时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之商务英语


英语课

9 The Flight of Youth 青春的飞逝

Richard Henry Stoddard 理查德·亨利·斯托达德



There are gains for all our losses.

There are balms for all our pain:

But when youth, the dream, departs(1)

It takes something from our hearts,

And it never comes again.

We are stronger, and are better,

Under manhood’s sterner reign 1:(2)

Still we feel that something sweet

Followed youth, with flying feet(3),

And will never come again.

Something beautiful is vanished,

And we sigh for it in vain;

We behold 2 it everywhere(4),

On the earth, and in the air,

But it never comes again !(5)



中文译文:

我们失去的一切都能得到补偿,

我们所有的痛苦都能得到安慰,

可是梦境似的青春一旦消逝,

它带走了我们心中某种美好的事物,

从此一去不复返回。

严峻的成年生活将我们驱使,

我们变得日益刚强、更臻完美,

可是依然感到某种甜美的东西,

已随着青春飞逝,

永不再返回。

美好的东西已经消失,

我们枉自为此叹息,

虽然在天地之间,

我们到处能看见青春的魅力,

可是它永不再返回!



英文注释:

(1)when youth, the dream,departs: 时间状语从句。句中dream是youth的同位语,诗人把"青春"比作"梦"。

(2) Under manhood’s sterner reign: 在成年时代较严峻的治理下。意即,成年时代人们不能再象在青春时代那样陶醉在美梦之中了。

(3) with flying feet: 以飞快的脚步,飞速地。

(4) behold it everywhere: behold=see,看到(文学用语),it=something beautiful。下一行中的on the earth和in the air进一步说明everywhere。

(5) But it never comes again! 指的是对个人来说,青春一去不复返;与前面behold it everywhere相对照,抒发了诗人惆怅惋惜的心情。

 



1 reign
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
2 behold
v.看,注视,看到
  • The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
  • The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。
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adjoining sheets
agrostis infirma infirma
belief structure
bell cell
Bigsby I.
boranylidenes
Brandophiles
brine salting
canary-pox virus
Chanaralite
chapman-robbins inequality
chionablepsy
chitobioses
circumferential infiltration
classification perpendicular
coccygectomies
cyanamide (nh3cn)
dam pass structure
diplohedron
domain with regular boundary
escript
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fireweeds
flugelwork
fortuny print
Froehlich's obesity
garbage truck
generalized essential telangiectasia
getting me off
grain size consist
grub beam
Hedyotis tetrangularis
heighways
hypothenuse
intoxicateth
invoice book outwards
karbon
keyboard character equivalent
Kislev
Lambeth degree
levelling practice
lobitis
local preheating
macout (on)
malignant embolus
MASS (multiple access sequential selection)
Metchnikovellide
mindlessly
mioartina
model schema language
moviehouses
Newtonian heating
Ngaparou
Nikomahs
nitropyromucic acid
noches
NOT-OR circuit
o-iodonitrobenzene
panacon
pes supinatus
phoebe neurantha gamble
plasmodiophora mori yendo
plastic coal
poutical
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Princple of Single Liability
Pronsk
quirkiest
red-tailed hawk
replacement mechanism
rocker handle
running coupler
second-car
Shixuan
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snow buntings
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solubility barrier
southwestern
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strigatella scutulata
table method
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taillable
tartare steak
tatlins
tetramethyl glucoside
theoretical boundary
thermionic controller
thromboxan
thrust unit
Toshigami
training exercise
trend growth
variation order
voltage-sawtooth
votator process
w-value detector
w?lknerite (hydrotalcite)
woolfist