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
a priest of Bacchus
acetosulfone
affiches
alpheus canaliculatus
alpine ashes
apparent flow
ashore and adrift
Bad Gandersheim
brain-teasing
bronchostenotic
built-in head lamp
bursting explosive
chemosorptions
chlamys nobilis
cocardes
compleats
comte de rochambeaus
core print seat
cut the connection
decentred
desludging
dimmety
duesberg
dynamic belay
dyplitite (dyslytite)
dysentery bacillus
effective fragment
electrode system of arc furnace
electronic relaxation polarization
emacses
ex post facto approval
fadhila
far-east athletic association
finialed
flange-pipe
fluid pressure
fungus proof
goat boating
gross domestic product at market prices
Heim's pills
hethorn
hot water regulating valve
ice vinegar
impact environment
insafety
J-SEAD
kankkunens
lamellar fusion
literary context
livened up
low-mass x-ray binary
manning's formula marginal land
masner
Montbrió de Tarragona
mulago
mutual society
neo-nazi
neonatorum tetanus
oil embargo
olcan
Otali
overnight service
pale grey-blue
pawky
peace-louing
plantalgya
projected window
range elevation indicator
rated restoring voltage
relative pitch-shortening value
reliable evidence
rode away
roller sweling
satellite probe
sena
serrate serrated
Shotley
simultaneous summation
Sphaceloma
subject case
suffarcinate
syllabifying
theory of consumer's choice
toilet-room
tool post wrench
tour lent
triacetyloleandomycin
trinitrofluorenone
tuning-fork transducer
twin-engine aircraft
Tîchît, Dahr
under carriage bracing
Vallets mass
vandenboschia pyxidifera copel.
vema
vertical position welding
vibration recorder
vincapusine
visual art
volatilize
with economy
youth hostels