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安徒生童话英文版:What the Moon Saw-Twenty-Second Evening
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  • “I LOOKED down upon Tyrol,” said the Moon, “and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks. I looked at the pictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus that are painted there upon the walls of the houses, colossal1 figures reaching from the ground to the roof. St. Florian was represented pouring water on the burning house, and the Lord hung bleeding on the great cross by the wayside. To the present generation these are old pictures, but I saw when they were put up, and marked how one followed the other. On the brow of the mountain yonder is perched, like a swallow’s nest, a lonely convent of nuns2. Two of the sisters stood up in the tower tolling3 the bell; they were both young, and therefore their glances flew over the mountain out into the world. A travelling coach passed by below, the postillion wound his horn, and the poor nuns looked after the carriage for a moment with a mournful glance, and a tear gleamed in the eyes of the younger one. And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes.”

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    1 colossal [kəˈlɒsl] sbwyJ   第9级
    adj.异常的,庞大的
    参考例句:
    • There has been a colossal waste of public money. 一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
    • Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal. 那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。
    2 nuns [nʌnz] ce03d5da0bb9bc79f7cd2b229ef14d4a   第8级
    n.(通常指基督教的)修女, (佛教的)尼姑( nun的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • Ah Q had always had the greatest contempt for such people as little nuns. 小尼姑之流是阿Q本来视如草芥的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
    • Nuns are under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. 修女须立誓保持清贫、贞洁、顺从。 来自辞典例句
    3 tolling [təulɪŋ] ddf676bac84cf3172f0ec2a459fe3e76   第7级
    [财]来料加工
    参考例句:
    • A remote bell is tolling. 远处的钟声响了。
    • Indeed, the bells were tolling, the people were trooping into the handsome church. 真的,钟声响了,人们成群结队走进富丽堂皇的教堂。

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