From a Weekend First

时间：2014-08-08 06:40:03

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From a Weekend First
Paul Farley
 
 
One for the money. Arrangements in green and grey 
 from the window of an empty dining-car. 
 No takers for this Burgundy today 
 apart from me. I'll raise a weighted stem 
 to my homeland scattering1 by, be grateful for 
 these easy-on-the-eye, Army & Navy 
 surplus camouflage2（伪装） colours that seem 
 to mask all trace of life and industry; 
 
a draft for the hidden dead, our forefathers, 
 the landfills of the mind where they turned in 
 with the plush（豪华的） and orange peel of yesteryear（不久以前）, 
 used up and entertained and put to bed 
 at last; to this view where everything seems to turn 
 on the middle distance. Crematoria, multiplex 
 way stations in the form of big sheds 
 that house their promises of goods and sex; 
 
to the promise of a university town, 
 its spires3 and playing fields. No border guards 
 will board at this station, no shakedown 
 relieve me of papers or contraband（走私货）: 
 this is England. Nobody will pull the cord 
 on these thoughts, though the cutlery and glasses 
 set for dinner are tinkling4 at a bend, 
 a carriage full of ghosts taking their places. 
 
Now drink to slow outskirts5, the colour wheels 
 of fifty years collected in windows; 
 to worlds of interiors, to credit deals 
 with nothing to pay until next year, postcodes 
 where water hardens, then softens6, where rows 
 of streetlights become the dominant7 motif 
 as day drains, and I see myself transposed 
 into the dark, lifting my glass. Belief 
 
is one thing, though the dead have none of it. 
 What would they make of me? This pinot noir 
 on my expenses, time enough to write 
 this on a Virgin8 antimacassar --
 the miles of feint, the months of Sunday school, 
 the gallons of free milk, all led to here: 
 an empty dining-car, a single fool 
 reflected endlessly on the night air.

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1 scattering 91b52389e84f945a976e96cd577a4e0c     
n.[物]散射；散乱，分散；在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的；分散在不同范围的；广泛扩散的；（选票）数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式)；散布；驱散
参考例句：
  • The child felle into a rage and began scattering its toys about. 这孩子突发狂怒，把玩具扔得满地都是。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The farmers are scattering seed. 农夫们在播种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 camouflage NsnzR     
n./v.掩饰，伪装
参考例句：
  • The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.北极熊身上的白色的浓密软毛是一种天然的伪装。
  • The animal's markings provide effective camouflage.这种动物身上的斑纹是很有效的伪装。
3 spires 89c7a5b33df162052a427ff0c7ab3cc6     
n.（教堂的） 塔尖，尖顶( spire的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Her masts leveled with the spires of churches. 船的桅杆和教堂的塔尖一样高。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • White church spires lift above green valleys. 教堂的白色尖顶耸立在绿色山谷中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 tinkling Rg3zG6     
n.丁当作响声
参考例句：
  • I could hear bells tinkling in the distance. 我能听到远处叮当铃响。
  • To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical-box. 跟他说话，犹如听一架老掉牙的八音盒子丁冬响。 来自英汉文学
5 outskirts gmDz7W     
n.郊外，郊区
参考例句：
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
6 softens 8f06d4fce5859f2737f5a09a715a2d27     
（使）变软( soften的第三人称单数 )； 缓解打击； 缓和； 安慰
参考例句：
  • Iron softens with heat. 铁受热就软化。
  • Moonlight softens our faults; all shabbiness dissolves into shadow. 月光淡化了我们的各种缺点，所有的卑微都化解为依稀朦胧的阴影。 来自名作英译部分
7 dominant usAxG     
adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因
参考例句：
  • The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
  • She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。
8 virgin phPwj     
n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的
参考例句：
  • Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
  • There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

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