake.
Two months after marching through Boston,
half the regiment 18 was dead;
at the dedication 19,
William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe.
Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
Its Colonel is as lean
as a compass-needle.
He has an angry wrenlike vigilance,
a greyhound's gentle tautness 20;
he seems to wince 21 at pleasure,
He is out of bounds now. He rejoices in man's lovely,
peculiar 23 power to choose life and die -
when he leads his black soldiers to death,
he cannot bend his back.
On a thousand small town New England greens,
the old white churches hold their air
of sparse 24, sincere rebellion; frayed 25 flags
quilt the graveyards 26 of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The stone statues of the abstract Union Soldier
grow slimmer and younger each year -
wasp-waisted, they doze 27 over muskets 28
and muse 29 through their sideburns...
Shaw's father wanted no monument
except the ditch,
where his son's body was thrown
and lost with his "niggers."
The ditch is nearer.
There are no statues for the last war here;
on Boylston Street, a commercial photograph
shows Hiroshima boiling
over a Mosler Safe, the "Rock of Ages"
that survived the blast. Space is nearer.
When I crouch 30 to my television set,
the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.
Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the blessèd break.
The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned 31 cars nose forward like fish;
slides by on grease.
- The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.我第一次看见海豹是在水族馆里。
- I'm going to the aquarium with my parents this Sunday.这个星期天，我要和父母一起到水族馆去。
- They salt down cod for winter use.他们腌鳕鱼留着冬天吃。
- Cod are found in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.北大西洋和北海有鳕鱼。
- Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
- Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。
- My cheeks tingled with the cold. 我的脸颊冻得有点刺痛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The crowd tingled with excitement. 群众大为兴奋。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- I don't respect people who are too compliant.我看不起那种唯命是从，唯唯诺诺的人。
- For years I had tried to be a compliant and dutiful wife.几年来，我努力做一名顺从和尽职尽职的妻子。
- He spends all his free time at home vegetating in front of the TV. 他一有空闲时间就窝在家里看电视。 来自辞典例句
- The frog is not a true reptile.青蛙并非真正的爬行动物。
- So you should not be surprised to see someone keep a reptile as a pet.所以，你不必惊奇有人养了一只爬行动物作为宠物。
- Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
- He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。
- He pulled harder on the rope, grunting with the effort. 他边用力边哼声，使出更大的力气拉绳子。
- Pigs were grunting and squealing in the yard. 猪在院子里哼哼地叫个不停。
- To make a Halloween lantern,you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.要做一个万圣节灯笼，你先得挖空这个南瓜。
- In the Middle Ages,a favourite punishment was to gouge out a prisoner's eyes.在中世纪，惩罚犯人最常用的办法是剜眼睛。
- I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
- The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
- The table is shaky because the braces are loose. 这张桌子摇摇晃晃，因为支架全松了。
- You don't need braces if you're wearing a belt! 要系腰带，就用不着吊带了。
- My ears are tingling [humming; ringing; singing]. 我耳鸣。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- My tongue is tingling. 舌头发麻。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The excavations are open to the public. 发掘现场对公众开放。
- This year's excavations may reveal ancient artifacts. 今年的挖掘可能会发现史前古器物。 来自辞典例句
- The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
- We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
- He sat propped up in the bed by pillows. 他靠着枕头坐在床上。
- This fence should be propped up. 这栅栏该用东西支一支。
- The plank was set against the wall.木板靠着墙壁。
- They intend to win the next election on the plank of developing trade.他们想以发展贸易的纲领来赢得下次选举。
- As he hated army life,he decide to desert his regiment.因为他嫌恶军队生活，所以他决心背弃自己所在的那个团。
- They reformed a division into a regiment.他们将一个师整编成为一个团。
- We admire her courage,compassion and dedication.我们钦佩她的勇气、爱心和奉献精神。
- Her dedication to her work was admirable.她对工作的奉献精神可钦可佩。
- For a string of specified length, tautness and density only certain notes can be generated. 一根确定长度、松紧和密度的弦只能发出某某音。 来自辞典例句
- The barb of his wit made us wince.他那锋芒毕露的机智使我们退避三舍。
- His smile soon modified to a wince.他的微笑很快就成了脸部肌肉的抽搐。
- If you shut all the windows,I will suffocate.如果你把窗户全部关起来，我就会闷死。
- The stale air made us suffocate.浑浊的空气使我们感到窒息。
- He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
- He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
- The teacher's house is in the suburb where the houses are sparse.老师的家在郊区，那里稀稀拉拉有几处房子。
- The sparse vegetation will only feed a small population of animals.稀疏的植物只够喂养少量的动物。
- His shirt was frayed. 他的衬衫穿破了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The argument frayed their nerves. 争辩使他们不快。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He takes a macabre interest in graveyards. 他那么留意墓地，令人毛骨悚然。
- "And northward there lie, in five graveyards, Calm forever under dewy green grass," 五陵北原上，万古青蒙蒙。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
- He likes to have a doze after lunch.他喜欢午饭后打个盹。
- While the adults doze,the young play.大人们在打瞌睡，而孩子们在玩耍。
- The watch below, all hands to load muskets. 另一组人都来帮着给枪装火药。 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
- Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight at towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. 深深的壕堑，单吊桥，厚重的石壁，八座巨大的塔楼。大炮、毛瑟枪、火焰与烟雾。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
- His muse had deserted him,and he could no longer write.他已无灵感，不能再写作了。
- Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.很多报纸都在揣测总统的命运。
- The cylinder head is heavily finned for strength. 汽缸头附有许多突片以增加强度。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Auth imagines that not all the lobe-finned fish were pleased. 奥斯想象那时并非所有的总鳍鱼在水里都很快活。 来自互联网