听播客学英语 249 Eden Rock
时间：2019-03-01 作者：英语课 分类：听播客学英语
英语课
I have another poem for you today. It is called “Eden Rock” and it is by Charles Causley, who lived in Cornwall in the far south-west of England.
In the poem he imagines his parents as they were when they were young. His father is wearing a tweed suit, and his dog Jack 1 is with him. His mother has spread out a cloth on the grass for a picnic. She pours tea out of a vacum flask 2 (a Thermos) and milk from a bottle. She sets out plates and cups for the picnic. She shades her eyes with her hand and looks towards her son. His father spins a stone so that it bounces on the surface of the stream. They wave to their son and call to him to cross over the stream to them.
Charles Causley wrote this poem when he was an old man. He is of course imagining his own death – crossing over the stream to join his parents. He says in the last line of the poem, “I had not thought that it would be like this.”
If you go to the podcast website (http://www.listen-to-english.com/) you will find a link to the text of the poem. You can then click on the audio button to hear Charles Causley himself reading it.
Note : In one of the lines of the poem, it says “She pours milk straight from an old H P Sauce bottle”. HP Sauce is a brown-coloured sauce that some people pour on their chips. It is one of the reasons why English food is despised 3 throughout the civilised world. HP Sauce is made here in Birmingham. Sadly, the HP sauce factory will soon close. Production is to be transferred to the Netherlands.
n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克
- 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。
n.瓶，火药筒，砂箱
- There is some deposit in the bottom of the flask.这只烧杯的底部有些沉淀物。
- He took out a metal flask from a canvas bag.他从帆布包里拿出一个金属瓶子。
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