时间:2018-12-14 作者:英语课 分类:迪斯尼儿歌第三集


英语课


My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf.
So it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller by half than the old man himself.
Thought it weighed not a penny weight more.
It was bought on the mom of the day that he was born.
And was always hid treasure and pride.
But it stopped short, never to go again.
When the old man died,
In watching it’s pendulum 1 swing to and for
Many hours hand he spent while a boy
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know.
And to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty-four when he entered at the door.
With a blooming and beautiful bride.
But it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Ninety years without slumbering 2 (tick, tick, tick, tick)
His life seconds numbering (tick, tick,tick,tick)
it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
My grandfather said that od those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
For it wasted no time and had but one desire.
At the close of each week-to be would
And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face.
And its hands never hug by its side.
But it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night.
An alarm that for years had been dumb
And we knew that his spirit was pluming 3 for flight
That his hour of departure had come
Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled 4 chime
As we silently stood by his side.
But it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tick, tick, tick)
His life seconds numbering (tick, tick,tick,tick)
It stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.


 



1 pendulum
n.摆,钟摆
  • The pendulum swung slowly to and fro.钟摆在慢慢地来回摆动。
  • He accidentally found that the desk clock did not swing its pendulum.他无意中发现座钟不摇摆了。
2 slumbering
微睡,睡眠(slumber的现在分词形式)
  • It was quiet. All the other inhabitants of the slums were slumbering. 贫民窟里的人已经睡眠静了。
  • Then soft music filled the air and soothed the slumbering heroes. 接着,空中响起了柔和的乐声,抚慰着安睡的英雄。
3 pluming
用羽毛装饰(plume的现在分词形式)
  • The two birds were pluming their wings on the tree. 两只鸟正在树上整理他们的翅膀。
  • The chimneys were pluming the sky; The engine was pluming black smoke. 发动机正在喷射一缕缕轻烟。
4 muffled
adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己)
  • muffled voices from the next room 从隔壁房间里传来的沉闷声音
  • There was a muffled explosion somewhere on their right. 在他们的右面什么地方有一声沉闷的爆炸声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
allelopathy among same plants
amoeboflagellates
automatic data handling system
be all jaw
bibliopolical
breeze coke
brown-bagging
built by licensor
bulking liquor
classical function theory
clay triangle
cohabiting
colo(u)r encoder
contract management region
contrast echocardiography
damage by wind
designate
dipsophobiac
disconfirmed
discounting notes and acceptances receivable
disillusionise
divergently
divers-
draught gage
Ehweiler
epimythium
face-priority AF
field-formatted form
fiskes
give off something
illiberalizing
in good odor
in that regard
interscapulium
IT-outsourcing
karter
klondikers
latches onto
leafrollers
Les Avirons
lift slack-cable-switch
Ligusticum thomsonii
Loiza
main pole gap
media card
mimar
misgovernaunce
mold plan
molerats
monocolour radiation
Naru-shima
nervi rectales craniales
non-sterilizing immunity
nonbiting
once-lucrative
one-two punch
optically oriented clay of laminated form
pechar
phone sth in
plate fin cooler
poposulfan
Pplan
professional colour television
PTERASPIDAE
quadratic functional
quasi-phase space
quick-setting additive
quickeningly
Ramboesque
ratio between industry and agriculture
re-format
rectangular register
retail rate
risklessness
Rochechouart
row width
sales returns and allowance journal
salt water evaporator
Saxifraga chumbiensis
Schwarzenau
sea level density
skringe
sludge collector
soul-friend
spatial mode
sportsjacket
superlanguage
Swap Spread
tara vines
think with one's little head
to rock the boat
ulusows
unit delay operator
unsacredly
utility indifference curve
valve input capacitance
vapor seal
variance between primary sample units
willebrord
winterland
wood-ash black
zeroni