Joel 约珥书01
1The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers 1?
3Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
4What the locust 2 swarm 3 has left the great locusts 4 have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.
5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail 5, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
6A nation has invaded my land, powerful and without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs 6 of a lioness.
7It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig 7 trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.
8Mourn like a virgin 8 in sackcloth grieving for the husband of her youth.
9Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord . The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the Lord .
10The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up ; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails.
11Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley 9, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
12The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered 10; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree- all the trees of the field-are dried up. Surely the joy of mankind is withered away.
13Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld 11 from the house of your God.
14Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord .
15Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty 12.
16Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes- joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
18How the cattle moan! The herds 13 mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
19To you, O Lord , I call, for fire has devoured 14 the open pastures and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
20Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the open pastures.
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left. 它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- All of us bristled at the lawyer's speech insulting our forefathers. 听到那个律师在讲演中污蔑我们的祖先，大家都气得怒发冲冠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- A locust is a kind of destructive insect.蝗虫是一种害虫。
- This illustration shows a vertical section through the locust.本图所示为蝗虫的纵剖面。
- There is a swarm of bees in the tree.这树上有一窝蜜蜂。
- A swarm of ants are moving busily.一群蚂蚁正在忙碌地搬家。
- a swarm of locusts 一大群蝗虫
- In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything. 很快蝗虫就飞落下来开始吃东西，什么都吃。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- One of the small children began to wail with terror.小孩中的一个吓得大哭起来。
- The dog fleshed his fangs in the deer's leg. 狗用尖牙咬住了鹿腿。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Dogs came lunging forward with their fangs bared. 狗龇牙咧嘴地扑过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The doctor finished the fig he had been eating and selected another.这位医生吃完了嘴里的无花果，又挑了一个。
- You can't find a person who doesn't know fig in the United States.你找不到任何一个在美国的人不知道无花果的。
- Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
- There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。
- They looked out across the fields of waving barley.他们朝田里望去,只见大麦随风摇摆。
- He cropped several acres with barley.他种了几英亩大麦。
- I withheld payment until they had fulfilled the contract. 他们履行合同后，我才付款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- There was no school play because the principal withheld his consent. 由于校长没同意，学校里没有举行比赛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Those rebels did not really challenge Gods almighty power.这些叛徒没有对上帝的全能力量表示怀疑。
- It's almighty cold outside.外面冷得要命。