Isaiah 以赛亚书18
时间：2019-01-17 作者：英语课 分类：圣经旧约 以赛亚书
英语课
18Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush,
2which sends envoys 1 by sea in papyrus 2 boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
3All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet 3 sounds, you will hear it.
4This is what the Lord says to me: "I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling 4 place, like shimmering 5 heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
5For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening 6 grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning 7 knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey 8 and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.
7At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty 9 from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers- the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.
2which sends envoys 1 by sea in papyrus 2 boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
3All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet 3 sounds, you will hear it.
4This is what the Lord says to me: "I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling 4 place, like shimmering 5 heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
5For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening 6 grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning 7 knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey 8 and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.
7At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty 9 from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers- the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.
使节( envoy的名词复数 )； 公使； 谈判代表； 使节身份
- the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
- Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
n.古以纸草制成之纸
- The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.埃及人书写用薄草纸。
- Since papyrus dries up and crumble,very few documents of ancient Egypt have survived.因草片会干裂成粉末所以古埃及的文件很少保存下来。
n.喇叭，喇叭声；v.吹喇叭，吹嘘
- He plays the violin, but I play the trumpet.他拉提琴，我吹喇叭。
- The trumpet sounded for battle.战斗的号角吹响了。
n.住宅，住所，寓所
- Those two men are dwelling with us.那两个人跟我们住在一起。
- He occupies a three-story dwelling place on the Park Street.他在派克街上有一幢3层楼的寓所。
v.闪闪发光，发微光( shimmer的现在分词 )
- The sea was shimmering in the sunlight. 阳光下海水波光闪烁。
- The colours are delicate and shimmering. 这些颜色柔和且闪烁微光。 来自辞典例句
v.成熟，使熟( ripen的现在分词 )；熟化；熟成
- The corn is blossoming [ripening]. 玉米正在开花[成熟]。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- When the summer crop is ripening, the autumn crop has to be sowed. 夏季作物成熟时，就得播种秋季作物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.修枝，剪枝，修剪v.修剪（树木等）( prune的现在分词 )；精简某事物，除去某事物多余的部分
- In writing an essay one must do a lot of pruning. 写文章要下一番剪裁的工夫。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- A sapling needs pruning, a child discipline. 小树要砍，小孩要管。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨
- Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
- The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。