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A
narrow fellow in the grass |
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Occasionally
rides |
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You
May have met him? Did you not |
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His
notice sudden is. |
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The
grass divides as with a comb, |
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A
spotted shaft is seen; |
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And
then it closes at your feet |
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And
opens further on. |
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He
likes a boggy acre, |
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A
floor too cool for corn, |
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Yet
when a boy, and barefoot |
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I
more than once, at |
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Have
passed, l thought, a whip lash |
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Unbraiding
in the sun,- |
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when
stooping to secure it, |
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lt
wrinkled, and was gone. |
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Several
of nature's people |
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I
know, and they know met |
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I
feel for them a transport |
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Of
cordiality |
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But
never met this fellow, |
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Attended
or alone, |
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Without
a tighter breathing |
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And
zero at the bone. |
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narrow
fellow |
狹長的傢伙,指瘦長的蛇,但詩中 |
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2 |
rides |
騎,指蛇爬行之美姿。 |
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3 |
You
May...not |
此行之標點不合慣例,依例應將問 |
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his...is |
總是出其不意地注意到他.。 |
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the
grass...on |
此段寫蛇來既無蹤,去也無跡。整 |
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5 |
the
grass ...comb |
草向兩邊劈過,如同梳子梳髮。 |
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6 |
A
spotted shaft |
斑點的矛柄,指蛇身上帶斑點。 |
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7 |
it
closes...opens further on |
草在你腳邊再度合攏, 往前一直開展過去。 |
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9 |
boggy
acre |
沼澤地,泛指一小片潮濕的地方。 |
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10 |
floor |
此處指地 |
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too
cool for corn |
太冷,不適合玉蜀黍生長。 |
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11 |
yet |
指雖為人煙稀少的地區~詩中人卻 |
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when
a boy |
原為when I was a boy或when |
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13 |
passed |
從…旁邊走過。 |
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whip
lash |
鞭索。鞭索通常由數股細皮帶編 |
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14 |
Unbraiding |
解開,伸開。指蛇倦縮的身體向外 |
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15 |
stooping
to secure |
彎下腰去撿取。 |
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16 |
wrinkled |
皺成一團 |
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was gone |
消失了。 |
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17-18 |
Several...I
know |
倒裝句,原為l know several of |
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17 |
nature's
people |
大自然的子民。 |
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18 |
I
know, and they...me |
我認識他們。他們也認識我。影射 |
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I...cordiality |
=l
feel a transport of cordiality for them,我對他們產生 |
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but...bone |
此段說明詩中人與蛇的交情固然無 |
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21 |
But
never met |
=But
never have l met﹒ |
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22 |
Attended |
有人陪伴。 |
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23 |
tighter
breathing |
一陣氣促心悸。 |
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zero
at the bone |
骨子�堣@陣冷,Zero指華氏零度 |
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這首詩談的仍然是人與自然的關係。儘管蛇一向被認為人類的敵 |