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(单词翻译)
Invention — Billy Collins
创作——比利·科林斯
Tonight the moon is a cracker1,
今晚的月亮是块
with a bite out of it
被咬掉一口的薄脆饼干
floating in the night,
飘飘荡荡浮在夜天,
and in a week or so
按照日历
according to the calendar
约莫一周时间
it will probably look
它看似大概会
like a silver football,
象个银色的橄榄球,
and nine, maybe ten days ago
而九天, 或许十天之前
it reminded me of a thin bright claw.
它使我想起一个薄明的蟹钳
But eventually —
可渐渐地——
by the end of the month,
到这个月底
我推断——
it will waste away
它将消瘦至
to nothing,
身影全无
nothing but stars in the sky,
天上只留繁星点点,
and I will have a few nights
而对我自己来说
to myself,
会有几个夜晚
a little time to rest my jittery3 pen.
让我极度紧张的笔得以休闲
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cracker
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| n.(无甜味的)薄脆饼干 | |
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reckon
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| vt.计算,估计,认为;vi.计(算),判断,依靠 | |
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jittery
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| adj. 神经过敏的, 战战兢兢的 | |
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