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  • The Bight 海湾

    by Elizabeth Bishop1 (1911-1979)

    At low tide like this how sheer the water is.

    White, crumbling2 ribs3 of marl protrude4 and glare

    and the boats are dry, the pilings dry as matches,

    Absorbing, rather than being absorbed,

    the water in the bight doesn't wet anything,

    the color of the gas flame turned as low as possible.

    One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire

    one could probably hear it turning to marimba music.

    The little ocher dredge at work off the end of the dock

    already plays the dry perfectly5 off-beat claves.

    The birds are outsize. Pelicans6 crash

    into this peculiar7 gas unnecessarily hard.

    it seems to me, like pickaxes,

    rarely coming up with anything to show for it,

    and going off with humorous elbowings,

    Black-and-white man-of-war birds soar

    on impalpable drafts

    and open their tails like scissors on the curves

    or tense them like wishbones, till they tremble.

    The frowsy sponge boats keep coming in

    with the obliging air of retrievers,

    bristling8 with jackstraw gaffs and hooks

    and decorated with bobbles of sponges.

    There is a fence of chicken wire along the dock

    where, glinting like little plowshares,

    the blue-gray shark tails are hung up to dry

    for the Chinese-restaurant trade.

    Some of the little white boats are still piled up

    against each other, or lie on their sides, stove in,

    and not yet salvaged9, if they ever will be, from the last bad storm.

    like torn-open, unanswered letters.

    the bight is littered with old correspondences.

    Click. Click. Goes the dredge,

    and brings up a dripping jawful of marl.

    All the untidy activity continues,

    awful but cheerful.

    海潮退到这样的时候,水便分外清澈了。

    白色的石灰泥滩,层层露出水来,浪纹斑驳,闪耀亮眼。

    条条小船,晒得干干的;根根木桩,则干得像火柴棒。

    吸收而非被吸收,

    海湾里的水弄不湿任何东西,

    而且呈现出一种瓦斯火开至最低时的颜色。

    你可以闻到那海水正转化成瓦斯;假如你是波特莱尔的话

    你说不定可以听到那海水正转化成马林巴木琴的声音。

    而码头尾端,一个褐色小型捞网正在那里捞着

    一直在那里以绝对冷硬的调子,打着双节棒,伴奏着。

    水鸟都是特大号的。鹈鹕哗啦冲

    入这一泓奇异的瓦斯之中,真是小题大作,

    这景象对我来说,有点像鹤嘴锄,

    一锄下去,拉回来看看,什么也没有,

    于是只好游到一边,样子滑稽的挤入鹈鹕堆里去了。

    黑白相间的军舰鸟翱翔在

    捉摸不定的气流里

    尾巴张开,如剪刀弯弯裁过

    尾巴紧绷,如叉骨绷然颤动。

    腥臭的海绵船不断的开了进来

    以一种猎狗衔回东西般的殷勤姿态,

    上面竖立着稻草人般的鱼叉鱼钩

    装饰着垂悬吊幌的海绵。

    沿着码头,有一排方格铁丝网墙

    上面,挂着闪闪发光犁刀般

    灰蓝鲨的尾巴,一条条的,在那里风干,

    准备卖给中国餐馆。

    一些白色的小船,仍然相互靠在一起

    堆着放,或侧着放,船身破裂,

    还没修好(要是将来真还会去修的话),都是上回暴风弄坏的,

    像一封封拆开而没有回复的信。

    这小海湾内到处都丢着废弃的信件。

    卡啦卡啦,捞网上下捞着,

    捞上来滴滴答答一大堆石灰泥。

    所有乱七八糟的事都在进行着,糟是糟透了,不过却满愉快的。

     11级    英语诗歌 


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    1 bishop [ˈbɪʃəp] AtNzd   第8级
    n.主教,(国际象棋)象
    参考例句:
    • He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all. 他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
    • Two years after his death the bishop was canonised. 主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。
    2 crumbling ['krʌmbliŋ] Pyaxy   第8级
    adj.摇摇欲坠的
    参考例句:
    • an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
    • The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。
    3 ribs ['rɪbz] 24fc137444401001077773555802b280   第7级
    n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 );(船或屋顶等的)肋拱;肋骨状的东西;(织物的)凸条花纹
    参考例句:
    • He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
    • Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。
    4 protrude [prəˈtru:d] V0mzm   第8级
    vt. 使突出,使伸出 vi. 突出,伸出
    参考例句:
    • The tip of her tongue was protruding slightly. 她的舌尖微微伸出。
    • A huge round mass of smooth rock protruding from the water. 一块光滑的巨型圆石露出水面。
    5 perfectly [ˈpɜ:fɪktli] 8Mzxb   第8级
    adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
    参考例句:
    • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said. 证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
    • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board. 我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
    6 pelicans [ˈpelɪkənz] ef9d20ff6ad79548b7e57b02af566ed5   第11级
    n.鹈鹕( pelican的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • Kurt watched the Pelicans fire their jets and scorch the grass. 库尔特看着鹈鹕运兵船点火,它们的喷焰把草烧焦。 来自互联网
    • The Pelican Feeding Officers present an educational talk while feeding the pelicans. 那个正在喂鹈鹕的工作人员会边喂鹈鹕边给它上一节教育课。 来自互联网
    7 peculiar [pɪˈkju:liə(r)] cinyo   第7级
    adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的
    参考例句:
    • He walks in a peculiar fashion. 他走路的样子很奇特。
    • He looked at me with a very peculiar expression. 他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
    8 bristling ['brisliŋ] tSqyl   第8级
    a.竖立的
    参考例句:
    • "Don't you question Miz Wilkes' word,'said Archie, his beard bristling. "威尔克斯太太的话,你就不必怀疑了。 "阿尔奇说。他的胡子也翘了起来。
    • You were bristling just now. 你刚才在发毛。
    9 salvaged [ˈsælvidʒd] 38c5bbbb23af5841708243ca20b38dce   第8级
    (从火灾、海难等中)抢救(某物)( salvage的过去式和过去分词 ); 回收利用(某物)
    参考例句:
    • The investigators studied flight recorders salvaged from the wreckage. 调查者研究了从飞机残骸中找到的黑匣子。
    • The team's first task was to decide what equipment could be salvaged. 该队的首要任务是决定可以抢救哪些设备。

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