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
...like anything
a duck of a
acts of God clause
adiabatic-expansion
air-depolarized battery
alcogels
army man
ball lamp
bar association
be nonplussed over sth
bescatters
biomacromolecule
buy cheap and sell dear
Bφrtervatna
Cardoverine
chop thresher plant
chronic effect
co-planar motion
Coltramyl
convertirse
coolley, Charles Horton
cotton manufactured goods
crack failure
crypsinus taeniatus copel. var palmatus tagawa
crypto-suite
cucalorus
cunstable
deballed
dockser
Dokshytsy
Eleutherococcus scandens
ending fitting
energy crude
engraved roller
equal signs
Erlang distribution Erlangian distribution
evangelicalism
falconids
fearlac
feather duster
feeler gauge
flower tiles
forward momentum
holy-water basin
hydraulic-powered wiper motor
immunohistochemical method
infragraph
insignments
inspissatus
institute of precautions
instrument lubricant
insulated gin
interfascicular
iron(iii) selenite
jam-filled
kitchen ranges
levee front
lien on cargo
loss-of-coolant
low-energy X-ray diagnostics
management committee
marchionat
may-aug
mixed business
nephrodium gracilescens hook.
netanya
New York Yankees
nutrient potential
Olea brachiata
one-arm joint
partnership with limited liability
pasture harrow
pernicious
postacrosomal sheath
prostrate oneself
prothrombin time
quells
rate-of-change circuit
S-plasty
saccharometabolic
Schopfipollenites
sedimentation reservoir
seething
seismic absorption
shake off the other ship
sign pro
steam reciprocating engine
sub data base
submissioner
take tea with sb
take under your wing
tangled grain
tegolophus melicopi
tin-foil electrode
trackless vehicle
ulmus bergmanniana schneid.
unmanned seismic observatory
upping
Veluws
venemous
very perfect
Y block