Midnight Loon

时间：2013-04-22 06:24:53

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Midnight Loon1
Arthur Sze
 
Burglars enter an apartment and ransack2（洗劫，遍寻） drawers; 
 finding neither gold nor cash, they flee, 
 
leaving the laundry and bathroom lights on—
 they have fled themselves. I catch the dipping 
 
pitch of a motorcycle, iceberg3 hues4 in clouds; 
 the gravel5 courtyard's a midnight garden, 
 
as in Japan, raked to resemble ocean waves 
 in moonlight, whirlpool（漩涡） eddies6, circular ripples— 
 
and nothing is quite what it appears to be. 
 When I unlatch（拉开插栓） the screen door, a snake 
 
slides under the weathered decking; I spot 
 the jagged hole edged with glass where a burglar（夜贼，窃贼） 
 
reached through the window, but no one 
 marks the poplars darker with thunder and rain. 
 
In moonlight I watch the whirlpool hues 
 of clouds drift over our courtyard, adobe7 walls, 
 
and gate, and, though there is no loon（潜鸟，懒人）, 
 a loon calls out over the yard, over the water.

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1 loon UkPyS     
n.狂人
参考例句：
  • That guy's a real loon.那个人是个真正的疯子。
  • Everyone thought he was a loon.每个人都骂他神经。
2 ransack fALzi     
v.彻底搜索，洗劫
参考例句：
  • He began to ransack his mother's workbox for a piece of thread.他要找一根线,开始翻腾妈妈的针线盒。
  • She ransack my apartment for the bankbook.她在我公寓里到处搜索寻找存折。
3 iceberg CbKx0     
n.冰山，流冰，冷冰冰的人
参考例句：
  • The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。
  • The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
4 hues adb36550095392fec301ed06c82f8920     
色彩( hue的名词复数 )； 色调； 信仰； 观点
参考例句：
  • When the sun rose a hundred prismatic hues were reflected from it. 太阳一出，更把它映得千变万化、异彩缤纷。
  • Where maple trees grow, the leaves are often several brilliant hues of red. 在枫树生长的地方，枫叶常常呈现出数种光彩夺目的红色。
5 gravel s6hyT     
n.砂跞；砂砾层；结石
参考例句：
  • We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。
  • More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。
6 eddies c13d72eca064678c6857ec6b08bb6a3c     
（水、烟等的）漩涡，涡流( eddy的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Viscosity overwhelms the smallest eddies and converts their energy into heat. 粘性制服了最小的旋涡而将其能量转换为热。
  • But their work appears to merge in the study of large eddies. 但在大旋涡的研究上，他们的工作看来却殊途同归。
7 adobe 0K5yv     
n.泥砖，土坯，美国Adobe公司
参考例句：
  • They live in an adobe house.他们住在一间土坯屋里。
  • Adobe bricks must drived dried completely before are used.土坯砖块使用前一定要完全干燥。

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