时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文故事与诗歌


英语课

ProgressThe city's heat is like a leaden pall—

Its lowered lamps glow in the midnight air

Like mammoth 1 orange-moths that flit and flare 2

Through the dark tapestry 3 of night. The tall

Black houses crush the creeping beggars down,

Who walk beneath and think of breezes cool,

Of silver bodies bathing in a pool;

Or trees that whisper in some far, small town

Whose quiet nursed them, when they thought that

Was merely metal, not a grave of mould

In which men bury all that's fine and fair.

When they could chase the jewelled butterfly

Through the green bracken-scented lanes or sigh

For all the future held so rich and rare;

When, though they knew it not, their baby cries

Were lovely as the jewelled butterflies.


by Osbert Sitwell

 The CityWhen, sick of all the sorrow and distress 4

That flourished in the City like foul 5 weeds,

I sought blue rivers and green, opulent meads,

And leagues of unregarded loneliness

Whereon no foot of man had seemed to press,

I did not know how great had been my needs,

How wise the woodland’s gospels and her creeds 6,

How good her faith to one long comfortless.


But in the silence came a Voice to me;

In every wind it murmured, and I knew

It would not cease though far my heart might roam.

It called me in the sunrise and the dew,

At noon and twilight 7, sadly, hungrily,

The jealous City, whispering always—“Home!”


by Charles Hanson Towne



n.长毛象;adj.长毛象似的,巨大的
  • You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
  • Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。
v.闪耀,闪烁;n.潮红;突发
  • The match gave a flare.火柴发出闪光。
  • You need not flare up merely because I mentioned your work.你大可不必因为我提到你的工作就动怒。
n.挂毯,丰富多采的画面
  • How about this artistic tapestry and this cloisonne vase?这件艺术挂毯和这个景泰蓝花瓶怎么样?
  • The wall of my living room was hung with a tapestry.我的起居室的墙上挂着一块壁毯。
n.苦恼,痛苦,不舒适;不幸;vt.使悲痛
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
  • Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。
adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规
  • Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
  • What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气!
(尤指宗教)信条,教条( creed的名词复数 )
  • people of all races, colours and creeds 各种种族、肤色和宗教信仰的人
  • Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creeds. 天主教徒对于新教教义来说,是不可知论者。
n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期
  • Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
  • Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。
学英语单词
anas penelopes
angle pitch
animal-healths
apadana
approximation of ballistic function
array pipeline
arroyomolinos de leon
automatic protection action
belt conveyor type trencher
Bernsfelden
bidegree
Brdhill
browser box
Bucknellian
center feeding
channel control vector
crested myna
cystoscirrhus
dacryostenosis
death panels
electric shrub and hedge trimmer
encephaloophthalmic
endomychid
Entex
enucleate cell
enumerated population
EPG (error pattern generator)
equalizer line
Eurodollar certificate of deposit
feedstores
fern-owl
fibroma myxomatodes
flat belt driving
fuckstruck
Garnotia tenuis
hagiolatries
heels over
hydraulic planer
hyphenate
hypo-conule
interfuses
intersection of air routes
iridium system
it should be noted that
just plain folks
Leiothrix
loading chain
make even
manpower service center
McMath telescope
medium heavy piece of cargo
melanism
mromyosin
multiple-address message
Narowal
neutron prompt
norms for family size
NTMS
oneiroanalysis
personal-income
Piercebridge
pommed
primitivization
production-consumption
propositioning
quoths
rack earth
radiation protection personnel
radioactive air monitoring system
Rejoicing of the Law
relative transformation
retallack
rhachiotomy
rhodymenia palmatas
river offset
salvia clareas
sauvy
sheddens
siel
sill basin
Sonja
spindle horn
splash-proof enclosure
standards of consumption
starch noodle
superlattice reflection
supporting-actor
surface manoeuvring
tajh
talweg
tanatarite
tars us
torain
transport symbol
triphenylmethane dyestuffs
tympanic ligament
uniform cantilever beam
uniform extention
utriculiform
valve seat holder
wlog