最后一朵菊花
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最后一朵菊花
《最后一朵菊花》是托马斯.哈代的诗歌，托马斯·哈代(1840-1928) 英国伟大的现实主义作家、诗人。主要作品有小说《苔丝》、《还乡》，诗集《韦塞克斯诗集》、《今昔诗集》、《时光的笑柄》、《早期与晚期抒情诗》、诗剧《列王》等。
The Last Chrysanthemum 1
by Thomas Hardy 2
Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes 3?
Now is the time of plaintive 4 robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.
这朵菊花为何留得如此长久，
来显示自己震颤的羽绒？
现在已是知更鸟哀鸣的时刻，
当花儿已经葬入了坟冢。
Through the slow summer, when the sun
Called to each frond 5 and whorl
That all he could for flowers was being done,
Why did it not uncurl?
在漫长的夏季，束束阳光
被邀探访片片叶儿和花瓣，
太阳为花朵做完了该做的事情，
这朵花那时为何没有开放？
It must have felt that fervid 6 call
Although it took no heed 7,
Waking but now, when leaves like corpses 8 fall,
And saps all retrocede.
它一定感到那炽热的召唤，
尽管丝毫也没有留心，
但现在已苏醒，当树叶僵尸般掉落，
当树液纷纷地隐身。
Too late its beauty, lonely thing,
The season's shine is spent,
Nothing remains 9 for it but shivering
In tempests turbulent.
它的美色来得太晚，孤独的东西，
季节的光辉已经耗完，
什么也没有为它留下，它只好
在狂暴的风雪中震颤。
Had it a reason for delay,
Dreaming in witlessness
That for a bloom so delicately gay
Winter would stay its stress?
难道它有原因逗留，
没有头脑地异想天开，
对于一朵娇嫩美丽的鲜花，
酷冬定会抑制自己的残害？
- I talk as if the thing were born
With sense to work its mind;
Yet it is but one mask of many worn
By the Great Face behind.
－－瞧我说的，仿佛花朵
生来就有思维的能力；
然而这只是许多面具中的一个，
被戴于背后的上帝。
n.菊，菊花
- Each mourner wore a black armband and a white paper chrysanthemum.每个吊唁的人都佩带着黑纱和一朵白纸菊花。
- There are many species of chrysanthemum.菊花品种很多。
adj.勇敢的，果断的，吃苦的；耐寒的
- The kind of plant is a hardy annual.这种植物是耐寒的一年生植物。
- He is a hardy person.他是一个能吃苦耐劳的人。
羽毛( plume的名词复数 )； 羽毛饰； 羽毛状物； 升上空中的羽状物
- The dancer wore a headdress of pink ostrich plumes. 那位舞蹈演员戴着粉色鸵鸟毛制作的头饰。
- The plumes on her bonnet barely moved as she nodded. 她点点头，那帽子的羽毛在一个劲儿颤动。
adj.可怜的，伤心的
- Her voice was small and plaintive.她的声音微弱而哀伤。
- Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.观众席里，一位老太太伤心地哭起来。
n.棕榈类植物的叶子
- The weavers made a hat from palm fronds.织工用棕榈叶织成了一顶帽子。
- The village hut was thatched with palm fronds.乡村小屋用棕榈叶作顶。
adj.热情的；炽热的
- He is a fervid orator.他是个慷慨激昂的演说者。
- He was a ready scholar as you are,but more fervid and impatient.他是一个聪明的学者，跟你一样，不过更加热情而缺乏耐心。
v.注意，留意；n.注意，留心
- You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
- For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
n.死尸，尸体( corpse的名词复数 )
- The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云，同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
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