Clamor

时间：2014-02-26 03:08:20

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Clamor
Nick Norwood
 
 
The mill's non-stop noise, a whir and a clangor（叮当声）,
 follows him home, over the bridge and up
 the hill, while at his back it goes on wheezing1,
 chuffing lint2 through manifold（多方面的） windows,
 
into the village with the lunch bucket knocking
 at his knee, to bounce a kid on his knee
 in the sunlit parlor3 of the four-room cottage
 identical to the one next door, beside
 
the river that powers the turbines. The privy's
 sulfurous stench stretches to the porch while
 his own open windows pass heat and flies
 and rugrats flap through the sprung screen door.
 
A rung up from the tenant4 shack5, maybe two
 from a hovel on the Rhine, a hut on the Liffey,
 the Mersey, the Volga, he is equal now
 to the terrace-house bloke in Wigan,
 
to his next-century brother in Coimbatore,
 or the one in a cinder-block flat in Nantong
 perched above the Yangtze, whose mill tunes6
 its waters daily to the color it's dyeing --
 
red, blue, purple -- through a little trap door.

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1 wheezing 725d713049073d5b2a804fc762d3b774     
v.喘息，发出呼哧呼哧的喘息声( wheeze的现在分词 )；哮鸣
参考例句：
  • He was coughing and wheezing all night. 他整夜又咳嗽又喘。
  • A barrel-organ was wheezing out an old tune. 一架手摇风琴正在呼哧呼哧地奏着一首古老的曲子。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 lint 58azy     
n.线头；绷带用麻布，皮棉
参考例句：
  • Flicked the lint off the coat.把大衣上的棉绒弹掉。
  • There are a few problems of air pollution by chemicals,lint,etc.,but these are minor.化学品、棉花等也造成一些空气污染问题，但这是次要的。
3 parlor v4MzU     
n.店铺，营业室；会客室，客厅
参考例句：
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店？
4 tenant 0pbwd     
n.承租人；房客；佃户；v.租借，租用
参考例句：
  • The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.那名房客因未付房租而被赶走。
  • The tenant is responsible for all repairs to the building.租户负责对房屋的所有修理。
5 shack aE3zq     
adj.简陋的小屋，窝棚
参考例句：
  • He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前，他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
  • The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。
6 tunes 175b0afea09410c65d28e4b62c406c21     
n.曲调，曲子( tune的名词复数 )v.调音( tune的第三人称单数 )；调整；（给收音机、电视等）调谐；使协调
参考例句：
  • a potpourri of tunes 乐曲集锦
  • When things get a bit too much, she simply tunes out temporarily. 碰到事情太棘手时，她干脆暂时撒手不管。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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