英语作文词典的优点和缺点

Dictionaris are of great use and help in learnig English.They are just like teachers when we need help.When we meet new words,just turn to them for help.

They will never refuse to offer great to us.They can tell us how a word is pronounced,what it means and how it is used.Some people even like to use electronic dictionaries.Because electronic dictionaries can not only tell us the sound and meaning of words, they can also pronounce the words out like real people,they are easy to carry and use.

We have to use dictionaries properly and we needn't look up every word in the dictionaries.Sometimes we havt to guess the meaning out according to the context.

 

第二篇：英语作文范文辞典

英语作文范文辞典 1

（1）Natural Environment

New York As I See it

纽约之我见

My first impressions of the skyscrapers in New York were a definite anticlimax. Like the pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt they are over publicized and take fantastic proportion in the minds of people who have seen them. My first impressions of both are identical: ?°Not bigger than that!?± But soon I was caught by the special fascination of New York, that strange city with its Mediterranean faces and its cold, efficient, Nordic soul. In no other city do the human types more remind one of Naples, Tel Aviv or Cairo. But these Mediterranean faces are without the warm, sensitive and passionate Mediterranean soul. The predominantly dark faces are, as it were, a disguise, for the soul behind them remind one of London and Berlin. The soul of New York is cold and indifferent, and brutally efficient, like the soul of Northern Europe. Cities like Rome or Paris or Vienna somehow seem to return one’s love but New York does not. And yet it seems to me, paradoxically, eminently lovable and sometimes painfully beautiful, like a dazzling but aloof woman.

There is no other city in the world where one can feel more delightfully and absolutely alone in New York, for in no other city are people more indifferent toward each other. In other great cities in the world there are people who are at least interested in other people’s wallets, or curious about each other for various reasons. Not so in New York, where the inhabitants not only ignore each other, but seem to look through each other, which is still a step father in the gradations of indifference. If somebody ignores you, he is still somehow ware of you, and you have at least a negative importance. But if he looks straight through you, as though you were invisible, you eventually begin to wonder if you really still cast a shadow.

（from Selected Readings in English by Gunnar D. Kumlien）

anticlimax 令人扫兴，兴趣骤降，虎头蛇尾

over publicize 过度宣传

proportion 比例，部分

identical 同一的，不变的，相似的

Mediterranean 地中海式的

Nordic 北欧日耳曼民族的

sensitive 敏感的

passionate 热情奔放的

predominantly 绝大多数地，普遍地

disguise 伪装，假装

indifferent 冷漠的，无动于衷的

brutally 残忍地，蛮横地

paradoxically 自相矛盾地，似是而非地

eminently 出众地，超凡的

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英语作文范文辞典 2 dazzling 漂亮迷人的，令人眩惑的

aloof 冷淡的，清高的

absolutely 绝对地

inhabitant 居住者

gradation 等级，程序

Sphinx 狮身人面像

Naples 那不勒斯

Tel Aviv 特拉维夫

Cairo 开罗

Which is still a step farther in the gradations of indifference. 就冷漠程度而论是更进了一步。

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英语作文范文辞典 3

Kirkwall

柯克沃尔

Kirkwall was a town of ineffable delight. By comparison with the isolation of the Island it was all bustle and excitement.

The narrow paved streets on which pedestrians, horse drawn vehicles and cars all made their way together were lined with brightly lit shop windows. In the harbor great ships lay at anchor bearing the names of faraway places like Aberdeen and even Leith; and, most exciting of all, up at the far end of the main street, sheltered by the buildings, there grew a tree! A tree was something so exotic in our experience that whenever we visited Kirkwall we could hardly wait to rush up the street to see if it was still there. It would not have surprised us if a panther had lurked among its branches waiting to pounce down on an unwary passer-by or if brightly plumaged parrots had hopped from twig to twig.

(From Against the Wind by Douglas Sutherland)

ineffable 无法表达的，不可言喻的

bustle 忙碌，熙熙攘攘

at anchor 抛锚泊定船只

exotic 奇异的，异乎寻常的

panther 豹

lurk 潜伏，埋伏

pounce 猛扑，突然袭击

unwary 不注意的，不警惕的

plumage 长有…羽毛

hop 齐足跳

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英语作文范文辞典 4

Piccadilly before Dawn

黎明前的皮卡迪利大街

Piccadilly before dawn. After the stir and ceaseless traffic of the day, the silence of Piccadilly early in the morning, in the small hours, seems barely credible. It is unnatural and rather ghostly. The great street in its emptiness has a sort of solemn broadness, descending in a majestic sweep with the assured and stately ease of a placid river. The are is pure and limpid, but resonant, so that a solitary cab suddenly sends the whole street ringing, and the heavy pace of the horse resounds with long reverberations. Impressive because of their regularity, the electric lights, self-assertive and brazen, flood the surroundings with a strong and snowy brightness; with a kind of indifferent violence they cast their light upon the huge silent houses, and lower down throw into distinctness the long evenness of the park railings and the nearer trees. And between, outshone, like an uneven string of discolored gems, twinkles the yellow flicker of the gas jets.

There is silence everywhere, but the houses are quiet and still with a different silence form the rest, standing very white but for the black gaping of the many windows. In their sleep, closed and bolted, they line the pavement, helplessly as it were, disordered and undignified, having lost all significance without the busy hum of human voices and the hurrying noise of persons passing in and out.

(Adapted for Piccadilly Before Dawn by W. Somerset Maugham)

ceaseless 不停的，无休止的

ghostly 如同幽灵般的

majestic 雄伟的，壮丽的

sweep 范围，区域

stately 庄严的，雄伟的

placid 平静温和的

limpid 清澈透明的

resonant 回响的，共鸣的

resound 回响，充满声音

reverberation 回声

self-assertive 自作主张的

brazen 黄铜色的

gem 宝石

twinkle 闪烁，闪耀

flicker 忽隐忽现

gaping 洞开

bolted 上了闩的

undignified 不威严的，不庄重的

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英语作文范文辞典 5

Lisbon, Portugal

葡萄牙里斯本

The cleanness of Lisbon is dazzling. In January, the steep stone streets are washed several times daily by sudden tropical showers, and Nature is assisted by street-cleaners with brooms made of twigs. The Portuguese have a green thumb. Lisbon, in winter, is brilliant with orange calendulas, blooming everywhere, together with geraniums and succulents; oranges and lemons dangle form trees in the walled gardens like bright Christmas balls, the orange matching the orange sails of the little fishing boats on the blue Tagus. The seasons at this time of year are all awry. Autumn is present in the calendulas and oranges; spring in the first wicker baskets of camellias that come down form the nearby mountains to the florist shops; summer lingers in a few exhausted petunias; winter—last January, at least—came for a day in a fall of snow, which brought the population, marveling, out into the streets to touch it. As the new year gets under way, everything is growing, all at once; even the old tile roofs have windfall crops of grass and yellow mustard, which, if you look down from a window, over the rooftops to the Tagus, make the whole city seem fertile – a sort of semitropical paradise that combines the exuberance of the south, with the huge palms in the public squares, the oranges and the monumental statuary, and the neatness and precision of the north, seen in the absence of dirt and litter, the perfectly kept public gardens and belvederes, the black-and-white mosaic patterns (ships and ropes and anchors) of the sidewalks, and the bright tiles of so many house fronts, painted in green-and-white diamond or pink roses or solid Dutch blues and yellows.

Lisbon is a city built on hills, like San Francisco, and it is full of beautiful prospects, of which every advantage has been taken. It is designed, so to speak, for a strolling tourist, at sunset, to ensconce himself in a belvedere and gaze out over the Tagus, down to the pink-and-white dome of the Basilica of Estrela, or across a ravine of buff and pink and gold building to the old fortress of Sao Jorge.

(from On the Contrary by Mary McCarthy)

calendula 金盏花

geranium 天竺葵花

succulent 肉质植物

dangle 悬垂

awry 歪曲的，不对头的

wicker 柳条编制的

camellia 山茶花

florist 花商

petunia 矮牵牛花

windfall 被风吹落的

exuberance 繁茂，茂盛

statuary 雕像，塑像

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英语作文范文辞典 6 belvedere

mosaic

ensconce

ravine

buff

fortress

观景台，了望台 马赛克的 隐蔽，置身于 沟壑，深谷 暗黄色的，米色的 堡垒，要塞

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英语作文范文辞典 7

Oxford Street after Bombing

轰炸后的牛津街

Early September morning in Oxford Street. The smell of charred dust hangs on what should be crystal pure air. Sun, just up, floods the once more innocent sky, strikes silver balloons and the intact building-tops. The whole length of Oxford Street, west to east, is empty, looks polished like ballroom, glitters with smashed glass. Down the distances, natural mists of morning are brown with the last of smoke. Fumes still come from the shell of a shop. At this is now the enormous thing – it appears to amaze the street. Sections and blocks have been roped off; there is no traffic; the men in the helmets say not a person may pass (but some sneak through). Besides the high explosives that did the work, this quarter has been seeded with time bombs – so we are headed, waiting for those to go off. This is the top of Oxford Street, near where it joins the corner of Hyde Park at Marble Arch.

We people have come up out of the ground, or out from the bottom floors of the damaged houses: we now see what we heard happen throughout the night.

(from London, 1940 by Elizabeth Bowen)

charred 烧成炭的

crystal 如水晶般清澈的，透明的

intact 未受损的，完整的

polished 打磨过的，发光的

ballroom 舞厅

glitter 闪耀，发光

smashed 砸碎的

fume 烟雾

shell 骨架，建筑处壳

gas main 煤气总管道

rope off 用强围起

helmet 头盔

explosive 炸药，爆炸物

quarter 住宅区，地区

time bomb 定时炸弹

herd 聚集在一起，成群

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英语作文范文辞典 8

Dusk

黄昏小景

Norman Cortsby sat on a bench in the Park, with his back to strip of bush-planted sward, fenced by the park carriage drive. Hyde Park Corner, with its rattle and hoot of traffic, lay immediately to his right. It was some thirty minutes past six on an early March evening, and dusk had fallen heavily over the scene, dusk mitigated by some faint moonlight and many street lamps. There was a wide emptiness over road and sidewalk, and yet there were many unconsidered figures moving silently through the half-light or dotted unobtrusively on bench and chair, scarcely to be distinguished from the shadowed gloom in which they sat.

The scene pleased Gortsby and harmonized with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible form the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognized.

The wanderers in the dusk did not choose to have strange looks fasten on them, therefore they came out in this bat-fashion, taking their pleasure sadly in a pleasure-ground that had emptied of its rightful occupants. Beyond the sheltering screen of bushed and palings came a realm of brilliant light and noisy, rushing traffic.

A blazing, many-tiered stretch of windows shone through the dusk and almost dispersed it, marking the haunts of those other people, who held their own in life’s struggle, or at any rate had not had to admit failure. So Gortsby’s imagination pictured things as he sat on his bench in the almost deserted walk.

（Adapted from Dusk by Saki）

sward 草地，草皮

rattle 吵闹，喧嚣声

hoot 汽车喇叭声

mitigate 缓和，减轻

unobtrusively 不显眼地，不引人注目地

harmonize with 与。。。。。。一致，和谐

scrutiny 仔细查看

gloaming 黄昏，薄暮

shabby 破旧的，褴褛的

bat-fashion 蝙蝠式昼伏夜出

occupant 占有者，享用者

palings 栅栏，篱笆

blazing 灯火辉煌的

many-tiered 多层的

disperse 驱散的，使分流

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英语作文范文辞典 9

A Dry World

干旱之地

Pale, dry, baked earth, that blows into dust of fine sand. Low hills of baked pale earth, sinking heavily, and speckled sparsely with dark dots of cedar bushes. A river on the plain of drought, just a cleft of dark, reddish-brown water, almost a flood. And over all, the blue, uneasy, alkaline sky.

A pale, uneven, parched world, where a motor-car rocks and lurches and churns in sand. A world pallid with dryness, in human with a faint taste of alkali. Like driving in the bed of a great sea that dried up unthinkable ages ago, and now is drier than any other dryness, yet still reminiscent of the bottom of the sea, sand hills sinking, and straight, cracked mesas, like cracks in the dry-mud bottom of the sea.

So the mud church standing discreetly outside, just outside the pueblo, not to see too much. And on its fa?ade of mud, under the timbered mud-eaves, two speckled horses rampant, painted by the Indians, a red piebald and black one.

Swish! Over the logs of the ditch-bridge, where brown water is flowing full. There below is the pueblo, dried mud like mud-pie houses, all squatting in a jumble, prepared to crumble into dust and be invisible, dust to dust returning, earth to earth.

That they don’t crumble is the mystery. That these little squarish mud-heaps endure for centuries after centuries, while Greek marble tumbles asunder, and cathedrals totter, is the wonder. But then, the naked human hand with a bit of new soft mud is quicker than time, and defies the centuries.

Roughly the low, square, mud-pie houses make a wide street where all is naked earth save a doorway or a window with a pale-blue sash. At the end of the street, turn again into a parallel wide, dry street. And there, in the dry, oblong aridity, there tosses a small forest that is alive: and thud—thud—thud goes the drum, and the deep sound of men singing is like the deep soughing of the wind, in the depths of a wood.

(form Dance of the Sprouting Corn by D. H. Lawrence)

speckle 点缀，装点

cedar 雪松

cleft 裂缝，裂口

alkaline 碱性的

parch 烘烤，烧焦

lurch 蹒跚，东倒西歪地向前

churn 剧烈抖晃，翻腾

pallid 苍白的，虚弱的

mesa 平顶山，方山

pueblo 印第安的村庄

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英语作文范文辞典 10 fa?ade 门面，正面

rampant （马等）用后腿立起的，跃立的

piebald 有花斑的马

squat 蹲伏

crumble 破碎，崩溃，倒塌

tumble 倒塌

asunder 分散，碎裂

totter 摇摇欲坠

sash 窗框格

Particular Scenes 特设场景

Coming Home

归航

The ship first appeared as a small speck on the horizon. We had grown impatient at the delay and cheered when we caught sight of it. For most of us this was a important event, because the small object that had come into view was a troopship. Husbands, fathers, brothers and friends were coming home after an absence of four years. We were informed over the microphone that the ship would be in the harbour in about three-quarters of an hour’s time. We did not need telling and cheered more loudly that ever.

The harbour had already witnessed such a colourful spectacle. It was decked out with flags and because the day was warm, we were all wearing gay summer frocks and looking out best for the occasion. The time we waited seemed endless; but little by little the speck took the form of a ship and , in a short time, it came so near that we could make out its name: Candia, printed in large letters on the prow.

Now the crowd of about five hundred could hardly be held back. People were jumping up and down, waving; and little boys climbed on to stationary vehicles to get a better view. As the tugs piloted the great ship into the harbour, everybody peered eagerly at the troops lined along the railing. Soldiers on board waved to us wildly, shouting out the names of people they recognized or wanted to see. The two young men in the crowd who were holding a big banner with ‘Welcome Home!’ painted on it almost fell over in their excitement to lift it higher. An old man put his hat on the end of his walking-stick and twirled it round and round until it slipped off and fell into the sea. Women were crying; others laughing; and some did not quite know whether to laugh or cry. Someone called out ‘There’s your daddy!’ and a small boy of four was held high in the air to see his father whom he had never seen before. Now the troops were directly above us. Our excitement had mounted to peak, for soon they would disembark!

(from Coming Home)

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英语作文范文辞典 11 speck

troopship

witness

spectacle

deck out

frock

prow

stationary

tug 小点，微点 部队运输船 目睹，见证 场面，景象 装饰，打扮 服装，外衣 船头 静止的，不动的 拖船

pilot

railing

twirl

disembark （给船）领航栏杆，扶手 使快速旋转 下船，登陆

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英语作文范文辞典 12

The Bonfire

欢庆篝火

At one moment, the bomb site had been a dark, bare area with a few shadowy figures lugging heavy objects, and then – as the match tickled up the paraffin, fire leapt out. In a moment the whole place was a wild inferno of crackling flames, jumping squibs, shooting rackets, bouncing bangers and whizzers. Dozens of demonic figures yelled and leapt about, for in a few seconds the children had multiplied into hundreds.

Up, up, shot the flames, sending great sprays and showers of sparks into the night, all the old chairs, full of worm, beetle, and dry horse hair, caught like tinder and made a glowing core to the fire. Whizzers and bangers were now going off all over the place, exploding like jumping jacks in the very middle of the crowd, and starting yells of dismay and small fights. Screaming girls ran away and were pursued. All the windows in the houses around the bomb site had shot up, and their inhabitants were yelling protests and complaints, but not one of the children listened. Some of the adults saw the fun of the fire, but the duller ones, who were only greedy for their rights as citizens, rang up the police, the fire brigade, the Vicar or anyone else they fancied.

(from Magnolia Buildings by Elizabeth Stuckley)

bonfire 篝火，营火

shadow 朦胧的，模糊的

lug （用力）拖拉

tickle up 点燃，使起火

paraffin 煤油

inferno 地狱，火海

crackle 劈啪作响

squib 爆竹

banger 奇响爆竹

whizzer （点燃后发出厂嘶嘶声响的）爆竹

demonic 魔鬼般的

yell 叫喊，叫嚷

spray 如浪花般飞溅的火星

tinder 引为物，火种

dismay 惊愕，恐慌

inhabitant 居住者

protest 抗议，不满

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英语作文范文辞典 13

Pleasure Spots

极乐世界

His blue-prints pictured a space covering several acres, under a series of sliding roofs – for the British weather is unreliable – and with a central space spread over with an immense dance floor made of translucent plastic which can be illuminated from beneath. Around if are grouped other functional spaces, at different levels. Balcony bars and restaurants commanding high views of the city roofs, and ground-level replicas. A battery of skittle alleys. Two blue lagoons: one, periodically agitated by waves, for strong swimmers, and another, a smooth and summery pool, for playtime bathers. Sunlight lamps over the pools to simulate high summer on days when the roofs don’t slide back to disclose a hot sun in a cloudless sky. Rows of bunks on which people wearing sun-glasses and slips can lie and start a tan or deepen an existing one under a sunray lamp.

Music seeping through hundreds of grills connected with a central distributing stage, where dance or symphonic orchestras play or the radio programme can be caught, amplified, and disseminated. Outside, two 100-car parks. One, free. The other, an open-air cinema drive-in, cars queuing to move through turnstiles, and the film thrown on a giant screen facing a row of assemble cars. Uniformed male attendants check the cars, provide free aid and water, sell petrol and oil. Girls in white satin slacks take orders for buffer dishes and drinks, and bring them on trays.

(from Pleasure Spots by George Orwell)

blue-print 蓝图，构想

translucent 半透明的

illuminate 照亮，照明

replica 复制品，重复建筑

battery （一）套，组

skittle alley 撞柱游戏球道

lagoon 环礁湖，咸水湖

periodically 定期地

agitate 鼓动，搅动

simulate 模拟，模仿

tan 曝晒皮肤使变棕褐色

seep 渗出，渗漏（文中指乐声悠扬）

grill 格栅

amplify 扩音

disseminate 散布，传播

drive-in 可以坐在车内观看的露天电影院

turnstile 旋转式栅门

satin 光亮柔滑的，缎子的

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英语作文范文辞典 14

At the Funfair

游乐场感怀

On entering the funfair, we were greeted with laughter and music. Everywhere people were traveling at high speeds; being lifted up into the sky and dropped; driving small car and bumping into each other; shooting at targets; throwing balls at bottles, or simply standing and staring.

We were not quite sure where to begin, but on seeing a stand marked ‘ The Ghost Train’, we went towards it eagerly. When we had bought our tickets and taken our seats we were immediately carried towards a closed door. For a dreadful moment we thought we would crash into it but it slid open and we were completely in the dark. We could not understand why so many people were screaming. In a moment we realized why. A light went on in front of us and big gorilla grinned hideously at us. The train went straight towards it and at the very last moment turned away: only just in time! We barely had the chance to recover, when a skeleton appeared. It screamed, extended a bony arm and made us scream as well. A little ahead a cackling witch was lying in wait for us. The train went towards every monstrous creature that lurked in the dark, always turning away just before it was too late.

We were relieved when a door opened and we found ourselves in the open air again. But to our amazement that train did not stop. It reentered the haunted house! This time we heard strange noises and louder screams that before. Invisible hands came out of the dark and brushed through our hair or across our faces. Doors opened and closed before our eyes and monsters reached out for us. We held on tightly and shut our eyes when we saw yet another closed door ahead. This time we were sure we would hit into it. All of a sudden and brought us back to a happier world of people, lights and laughter.

(from At the Funfair)

bump 撞击，碰撞

slide 滑行

scream 尖叫，惊叫

gorilla 大猩猩

grin 龇牙咧嘴地笑

hideously 可怕地，骇人地

skeleton 骷髅

bony 骨头突出的，瘦削的

cackle 咯咯地笑

witch 巫婆

monstrous 妖魔鬼怪般的

lurk 潜伏，躲藏

haunted 闹鬼的

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英语作文范文辞典 15 Seasons 四季

Country Spring

乡间春色

One spring I went a walking tour in the country. It was a glorious spring. Not the sort of spring they give us in these miserable times, under this shameless government – a mixture of east wind, blizzard, snow, rain, slush, fog, frost, hail, sleet and thunder-storms – but a sunny, blue-skied, joyous spring, such as we used to have regularly every year when I was a young man, and things were different.

It was an exceptionally beautiful spring, even for those golden days: and as I wandered through the waking land, and saw the dawning of the coming green, and watched the blush upon the hawthorn hedge, deepening each day beneath the kisses of the sun, and looked up at the proud old mother trees, dandling their myriad baby buds upon their strong fond arms, holding them high for the soft west wind to caress as he passed laughing by, and marked the primrose yellow creep across the carpet of the woods, and saw the new flush of the field and saw the new light on the hills, and heard the new-found gladness of the birds, and heard form copse and farm and meadow the timid callings of the little new-born things, wondering to find themselves alive, and smelt the freshness of the earth, and felt the promise in the air, and felt a strong hand in the wind, my spirit rose within me. Spring had come to me also, and stirred me with a strange new life, with a strange new hope. I, too, was part of nature, and it was spring! Tender leaves and blossoms were unfolding from my heart. Bright flowers of love and gratitude were opening round its roots. I felt new strength in all my limbs. New blood was pulsing through my veins. Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain.

As I walked, Nature came and talked beside me, and showed me the world and myself, and the ways of God seemed clearer.

(from Dreams by Jerome K. Jerome)

shameless 不知羞耻的

blizzard 暴风雪

slush 雪水，半融雪

hail 冰雹

sleet 冻雨，雨夹雪

dawning 开始出现（春意）

blush 红色，红光

hawthorn 山楂

hedge 树篱

dandle 娇养小孩

myriad 无数，大量

primrose 报春花

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英语作文范文辞典 16 creep

flush

copse

gratitude

vein

throb

蔓延，开满 活力，茂盛 矮灌木丛 谢意，感谢 血管 跳动，震动

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英语作文范文辞典 17

Spring Walk

春日漫步

I’ve walked to a hill mile from the house. It’s not really a hill but a mountain slope that heaves up, turns sideways, and comes down again, straight down to a foot-wide creak. Every-thing I can see from here used to be a flatland covered with shallow water. ?°Used to be?± means several hundred millions years ago, and the land itself was not really ?°here?± at all, but part of a continent floating near Bermuda. On the top is fin of rock, a marine deposition created during Jurassic times by small waves moving in and out slapping the shore.

I’ve come here for peace and quiet and to see what’s going on in this secluded valley, away from ranch work and sorting corrals, but what I get is a slap on the ass by a prehistoric wave, gains and losses in altitude and aridity, outcrops of mud composed of rotting volcanic ash that fell continuously for ten thousand years a hundred million years ago. The soils are a geologic flag – red, white, green, and gray. On one side of the hill, mountain mahogany gives off a scent like orange blossoms; on the other, colonies of sagebrush root wide in ground the color of Spanish roof tiles. And it still looks like the ocean to me. ?°How much truth can a man stand, sitting by the ocean, all that perpetual motion,?± Mose Allison, the jazz singer, sings.

The wind picks up and blusters. Its fat underbelly scrapes the uneven ground, twisting like taffy toward me, slips up over the mountain, and showers out across the Great Plains. The sea smell it carried all the way from Seattle has long since been absorbed by pink grass – the rotting granite that spills down the slopes of the Rockies. Somewhere over the Midwest the wind slows, tangling in the hair of hardwood forests, and finally drops into the corridors of the cities, pas Manhattan’s World Trade Center, ripping free again as it crosses the Atlantic’s green swell.

Spring jitterbugs inside me. Spring is wind, symphonic and billowing. A dark cloud pops like a blood blister over me, letting hail down. It comes on a piece of wind that seems to have widened the sky, comes so the birds have something to fly on.

(from Spring by Geetel Ehrlich)

heave 起伏，隆起

fin 鳍，鳍状物

deposition 沉淀，沉积

secluded 孤寂的，与世隔绝的

altitude 高度，海拔

mahogany 花梨木

sagebrush 北美艾灌丛

perpetual 永恒的，不变的

buster 呼啸狂欢

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英语作文范文辞典 18 underbelly

scrape

taffy

tangle

jitterbug

billowing

blister

下腹部 刮擦，掠过，拂过 太妃糖 纠结，缠绕 使激动不安，紧张 翻腾的，汹涌的 水疱

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August

八月

August is a dramatic month. Humidity is a form of madness. Writing is a form of suicide. The temptation to talk like this, in short clips, is overwhelming. Short sentences are like raindrops: splashy and desirable.

August, the most complacent month. Laziness, humidity, and utter lack of thought are its chief characteristics. Sluggish and indolent we drag our bodies through its sweaty middle like primeval crawlers.

I saw a guy, prostrate from heat, staring at an empty parking lot downtown. ?°There are more leaves on the trees this year,?± he said. I looked at the expanse of steaming cement before us and agreed. That was an August encounter and that man an August character. An ambassador of Humidity. The reason why so many people die in August is that nobody is really awake. All death has to do is pluck the unalert from the planet like overripe peaches.

If you are poor and hot like me, one way to escape August is to visit showrooms. Not only are they air-conditioned, they are educational. I went to an IBM computer showplace and a dear lady paraded me before the friendly pastels of a thousand keyboards. It was like ice cream.

Looking over the Augusts of my life, I find all sorts of delirious phenomena. Once I was mugged in a hallway. I was too irritated by the heat to pay. I screamed at the guy and he only took half the money. A few years ago, my wife produces a wonderful calendar full of useful and wonderful facts, as well as the birthdays of all our friends. I tried to talk her into leaving August out. When she wouldn’t listen moved to August. She caught me. I pleaded humidity. I don’t think she’s forgiven me yet.

(from August b Andrei Condrescu )

humidity 潮湿

suicide 自杀

temptation 诱惑

complacent 懈怠的，懒散的

sluggish 不太想动的，懒散的

indolent 懒惰的，不积极的

sweaty 出汗的

primeval 原始的，远古的

crawler 爬虫，蠕虫

prostrate 无精打采的

pluck 除去，消灭

parade 带…参观，行进

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mug 疯狂的 从背后袭击并抢劫

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An Autumn Day

秋日掠影

It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day, the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kink had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beach and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field.

The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them. There was the honest cock-robin the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying the sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red-tipped wings and yellow-tipped tail, and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue-jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay lightblue coat and white under-clothes; screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.

(from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving)

livery 服装，衣着

beech 山毛榉

hickory 山核桃

pensive 沉思的，忧郁的

quail 北美鹑

stubble-field 收割后（布满茬儿）的田地

revelry 狂欢，喧闹

flutter 振翅，展翼

frolic 嬉戏，闹着玩

stripling 年轻人，小伙子

querulous 爱发牢骚的，抱怨的

blackbird 黑鸟，乌鸦

sable 深褐色的

woodpecker 啄木鸟

gorget （鸟）颈部色斑

plumage 鸟的全身羽毛

cedar bird 黄连鸟

monteiro cap有帽沿的圆猎帽

blue-jay 有冠蓝背悭鸟

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纨绔子，花花公子

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A Winter Morning

冬日之晨

Day had broken cold and gray, extremely cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon River trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a vague and little-traveled trail led eastward through the timberland. It was a steep bank, and her paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. It was nine o’clock. There was no sum a clear day, and yet there was a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. This fact did not worry the man. He was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful sphere would just peep above the skyline in the south and dip immediately from view.

The man hung a look back along the way he had come. The Yukon River lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was all pure white, rolling in gentle waves where the ice-jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, except for a dark line that curved and twisted form the south and away into the north. This dark line was the trail – the main trail – led south five hundred miles to Chilocoot Pass and salt water, and tat led north seventy miles to Dawson, and still on to the north to St. Michael on the Bering sea, twenty-five hundred miles more.

But all this – the mysterious, far-reaching trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all – made no impression on the man. It was not because he was used to it. He was a newcomer in the land and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

(from To Build a Fire by Jack London)

trail 小径，小道

timberland 林区

subtle 微妙的

sphere 球体，圆体

skyline 地平线

ice-jam 流冰堆积

curve 依曲线行进

far-reaching 延伸到远方的

weirdness 离奇怪诞

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A Winter Night Journey

冬夜之旅

I seem to recall best a journey we made by tram one winter night.

We were going to visit my Granny at Westoe, and I was very excited, because an evening excursion was something quite unheard of for me. It had been raining; the gas lamps lit the gleaming pavements and cobbles with a doubled radiance. The shaking tram wires were sending down showers of white raindrops. Everything in the ram seemed fresh and glittering. The breezy windows sparkled with long zigzags of rain and the passing street lamp flared gorgeously through the panels of blue and yellow and ruby glass. Outside, it was cold and windy, and we could feel the gale buffeting against the side of the tram, making it sway and lurch ore than usual, and throwing the passengers of song, and the fresh, clean, cold sea-wind was blowing right through the upper deck. Above, a high half-moon seemed to be skidding along on its back through piles of black, white-lined rags. It was a wild night, with a sense of magic in the offing. The people in the tram did not seem like ordinary mortals; a kind of exhilarating gaiety had seized them, and it seemed to lighten their bodies and illuminate their faces. At times I was sure we were really flying.

(from The Only Child by James Kirkup)

recall 回忆，想起

excursion 短途旅行

gleaming 发微光的，闪烁的

cobble 大鹅卵石，圆石

glittering 闪闪发光的，闪烁的

breezy 有微风的，通风的

zigzag 锯齿形，弯弯曲曲

flare 闪耀（光芒）

gorgeously 灿烂地，华丽地

buffet （风、雨）连续打击

snatch 片段，一阵阵的歌声

offing 视野范围内的远处海面

mortal 凡人

exhilarating 令人振奋的，使人高兴的

gaiety 快乐，高兴，喜庆

illuminate 照亮，照明

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The Sea

大海

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation. He cannot brook the slightest appearance of defiance, and has remained the irreconcilable enemy of ships and men ever since ships and men had the unheard-off audacity to go afloat together in the face of his frown. From that day he has gone on swallowing up fleets and men without his resentment being glutted by the number of victims – by so many wrecked ships and wrecked lives. Today, as ever, he is ready to beguile and betray. To smash and do drown the incorrigible optimism of men who, backed by the fidelity of ships, are trying to wrest from him the fortune of their house, the dominion of their world, or only a dole of food for their hunger. If not always in the hot mood to smash, he is always stealthily ready for a drowning. The most amazing wonder of the deep is its unfathomable cruelty.

(from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad)

generosity 慷慨，仁慈

hardihood 大胆，刚毅

savage 野蛮的，蛮横的

autocrat 独裁者，专制君主

adulation 谄媚，奉承

brook 容忍，允许

defiance 反抗，反对

irreconcilable 难和解的，不可调和的

audacity 勇气，胆量，冒险

resentment 忿恨，不满

glut 满足，厌腻

beguile 迷惑

smash 粉碎，破坏

incorrigible 固执的，难以克服的

wrest 夺取，强占

dominion 统治，领地，范围

dole 少量的施舍

unfathomable 深不可测的，无底的，难解的

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Night

夜

Night has fallen over the country. Through the trees rises the red moon, and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend. I sit at the open window to enjoy them; and hear only the voice of the summer wind. Like black hulks, the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that they are there. Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles. The tramp of horses’ hoofs sounds from the wooden bridge. Then all is still save the continuous wind of the summer night. Sometimes I know not if it be the wind or the sound of the neighboring sea. The village clock strikes; and I feel that I am not alone.

How different it is in the city! It is late, and the crowd is gone. You step out upon the balcony, and lie in the very bosom of the cool, dewy night as if you folded her garments about you. Beneath lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black away with some beloved spirit plunges, and floats are still burning up and down the long street. People go by with grotesque shadows, now foreshortened, and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing, while a new one springs up behind the walker, and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill. The iron gates of the part shut with a jangling clang. There are footsteps and loud voices; -- a tumult; -- a drunken brawl; -- an alarm of fire; -- then silence again. And now at length the city is asleep, and we can see the night. The belated moon looks over the roofs, and finds no one to welcome her. The moonlight is broken. It lies here and there in the squares, and the opening of the streets – angular like blocks of white marble.

(from Night by Nathanial Hawthorne)

hulk 大船

billowy 波浪起伏的

tramp 脚步声

bosom 胸怀，怀抱

plunge 投入，跃入

beloved 心爱的，热爱的

clasp 拥抱，抱紧

grotesque 奇形怪状的

foreshortened 缩短的

revolve 旋转，转动

sail 翼板

windmill 风车

jangling 叫嚷的，刺耳的

clang （发出）铿锵声

tumult 吵闹，喧哗

brawl 吵架，吵闹

angular 角状的，尖的

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Valley at Sunset

山谷夕照

The set was setting, spilling gold light on the low western hills of Rathlin Island. A small boy walked jauntily along a hoof-printed path that wriggle between the folds of these hills and opened out into a crater-like valley on the cliff-top. Presently he stopped as if remembering something, then suddenly he left the path and began running up one of the hills. When he reached the top he was out of breath and stood watching streaks of light radiating from golden-edged clouds, the scene reminding him of a picture he had seen of the Transfiguration. A short distance below him was the cow standing at the edge of a reedy lake. Colm ran down to meet her vaving his stick in the air, and the wind rumbling in his ears made him give an exultant whoop which splashed upon the hills in a shower of echoed sound. A flock of gulls lying on the short grass near the lake rose up languidly, drifting like blown snowflakes over the rim of the cliff.

The lake faced west and was fed by a stream, the drainings of the semi-circling hills. One side was open to the winds from the sea and in winter a little outlet trickled over the cliffs making a black vein in their gray sides. The boy lifted stones and began throwing them into the lake, weaving web after web on its calm surface. Then he skimmed the water with flat stones, some of them jumping the surface and coming to rest on the other side. He was delighted with himself and after listening to his echoing shouts of delighted he ran to fetch his cow. Gently he tapped her on the side and reluctantly she went towards the brown-mudded path that led out of the valley. The boy was about to throw a final stone into the lake when a bird flew low over his head, its neck astrain, and its orange-colored legs clear in the soft light. It was a wild duck. It circles the lake twice, thrice, coming lower each time and then with a nervous flapping of wing it skidded along the surface, its legs breaking the water into a series of silvery arcs. Its wings closed, it lit silently, gave a slight shiver, and began pecking indifferently at the water.

(from The Wild Duck’s Nest by Michael McLaverty)

jauntily 得意地，高兴地，欢快地

hoof-printed 有蹄印的

wriggle 蜿蜒而行

fold 山间褶皱

crater-like 象火山口的，中空而广圆的

streak 条纹，色线

ready 长满芦苇的

rumble 呼呼作响

exultant 兴高采烈的，狂喜的

whoop （欢乐的）高喊，高呼

languidly 懒洋洋的，无精打采地

rim 边缘

trickle 滴，淌

skim 掠水而过，漂过

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英语作文范文辞典 28 astrain

flapping

are

peck （作表语）用力伸直的，拉长的 振翼，拍翅 弧形 啄食

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At the Dock

码头边

The stony shores ran away right and left in straight lines, enclosing a somber and rectangular pool. Brick walls rose high above the water – soulless walls, staring through hundreds of windows as troubled and dull as the eyes of over-fed brutes. At their base monstrous iron cranes crouched, with chains hanging from their long necks, balancing cruel-looking hooks over the decks of lifeless ships. A noise of wheels rolling over stones, the thump of heavy things falling, the racket of feverish winches, the grinding of strained chains, floated on the air. Between high building the dust of all the continents soared in short flights; and a penetrating smell of perfumes and dirt, of spices and hides, of things costly and of many things filthy, pervaded the space, make for it an atmosphere precious and disgusting. The Narcissus came gently into her berth; the shadows of soulless walls fell upon her, the dust of all the continents leaped upon her sides, took possession of her in the name of the sordid earth. She had ceased to live.

(from The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad)

somber 昏暗的，阴沉的

rectangular 矩形的，长方形的

soulless 没有灵魂的，死气沉沉的

crane 起重机

crouch 蹲伏

thump 重击，砰然作响

racket 喧嚷，吵闹

winch 绞车，起货机

grinding 磨擦

soar 高飞，飘扬

penetrating 有穿透力的

spice 香料

hide 兽皮，皮革

filthy 污秽的，不洁的

pervade 充斥，弥漫

berth 泊位

clamber 攀爬

sordid 肮脏的，恶劣的

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A Wet Sunday in a Country Inn

乡间客栈的一个阴雨星期天

A wet Sunday in a country inn! Whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation.

The rain pattered against the casements; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest of something to amuse the eye; but is seemed as if I had been placed completely out of the reach of all amusement. The windows of my bed-room looked out among tiled roofs and stacks of chimneys, while those of my sitting-room commanded a full view of the stable yard. I know of nothing more calculated to make a man sick of this world than a stable yard on a rainy day. The place was littered with wet straw had been kicked about by travelers and stable-boys. In one corner was a stagnant pool of water, surrounding an island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit; his drooping tail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which the water trickled from his back; near the cart was a half dozing cow, chewing her cud, and standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of a stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a dog-house hard by, uttered something every now and then between a bark and yelp; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in patterns, looking as sulky as the weather itself; everything, in short, was comfortless and forlorn, excepting a crew of hardened ducks, assembled like boon companions round a puddle and making a riotous noise over their liquor.

(by Washington Irving)

patter 发出嗒嗒声

casement 窗扉

toll 鸣钟，敲钟

muck 粪堆

crest-fallen 垂头丧气的

drench 淋透，湿透

cud 反刍的食物

wreath 螺旋形，涡状物

reek 冒水蒸气

wall-eyed 眼白特别大的，两眼珠向外斜视的

poke 探，伸

cur 杂种狗

yelp 犬吠

wench 女佣

pattern 木底鞋

sulky 郁郁不乐的，阴沉的

riotous 喧闹的，吵嚷的

liquor 烈酒

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Desert Plants

沙漠植物

This is the country of three seasons. From June to November it lies hot, still, and unbearable, sick with violent unrelieving storms; then on until April, chill, quiescent, drinking its scant rain and scanter snows; from April to the hot season again, blossoming, radiant, and seductive. These months are only approximate; later or earlier the rain-laden wind may drift up the water gate of the Colorado from the Gulf, and the land set its seasons by the rain.

The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. It is recorded in the report of the Death Valley expedition that after a year of abundant rains, on the Colorado desert was found a specimen of Amaranthus ten feet high. A year later the same species in the same place matured in the drought at four inches. One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, no tritely to ?°try?±, but to do. Seldom does the desert herb attain the full stature of the type. Extreme aridity and extreme altitude have the same dwarfing effect, so that we find in the high Sierras and in Death Valley related species in miniature that reach a comely growth in mean temperatures. Very fertile are the desert plants in expedients to prevent evaporation, turning their foliage edge-wise toward the sun, growing silky hairs and helps them. It roll up dunes about the stocky stems, encompassing and protective, and above the dunes, which may be, as with the mesquite, three times as high as a man, the blossoming twigs flourish and bear fruit.

(from The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin)

quiescent 静止的，沉寂的

seductive 有吸引力的，诱人的

flora 植物群

expedition 考察，探险

specimen 标本，样品

tritely 陈腐地，陈旧地

stature 身材，身高

dwarf 使变矮

miniature 小型，微型物

comely 合适的，适宜的

evaporation 蒸发，水分散失

foliage 叶子

exude 流出，渗出

viscid gum 黏胶

harry 折磨，骚扰

dune 沙丘

encompassing 包容的，环绕

mesquite 牧豆树属植物

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scant

blossom

lade

radiant

tropical

luxuriance

breed

offspring 缺乏的，不足的；限制，节省，减少 花，花开的状态；开花，兴旺，发展 装载，装；舀出 发光的，辐射的 热带的，热情的 茂盛 繁殖，教养，抚育 儿女，了孙，后代，产物

herb

aridity

arid

expedient

twig

药草，香草 干旱 干旱的 有利的；权宜之计 嫩枝，小枝，末梢；注意，了解

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A Night in the Open

夜宿野外

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open would it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only light and living slumber to the man who sleep afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she take her rest, she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses when a wakeful influence goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce the dawn, but like a cheerful watchman speeding the course of night. Cattle awake on the meadows; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls, open their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night.

(from Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson)

torpid 麻痹的，迟缓的，迟钝的，蛰伏的

slothful 偷懒的

negligent 疏忽的，粗心大意的

afield 离开（家乡），在战场上，在田野

monotonous 单调的，乏味的

dew 露水

choke 窒息，闷闭

slumber 睡眠

dwell 居住，寓于

hemisphere 半球，范围

crow 鸡啼

lair 兽穴，躲藏处

fern 蕨类植物

behold 看见，注视

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At Khartoum

喀土穆剪影

Many years have gone by since I first flew up the valley of the upper Nile, starting the journey at Khartoum, in the Sudan, and ending it nearly two thousand miles away, at the source of the river, in Uganda. I was a war correspondent at the time, on my way from one campaign, in the western desert of Egypt, to another, in Ethiopia. Even then, when planes did not fly nearly so high as they do today, there was not very much to be seen from the air except the endless desert and the meandering green and these I remember just as distinctly as one remembers the islands on a long ocean voyage.

Before we started, we were held up for three or four days at Khartoum with engineer trouble. It was April, the hottest time of the year – so hot, in fact that it was slightly painful just to touch the porcelain sides of your bathtub when you got up in the morning. A fearsome sandstorm known as a haboob was blowing, and it was only at the very end of the long, torpid day that the town woke up at last. Each evening, about an hour before the light began to fail, I used to walk down to the zoo with a book. The Khartoum Zoo is quite unlike any other zoo in the world. It lies on the left bank of the Blue Nile, just upstream from the point where the White Nile comes I from the southern Sudan, and it covers hardly more than two or three acres.

The animals and the birds do not have that vacant and dispirited air that seems to overtake tropical creatures then they are transported to cold climates in the north. They have all been born here in this hothouse atmosphere, and many of them are not kept in cages; they simple roam about in their natural state, grazing on the grass and the bushes or wading in the pond. At the hour when I used to go to the zoo, there were hardly any visitors, and as I sat there reading, the zebras, the antelopes and many kinds of long-legged bird would gather around in a quiet and hesitating way that was something between curiosity and fear.

(from The White Nile by Alan Moorehead)

campaign 战役，战斗

meandering 蜿蜒的，曲折的

porcelain 瓷的

bathtub 澡盆，浴缸

torpid 毫无生气的，不活泼的

acre 英亩

vacant 空虚的，茫然的

dispirited 垂头丧气，没有精神的

overtake 侵袭，压倒

roam 闲逛，溜达

graze 放牧，吃草

wade 涉水而过，在水中行走

zebra 斑马

antelope 羚羊

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英语作文范文辞典 35

The Way to Rainy Mountain

雨山行

Yellowstone, it seemed to me, was the top of the world, a region of deep lakes and dark timber, canyons and waterfalls. But, beautiful as it is, one might have the sense of confinement there. The skyline in all directions is close at hand, the high wall of the woods and deep cleavages of shade. There is a perfect freedom in the mountains, but it belongs to the eagle and the elk, the badger and the bear. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.

Descending eastward, the highland meadows are stairway to the plain. In July the inland slope of the Rockies is luxuriant with flax and buckwheat, stonecrop and larkspur. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land recedes. Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind. The sun follows a longer course in the day, and the sky is immense beyond all comparison. The great billowing clouds that sail upon it are shadows that move upon the grain like water, dividing light. Farther down, in the land of the Crows and Blankfeet, the plain is yellow. Sweet clover takes hold of the hills and bends upon itself to cover and seal the soil. There the Kiowas paused on their way; they have come to the place where must change their lives. The sun is at home on the plains. Precisely there does it have the certain character of a god. When the Kiowas came to land of the Crows, they could see the dark lees of the hills at dawn across the Bighorn River, the profusion of light on the grain shelves, the oldest deity ranging after the solstices. Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below; they must wean their blood from the northern weather and hold the mountains a while longer in their view. They bore Tai-me in procession to the east.

（from The Way to Rainy Mountain）

cleavage 劈开，分开，裂开

elk 麋

badger 獾

flax 亚麻

buckwheat 荞麦

stonecrop 景天（植物名）

cluster 一丛，一簇

billowing 如波浪般的

clover 三叶草

seal 填塞，封补

lee 山的下风处，背风面

profusion 丰沛，大量

deity 神

solstice 冬（或夏）至

veer 转向，改变方向

caldron 大锅

wean 断绝，放弃

procession 列队行进

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