The Innovator

时间：2007-07-02 05:42:10

（单词翻译:单击）

A Pharaoh Speaks.

I said， "Why should a pyramid

Stand always dully on its base？

I'll change it！ Let the top be hid，

The bottom take the apex-place！"

And as I bade they did.

The people flocked in， scores on scores，

To see it balance on its tip.

They praised me with the praise that bores，

My godlike mind on every lip.

—— Until it fell， of course.

And then they took my body out

From my crushed palace， mad with rage，

—— Well， half the town WAS wrecked¹， no doubt ——

Their crazy anger to assuage²

By dragging it about.

The new king's praises fill the land.

He clings to precept⁶， simple， dull；

HIS pyramids on bases stand.

But —— Lord， how usual！

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1 wrecked
adj.失事的，遇难的
参考例句：
the hulk of a wrecked ship 遇难轮船的残骸 the salvage of the wrecked tanker 对失事油轮的打捞

2 assuage
v.缓和，减轻，镇定
参考例句：
The medicine is used to assuage pain.这种药用来止痛。 Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.你带来的这些振奋人心的消息一定能减轻她的痛苦。

3 foul
adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规
参考例句：
Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。 What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

4 defile
v.弄污，弄脏；n.(山间)小道
参考例句：
Don't defile the land of our ancestors!再不要污染我们先祖们的大地！ We respect the faith of Islam, even as we fight those whose actions defile that faith.我们尊重伊斯兰教的信仰，并与玷污伊斯兰教的信仰的行为作斗争。

5 skull
n.头骨；颅骨
参考例句：
The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。 He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

6 precept
n.戒律；格言
参考例句：
It occurs to me that example is always more efficacious than precept.我想到身教重于言教。 The son had well profited by the precept and example of the father.老太爷的言传身教早已使他儿子获益无穷。