原版英文故事与诗歌：Town & Country
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：原版英文故事与诗歌
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
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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！
- 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。