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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

I reckon2

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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1 cracker svCz5a     
n.(无甜味的)薄脆饼干
参考例句:
  • Buy me some peanuts and cracker.给我买一些花生和饼干。
  • There was a cracker beside every place at the table.桌上每个位置旁都有彩包爆竹。
2 reckon VAwzK     
vt.计算,估计,认为;vi.计(算),判断,依靠
参考例句:
  • Don't reckon upon your relatives to help you out of trouble.不要指望你的亲戚会帮助你摆脱困境。
  • I reckon that he is rather too old to marry again.我认为他的年龄太大,不太适于再婚。
3 jittery jittery     
adj. 神经过敏的, 战战兢兢的
参考例句:
  • However, nothing happened though he continued to feel jittery. 可是,自从拉上这辆车,并没有出什么错儿,虽然他心中嘀嘀咕咕的不安。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
  • The thirty-six Enterprise divebombers were being squandered in a jittery shot from the hip. 这三十六架“企业号”上的俯冲轰炸机正被孤注一掷。

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