NPR poetry Month: Vince Staples Reads His Favorite Twitter Poems
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台4月
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Now it's time for more Twitter poetry. Here's one from Dave Paulsen in Minnesota.
DAVE PAULSEN: String cheese. You think you're so smart, shedding your skin like a cylindrical 1 reptile 2. Take heed 3, though, little dairy product. Your changes are numbered.
MARTIN: Now we asked Dave if this poem came out of some kind of epic 4 string cheese struggle, and he replied think of it as a statement about all of our struggles with hubris 5 and an eventual 6 vulnerability to change. All, of course, embodied 7 within a tasty dairy snack. And there was a winky face emoji at the end. OK. Let's hear it again, this time through that filter of existential angst.
PAULSEN: String cheese. You think you're so smart, shedding your skin like a cylindrical reptile. Take heed, though, little dairy product. Your changes are numbered.
MARTIN: Thank you, Dave Paulsen. And it's not all fun and games and dairy products on our Twitter feed. There are a lot of thoughtful reflections on nature and identity which makes it a good time to turn it over to rapper Vince Staples 8. He came to our studios for an interview which you will hear later this hour. But while he was here, we asked him to check out #NPRpoetry and read a couple of his favorites.
VINCE STAPLES: My name is Vince Staples, and I'm going to read a couple of poems for tweet poems for poetry month. This is by Jack 9 Mayer M.D. (ph). (Reading) I am a god to the birds.
Great work. This is by Frooz Bashar (ph) (reading) we're mammals with money, people, mammals with money.
That [expletive] is deep.
MARTIN: Yes. That stuff is deep, although mammals with money is not really a Twitter poem. It's actually a quote from our colleague Sabri Ben-Achour in a Marketplace report - poetic 10 though.
If you have any poetic insights, remember all this month you can tweet your original poems to us with a hashtag #NPRpoetry. We might just reach out and ask you to read it on the air.
- The frog is not a true reptile.青蛙并非真正的爬行动物。
- So you should not be surprised to see someone keep a reptile as a pet.所以，你不必惊奇有人养了一只爬行动物作为宠物。
- 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。
- I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
- They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
- There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
- The very hubris of French claims alarmed the other powers.法国贪婪的胃口使其他大国惊恐不安。
- Several schools face eventual closure.几所学校面临最终关闭。
- Both parties expressed optimism about an eventual solution.双方对问题的最终解决都表示乐观。
- a politician who embodied the hopes of black youth 代表黑人青年希望的政治家
- The heroic deeds of him embodied the glorious tradition of the troops. 他的英雄事迹体现了军队的光荣传统。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly. 订书机上的铁砧安装错位。 来自辞典例句
- I'm trying to make an analysis of the staples of his talk. 我在试行分析他的谈话的要旨。 来自辞典例句
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。