ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

原文與注釋(Text and Annotation): VII

7. (Summary)
Behold the Child among his newborn blisses,
A six years' Darling of a pygmy size!
See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,
Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,
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With light upon him from his father's eyes!  
See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,
Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;
    A wedding or a festival,
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    A mourning or a funeral;
 
        And this hath now his heart,  
    And unto this he frames his song:
        Then will he fit his tongue
To dialogues of business, love, or strife;
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        But it will not be long  
        Ere this be thrown aside,
        And with new joy and pride  
The little actor cons another part;
Filling from time to time his "humorous stage"
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With all the Persons, down to palsied Age,
That Life brings with her in her equipage;
        As if his whole vocation
        Were endless imitation.
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第七節大意：就這樣，孩童們快快樂樂的過其家庭生活。並且迷惑於世俗的事物，不斷的效仿成人的行徑。[back]
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 newborn 新生的。
blisses 福佑，喜悅。[back]
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 six-years' Darling 一般認為指的是Coleridge之子Hartley。
pygmy very smail.[back]
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 'mid amidst被…包圍。
of his own hand of his own making自己製造的。[back]
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 Fretted teased逗惱。
Sallies playful attacks戲謔。[back]
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 plan or chart 計劃與圖表。[back]
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 fragment 片斷。[back]
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 newly-learned art 剛學到的技巧。[back]
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 festival 慶。[back]
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 mourning 喪。[back]
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 frames 編（歌）。[back]
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 fit his tongue adapt his tongue，改口說。[back]
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 strife 爭鬥。[back]
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 thrown aside 棄置一旁。[back]
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 cons studies; learns, 學。
Part 角色。[back]
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 humorous stage 反覆無常的舞台，有各種不同的角色。"humorous stage"一語出自伊莉莎白時期詩人Samuel Daniel的一首十四行詩。在Daniel時代，humorous意謂capricious (fanciful反覆無常的)同時也指戲劇中出現的各種不同人物及性格。[back]
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 palsied Age 癱瘓的歲月，指老年期。[back]
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 equipage 行列。[back]
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 vocation 使命。[back]
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 endless imitation 無盡的模倣。[back]

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