Hurricane Season

时间：2013-08-20 05:50:20

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Hurricane Season
John Hennessy
 
 
Those red and yellow windbreakers signal 
 how little time's left for spending 
 and selling; signing sleeves unravel 
 the seams of a flattened1 horizon 
 as fast as hands pull wallets from pockets 
 or unstitch sow's-ear purses. Something 
 
sharper than hunger's razor divides 
 the boardwalk crowds confined to land, 
 demands the shucking of so many buckets 
 of mussels and steamers, sweet corn roasted 
 on oil-drum fires, consumes all the candy-
 and caramel-coated apples hawked 
 
by women walking carts back and forth, 
 and so thoroughly2 strips shops and stands 
 of totems（图腾） to guard against a winter's worth 
 of curses: flip-flops, boogie boards, 
 pinwheels and Frisbees, crabs3 in wire cages, 
 shells children must have painted. And one 
 
raving4 old man is driven to scan 
 his metal detector5 across the sand, 
 gauge（测量，估计） headphones' hissing6 transmissions, scoop 
 bottle caps in a sifter7. How amusing we 
 must seem, sprouting8 full-grown from his head—
 surfers in wet suits saddling the chop, 
 
circling his shoulders with sea grass, 
 shock cords, the seeds of strange ideas 
 seized in our beaks9. Until the wake 
 we scratch through muddied sets severs 
 connections, and we disappear behind darker 
 swells, mount, descend10, and rise again.

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1 flattened 1d5d9fedd9ab44a19d9f30a0b81f79a8     
[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的
参考例句：
  • She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
  • I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
2 thoroughly sgmz0J     
adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地
参考例句：
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
3 crabs a26cc3db05581d7cfc36d59943c77523     
n.蟹( crab的名词复数 )；阴虱寄生病；蟹肉v.捕蟹( crab的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
  • As we walked along the seashore we saw lots of tiny crabs. 我们在海岸上散步时看到很多小蟹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The fish and crabs scavenge for decaying tissue. 鱼和蟹搜寻腐烂的组织为食。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 raving c42d0882009d28726dc86bae11d3aaa7     
adj.说胡话的；疯狂的，怒吼的；非常漂亮的；令人醉心[痴心]的v.胡言乱语(rave的现在分词)n.胡话；疯话adv.胡言乱语地；疯狂地
参考例句：
  • The man's a raving lunatic. 那个男子是个语无伦次的疯子。
  • When I told her I'd crashed her car, she went stark raving bonkers. 我告诉她我把她的车撞坏了时，她暴跳如雷。
5 detector svnxk     
n.发觉者，探测器
参考例句：
  • The detector is housed in a streamlined cylindrical container.探测器安装在流线型圆柱形容器内。
  • Please walk through the metal detector.请走过金属检测器。
6 hissing hissing     
n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视 动词hiss的现在分词形式
参考例句：
  • The steam escaped with a loud hissing noise. 蒸汽大声地嘶嘶冒了出来。
  • His ears were still hissing with the rustle of the leaves. 他耳朵里还听得萨萨萨的声音和屑索屑索的怪声。 来自汉英文学 - 春蚕
7 sifter SiCz6X     
n.（用于筛撒粉状食物的）筛具，撒粉器；滤器；罗圈；罗
参考例句：
  • She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter. 她用蓟筛筛蓟。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This paper deals with a nitempering process of sifter mesh. 研究了一种筛片的软氮化工艺。 来自互联网
8 sprouting c8222ee91acc6d4059c7ab09c0d8d74e     
v.发芽( sprout的现在分词 )；抽芽；出现；（使）涌现出
参考例句：
  • new leaves sprouting from the trees 树上长出的新叶
  • They were putting fresh earth around sprouting potato stalks. 他们在往绽出新芽的土豆秧周围培新土。 来自名作英译部分
9 beaks 66bf69cd5b0e1dfb0c97c1245fc4fbab     
n.鸟嘴( beak的名词复数 )；鹰钩嘴；尖鼻子；掌权者
参考例句：
  • Baby cockatoos will have black eyes and soft, almost flexible beaks. 雏鸟凤头鹦鹉黑色的眼睛是柔和的，嘴几乎是灵活的。 来自互联网
  • Squid beaks are often found in the stomachs of sperm whales. 经常能在抹香鲸的胃里发现鱿鱼的嘴。 来自互联网
10 descend descend     
vt./vi.传下来，下来，下降
参考例句：
  • I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
  • We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。

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