早安英文 第26期:蝈蝈与蛐蛐

 引：

养几个孩子是我人生的愿望

我喜欢他们围绕在我身旁

如果这纷乱的世界让我沮丧

就去看看他们眼中的光芒

总有一天我会越来越忙

还好孩子总是给我希望

「中英文诗词」

On the Grasshopper¹ and Cricket

BY JOHN KEATS

The Poetry of earth is never dead:

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,

And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead²;

That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead

In summer luxury,—he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone³ winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought⁴ a silence, from the stove there shrills⁵

The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness⁶ half lost,

The Grasshopper’s among some grassy⁷ hills.

蝈蝈与蛐蛐

夏天，所有的鸟

都热晕了

躲在绿荫里不出声

只有蝈蝈开心地

在草地和树篱间歌唱

累了，就找一片大叶子

睡上一觉

冬天，雪花纷飞

好安静啊

蛐蛐在火炉边

哼一支小曲

它越唱越带劲

嗓门那么大

我迷迷糊糊的，觉得

这就是夏天山坡上

唱歌的那只蝈蝈。

1 grasshopper   

n.蚱蜢，蝗虫，蚂蚱

参考例句：

• He thought he had made an end of the little grasshopper.他以为把那个小蚱蜢干掉了。
• The grasshopper could not find anything to eat.蚱蜢找不到任何吃的东西。

2 mead   

n.蜂蜜酒

参考例句：

• He gave me a cup of mead.他给我倒了杯蜂蜜酒。
• He drank some mead at supper.晚饭时他喝了一些蜂蜜酒。

3 lone   

adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的

参考例句：

• A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
• She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。

4 wrought   

v.引起；以…原料制作；运转；adj.制造的

参考例句：

• Events in Paris wrought a change in British opinion towards France and Germany.巴黎发生的事件改变了英国对法国和德国的看法。
• It's a walking stick with a gold head wrought in the form of a flower.那是一个金质花形包头的拐杖。

5 shrills   

（声音）尖锐的，刺耳的，高频率的( shrill的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The locust shrills his song of heat. 蝉儿唱出炎热季节的欢歌。

6 drowsiness   

n.睡意；嗜睡

参考例句：

• A feeling of drowsiness crept over him. 一种昏昏欲睡的感觉逐渐袭扰着他。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This decision reached, he finally felt a placid drowsiness steal over him. 想到这，来了一点平安的睡意。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

7 grassy   

adj.盖满草的；长满草的

参考例句：

• They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
• Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。