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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acre-breadth
adjustment of assets values
aerotactical
audiomonitor
B-films
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be no spring chicken
Benodet
berehove (beregovo)
betelnuts
bingham's distribution
blum reagent
bottle-bank
bucolone
budgetary engineer
cache control register
carbobenzoxyglycine
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coffle
compound fault
confidential report
cyanogen chloride
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direct-writing galvanometer
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elliptical truncation
everflowing
fifteen puzzle
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forestia scabra
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funnel cap
gadiformess
gaigerias
genus Rutilus
greater panda
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Hippel-Lindua
Illicium minwanense
inbound
initialization of algorithm
inquire response
kead
kir-hareseth
komenich
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legal consideration
lemas
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lot-sizing method
mesona chinensis benth.
methylstyrene rubber
mucor parvispora
Muhammadgarh
multiple model pricing
nerve concussion
network-neutrality
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ortho-isomer
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phosphorylable
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preproduction-type test
prior trustee
psoriasic
radio wind sounding
relief telescope
repeat engagement
restricted element
RF preselector
roaming-rights
sarcolemma
SBFI
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sedan cruiser
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selective cryptographic session
send sb into bankrupt
shear machine
Silene scopulorum
space database
special load
stagger amplifier
sunspot
tachometer stop gear
taxed costs
tigerton
total risk factor
tracee
trample upon
trichotropid
wag one's tongue
webs
weissert