散文：Bee! I'm expecting you!

Bee!  I'm expecting you!

Was saying Yesterday

To Somebody you know

That you were due -

 

The Frogs got Home last Week -

Are settled, and at work -

Birds, mostly back -

The Clover warm and thick -

 

You'll get my Letter by

The seventeenth;  Reply

Or better, be with me -

Yours, Fly.

 

In this lovely poem, the Fly "types" a brief note to its friend - the Bee, hopping¹ from key to key. The Fly exhorts² the Bee to come quickly and join in the days of Summer. An example of a narrative³ poetry.

1 hopping   

n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The clubs in town are really hopping. 城里的俱乐部真够热闹的。
• I'm hopping over to Paris for the weekend. 我要去巴黎度周末。

2 exhorts   

n.劝勉者，告诫者，提倡者( exhort的名词复数 )v.劝告，劝说( exhort的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He begs me, exhorts me, commands me to work. 他请求我，劝导我，命令我工作。 来自辞典例句
• The dialogue continues, with the banks demurely declining as the government exhorts. 政府试图说服银行，而银行则更加保守，双飞的对话仍在继续。 来自互联网

3 narrative   

n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的

参考例句：

• He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
• Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。