时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文故事与诗歌


英语课

Poetry as a Foreign Languageby Mike Ramsden"...Not really sure I'll get much out of it,

Understand what's going on,"

I whined 1 and vacillated.

I was assured he was big

(Though not in size)

Old, blind and from the capital.

So in I went with the rest of the faculty 2

To the biggest hall on campus,

Packed with more than I'd ever seen before

And when the applause started from the back

And advanced with him to the front,

It was not polite or respectful

But loud and from beyond the palms of hands,

And they were standing 3 and clapping

The old blind poet right up to the stage

With videocams and flashlights on his face

And I knew I'd not seen the likes of this before,

And not only the intoning of the country's prayers

But the readings from the campus luminaries 4,

Strong declamatory stuff,

Speaking to the audience. You could

Tell this because they'd clap and cheer

Right in the middle of the poet's flow.

All this told me it was not like

My home, my country,

And when the old poet began...

But why go on?


Well, yes, I told myself,

A different tradition,

An oral society, the public

Gesture, their particular

Stage of development,

The revolution, nationhood.

The excuses flooded in.

Yes, I understood in the end.

This was not British.

This was not our language at all.


 



v.哀号( whine的过去式和过去分词 );哀诉,诉怨
  • The dog whined at the door, asking to be let out. 狗在门前嚎叫着要出去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • He whined and pouted when he did not get what he wanted. 他要是没得到想要的东西就会发牢骚、撅嘴。 来自辞典例句
n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员
  • He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
  • He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.杰出人物,名人(luminary的复数形式)
  • In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. 亚14:6那日、必没有光.三光必退缩。 来自互联网
  • Includes household filament light bulbs & luminaries. 包括家用的白炙灯泡和光源。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a. perinealis
accrued charge
acoustic magnetic mine
adlecting
administration of internal affairs
Aflogualnum
ai chi
alternative procedure
ampholite
art and part
artificial caving
assidue
base of petroleum
black cottonwood
blue-green bacterium
bursting speed
cascading down
centricdiatom
cloud-bases
complementary scale
consistorial
conventional-arms
counter-cast
Crista sacralis intermedia
Cynwyl Elfed
Daphne holosericea
departmental arrangement and distribution in commodity stock
Direct Copper Blue 2R
disinflations
drip channel
event oriented simulation
eye-serve
factorization method
facular
Fentathienil
flower
geomagnetic periodic variation
go yachting.
group demodulator filter
harpending
hepatitis sequestrans
information management program
initial overburden pressure
insulation varnish
intrapore
inverse beta process
journal box lid hinge
lanatest
light pressure separator
Lothair
megalodiscs
merry-go-round
monoethanolamine(surfactant)
moving current-weighted Passche indexes
neutralizing water tank
new staff
Nihon-maru
non-specified-time relay
nuclear quadrupole spectrum
oil pressure switch
one-cancels-the-other order
orbit maneuver engine
output transfer function
Pare's suture
plain shank
plant hole
poikilosmotic character
preregeneration
progressive wave
pushback
put somebody up to
RCITR
reducing capacity
reductive alkylation
regional index call warrant
RFRNA
Rhodiola wallichiana
Richardson's ground squirrel
rosette phyllotaxy
semi-tractor
sexlessnesses
sgd.
shell tuck
sickling diathesis
simple deterministic language
spaces out
spantik
spread back
sugarcane top
system of gravitational unit
tea-tree
telephone bills
tiled mode
use test
vendibler
vertical decomposition
voltage and frequency response
wear plate
Y ligament
Yang Shiying
zori