【英语时差8,16】春之诗

Poetry of Spring “…Come o’er the eastern hills, and let our winds kiss my perfumed garments; let us taste they morn and evening breath; scatter¹ thy pearls upon our lovesick land that mourns for thee.” A more modern poet Siegfried Sassoon wrote a poem in 1935 that he called, “Vigil in Spring” “The night air, smelling cold with spring And the dark twigs² of towering trees, When age remembers youth, we bring Aliveness back to us in these. Leaning from windows on the gloom, We are one with purpling woods and wet Wild violets of our earth in whom Aliveness wakes and wonders yet. In breadth awareness³, hushed and cold, Of growths announcement thrust and thrill. We learn from lifetime, growing old, And feel your starlit magic still.” Sassoon grasps at the coming of spring as if he can share in the rejuvenation⁴ of the earth, and recapture the aliveness of his youth, as the sap rises in the trees. Images of rebirth and new beginnings and the miracle of those first tiny buds, abound⁵ in poetry.

1 scatter   

vt.撒，驱散，散开；散布/播；vi.分散，消散

参考例句：

• You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。
• Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。

2 twigs   

细枝，嫩枝( twig的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Some birds build nests of twigs. 一些鸟用树枝筑巢。
• Willow twigs are pliable. 柳条很软。

3 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

4 rejuvenation   

n. 复原，再生, 更新, 嫩化, 恢复

参考例句：

• Prolonged starvation and aging might lead to rejuvenation of embryogenic potential. 长期的饥饿和衰老可以导致胚胎发生能力的复壮。
• All this signs rejuvenation of agriculture. 所有这些都预示着农业将复苏。

5 abound   

vi.大量存在；(in，with)充满，富于

参考例句：

• Oranges abound here all the year round.这里一年到头都有很多橙子。
• But problems abound in the management of State-owned companies.但是在国有企业的管理中仍然存在不少问题。