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I Like A Look of Agony
作者Author  /  Emily  Dickinson  愛蜜麗•狄更森

I Like A Look of Agony

 Poem 241
 
 

I like a look of agony

 

because I know it's true; 

 

men do not sham convulsion

 

Nor simulate a throe

 

The eyes glaze once, and that is death

5

Impossible to feign

 

The beads upon the forehead

 

By homely anguish strung.

 

 
   
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1

look of agony

痛苦之色(或狀)。

3

sham convulsion 

假裝(心情)不安、紊亂

4

simulate a throe 

(偽)裝創痛

5

The eyes glaze once, and that is death 

目光變為呆滯僅祇一次,那就是死亡之時。

6

feign

假裝。

7

The beads upon the forehead 

額上之汗珠是個人的痛苦所造成的。

 
   

 

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