Moon Over

时间：2012-11-07 03:12:54

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Moon Over
Brad Leithauser
 
Scuba1 divers2（戴水肺的潜水员） will sometimes drown
 within a night sea
 after confusing up and down. 
 
It seems so basic — up/down — and yet,
 immersed in a black neutral buoyancy（浮力）,
 the world's boundaries all wet,
 
a person may mislay his only meaningful
 compass — the heart in his head —
 and mistake Earth's centripetal3 pull
 
for that other mustering4 of gravity:
 a firmament5 widespread
 with stars, over a wind blowing free. 
 
                              * 
 
But the figure — the tiny figure floundering,
 lost, in an unlit sea. . . He's trapped
 like a sleeper6 trapped in a raw, tightening7
 
nightmare, who knows he knows a way out of here
 though he keeps forgetting
 the key.
               How do we wake? How do we clear
 
the borne mind of its body and arrive —
 gasping, half gone, not gone —
 on the surface's groundless shore, not just alive
 
but secure in the moon's artful netting,
 whose catch tonight may be one of those rapt
 souls that thinks to see another dawn?

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1 scuba YjDzRf     
n.水中呼吸器
参考例句：
  • I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve.12岁时我开始迷上了带水中呼吸器潜水。
  • While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
2 divers hu9z23     
adj.不同的；种种的
参考例句：
  • He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
  • Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。
3 centripetal 1Ugyf     
adj.向心的
参考例句：
  • After some treatment of centripetal force,he deduces Kepler's third law.在向心力的一些论述之后，他推出了开普勒的第三定律。
  • It is called the centripetal acceleration.这叫做向心加速度。
4 mustering 11ce2aac4c4c9f35c5c18580696f5c39     
v.集合，召集，集结（尤指部队）( muster的现在分词 )；（自他人处）搜集某事物；聚集；激发
参考例句：
  • He paused again, mustering his strength and thoughts. 他又停下来，集中力量，聚精会神。 来自辞典例句
  • The LORD Almighty is mustering an army for war. 这是万军之耶和华点齐军队，预备打仗。 来自互联网
5 firmament h71yN     
n.苍穹；最高层
参考例句：
  • There are no stars in the firmament.天空没有一颗星星。
  • He was rich,and a rising star in the political firmament.他十分富有，并且是政治高层一颗冉冉升起的新星。
6 sleeper gETyT     
n.睡眠者，卧车，卧铺
参考例句：
  • I usually go up to London on the sleeper. 我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。
  • But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. 但首先他解释说自己睡觉很沉。
7 tightening 19aa014b47fbdfbc013e5abf18b64642     
上紧，固定，紧密
参考例句：
  • Make sure the washer is firmly seated before tightening the pipe. 旋紧水管之前，检查一下洗衣机是否已牢牢地固定在底座上了。
  • It needs tightening up a little. 它还需要再收紧些。

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