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课文助读(十) Using Language
教材原文助读
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①keep up with 赶得上;和……保持联系
②string n.细绳;线;一串 vt.悬挂;系 adj.弦乐器的;线织的
③wherever conj.在任何地方;在所有……的情况下 adv.(用于问句)究竟在(到)哪里
④barren adj.贫瘠的;不结果实的
⑤grief n.悲伤;悲痛;伤心事
to one's grief 令某人悲痛的是
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WIND ON THE HILL
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with① it,
Not if I ran.
[1]But if I stopped holding
The string② of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
[2]Wherever③ it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes...
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
A.A.Milne
[1]本句是虚拟条件句,表示与现在事实相反的假设,从句谓语用过去时态,主句谓语用“would+动词原形”。
[2]此处wherever引导让步状语从句,wherever意为“无论哪里”。
DREAM
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a brokenwinged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams,
For when dreams go
Life is a barren④ field
Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes
A MATCH
If love were what the rose is,
And I were the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Brown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pleasure or grey grief⑤;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.
A.C.Swinburne
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山风
没有人能告诉我,
也没有人知道,
风来自哪里。
又将去往何处。
它从一个地方吹来,
尽它所能,飞快地吹来,
我追赶不上它的脚步,
即使我奔跑。
但倘若我松开,
那牵着风筝的线,
风就会带着它远走,
一天一夜。
后来当我发现它,
无论它被吹到什么地方,
我会知道风,
也曾经去过那里。
所以那时我便能告诉他们,
风往何处去……
但是风从哪里来,
仍无人知晓。
——A.A.米尔恩
梦想
紧紧抓住梦想,
因为梦想若是逝去,
生命就像鸟儿折断了翅膀,
再也不能飞翔。
紧紧抓住梦想,
因为梦想一旦消逝,
生活变成荒芜的田野,
被冰封雪盖。
——兰斯顿·休斯
佳偶
爱情若是玫瑰,
我便是绿叶,
花和叶同生同长,
沐阳光或披风霜,
在花坞或田野里,
共担忧伤共喜悦,
爱情若是玫瑰,
我便是绿叶。
——A.C.斯温伯恩
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