Baby-sitting

时间：2016-06-17 07:24:53

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Baby-sitting

Gillian Clarke

I am sitting in a strange room listening

For the wrong baby. I don't love

This baby. She is sleeping a snuffly

Roseate, bubbling sleep; she is fair;

She is a perfectly¹ acceptable child.

I am afraid of her. If she wakes

She will hate me. She will shout

Her hot midnight rage, her nose

Will stream disgustingly and the perfume

Of her breath will fail to enchant² me.

To her I will represent absolute

Abandonment. For her it will be worse

Than for the lover cold in lonely

Sheets; worse than for the woman who waits

A moment to collect her dignity

Beside the bleached³ bone in the terminal ward⁴.

As she rises sobbing⁵ from the monstrous⁶ land

Stretching for milk-familiar comforting,

She will find me and between us two

It will not come. It will not come.

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1 perfectly
adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地
参考例句：
The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。 Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

2 enchant
vt.使陶醉，使入迷；使着魔，用妖术迷惑
参考例句：
The spectacle of the aurora may appear to dazzle and enchant the observer's eyes.极光的壮丽景色的出现,会使观察者为之眩目和迷惑。 Her paintings possess the power to enchant one if one is fortunate enough to see her work and hear her music.如果你有幸能欣赏她的作品，“聆听”她的音乐，她的作品将深深地迷住你。

3 bleached
漂白的，晒白的，颜色变浅的
参考例句：
His hair was bleached by the sun . 他的头发被太阳晒得发白。 The sun has bleached her yellow skirt. 阳光把她的黄裙子晒得褪色了。

4 ward
n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开
参考例句：
The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。 During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

5 sobbing
<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的
参考例句：
I heard a child sobbing loudly. 我听见有个孩子在呜呜地哭。 Her eyes were red with recent sobbing. 她的眼睛因刚哭过而发红。

6 monstrous
adj.巨大的；恐怖的；可耻的，丢脸的
参考例句：
The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.浓烟开始盘旋上升，形成了一个巨大的烟柱。 Your behaviour in class is monstrous!你在课堂上的行为真是丢人！