英语诗歌:Churning Day
Seamus Heaney
A thick crust, coarse-grained as limestone 1 rough-cast,
hardened gradually on top of the four crocks
that stood, large pottery 2 bombs, in the small pantry.
After the hot brewery 3 of gland 4, cud and udder,
cool porous 5 earthenware 6 fermented 7 the butter milk
for churning day, when the hooped 8 churn was scoured 9
with plumping kettles and the busy scrubber
echoed daintily on the seasoned wood.
It stood then, purified, on the flagged kitchen floor.
Out came the four crocks, spilled their heavy lip
of cream, their white insides, into the sterile 10 churn.
The staff, like a great whiskey muddler fashioned
in deal wood, was plunged 11 in, the lid fitted.
My mother took first turn, set up rhythms
that, slugged and thumped 12 for hours. Arms ached.
Hands blistered 13. Cheeks and clothes were spattered
with flabby milk.
began to dance. They poured hot water then,
sterilized 15 a birchwood bowl
and little corrugated 16 butter-spades.
Their short stroke quickened, suddenly
a yellow curd 17 was weighting the churned-up white,
heavy and rich, coagulated sunlight
that they fished, dripping, in a wide tin strainer,
heaped up like gilded 18 gravel 19 in the bowl.
The house would stink 20 long after churning day,
acrid 21 as a sulphur mine. The empty crocks
were ranged along the wall again, the butter
in soft printed slabs 22 was piled on pantry shelves.
And in the house we moved with gravid ease,
our brains turned crystals full of clean deal churns,
the plash and gurgle of the sour-breathed milk,
the pat and slap of small spades on wet lumps.
- Limestone is often used in building construction.石灰岩常用于建筑。
- Cement is made from limestone.水泥是由石灰石制成的。
- My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
- The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。
- The brewery had 25 heavy horses delivering beer in London.啤酒厂有25匹高头大马在伦敦城中运送啤酒。
- When business was good,the brewery employed 20 people.在生意好的时候，这家酿造厂曾经雇佣过20人。
- This is a snake's poison gland.这就是蛇的毒腺。
- Her mother has an underactive adrenal gland.她的母亲肾上腺机能不全。
- He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.他往土里掺沙子以提高渗水性能。
- The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.外壳不得不有些细小的孔以便能使氧气通过。
- She made sure that the glassware and earthenware were always spotlessly clean.她总是把玻璃器皿和陶器洗刷得干干净净。
- They displayed some bowls of glazed earthenware.他们展出了一些上釉的陶碗。
- When wine is fermented, it gives off gas. 酒发酵时发出气泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His speeches fermented trouble among the workers. 他的演讲在工人中引起骚动。 来自辞典例句
- Will the joint area with dense hooped reinforcement enhance the bearing capacity of the frame column? 节点区箍筋加密是否有利于框架柱承载能力的提高？ 来自互联网
- We scoured the area for somewhere to pitch our tent. 我们四处查看，想找一个搭帐篷的地方。
- The torrents scoured out a channel down the hill side. 急流沿着山腰冲刷出一条水沟。
- This top fits over the bottle and keeps the teat sterile.这个盖子严实地盖在奶瓶上，保持奶嘴无菌。
- The farmers turned the sterile land into high fields.农民们把不毛之地变成了高产田。
- The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
- She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
- Dave thumped the table in frustration . 戴夫懊恼得捶打桌子。
- He thumped the table angrily. 他愤怒地用拳捶击桌子。
- He had a blistered heel. 他的脚后跟起了泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Their hands blistered, but no one complained. 他们手起了泡，可是没有一个人有怨言。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His hair was dark, with flecks of grey. 他的黑发间有缕缕银丝。
- I got a few flecks of paint on the window when I was painting the frames. 我在漆窗框时，在窗户上洒了几点油漆。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- My wife was sterilized after the birth of her fourth child. 我妻子生完第4个孩子后做了绝育手术。 来自辞典例句
- All surgical instruments must be sterilized before use. 所有的外科手术器械在使用之前，必须消毒。 来自辞典例句
- a corrugated iron roof 波纹铁屋顶
- His brow corrugated with the effort of thinking. 他皱着眉头用心地思考。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I'd like to add some pepper to the bean curd.我想在豆腐里加一点辣椒粉。
- The next one is bean curd with crab roe.下一个是蟹黄豆腐。
- The golden light gilded the sea. 金色的阳光使大海如金子般闪闪发光。
- "Friends, they are only gilded disks of lead!" "朋友们，这只不过是些镀金的铅饼！ 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
- 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。
- The stink of the rotten fish turned my stomach.腐烂的鱼臭味使我恶心。
- The room has awful stink.那个房间散发着难闻的臭气。
- There is an acrid tone to your remarks.你说这些话的口气带有讥刺意味。
- The room was filled with acrid smoke.房里充满刺鼻的烟。