The Not-Yet Child

时间：2007-05-16 09:24:31

（单词翻译:单击）

by Joshua Weiner

Why won't you make me now who wants a life

Inside your life？

I fear you as a thief

Stealing about the orchards¹ of my future，

Green fruit glistening² above a starving creature.

To increase the coin buried inside yourself

You need exchange it for an alien wealth.

Wealth being you？ I need to spend my hoard³

On public conquests of a private world：

Take drugs and chances， love recklessly， and build.

I promise I'm your most famous bright adventure.

My stanzas⁴ will collapse⁵， mere⁶ rooms in nature. . . .

I understand： you dwell on agony，

But there you'll shape your strongest poem， me.

Your cry will play the tune⁷ ending my work

As health plays boss over the art I serve.

Not always helpless， some day I'll help you，

And you'll be grateful for what I give to you.

Fever， high blood pressure， and sleeplessness⁸？

I've my beloved to cause me such distress⁹，

And in my distress I find again denial——

If I'm the father how can I stay the child？

Make me， and as your face grows old

You'll find in my face your face taking hold.

That's vanity you call posterity¹⁰.

Afraid the future bears what you want to see？

Of what I could become but might not be.

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1 orchards
（通常指围起来的）果园( orchard的名词复数 )
参考例句：
They turned the hills into orchards and plains into granaries. 他们把山坡变成了果园，把平地变成了粮仓。 Some of the new planted apple orchards have also begun to bear. 有些新开的苹果园也开始结苹果了。

2 glistening
adj.闪耀的，反光的v.湿物闪耀，闪亮( glisten的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Her eyes were glistening with tears. 她眼里闪着晶莹的泪花。 Her eyes were glistening with tears. 她眼睛中的泪水闪着柔和的光。来自《用法词典》

3 hoard
n./v.窖藏，贮存，囤积
参考例句：
They have a hoard of food in the basement.地下室里有他们贮藏的食物。 How many curios do you hoard in your study?你在你书房里聚藏了多少古玩？

4 stanzas
节，段( stanza的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The poem has six stanzas. 这首诗有六小节。 Stanzas are different from each other in one poem. 诗中节与节差异颇大。

5 collapse
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
参考例句：
The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。 The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

6 mere
adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过
参考例句：
That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。 It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。

7 tune
n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整
参考例句：
He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。 The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

8 sleeplessness
n.失眠，警觉
参考例句：
Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness. 现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。来自《简明英汉词典》 The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. 医生们对他的奇异的不眠感到疑惑。来自英语晨读30分（高三）

9 distress
n.苦恼，痛苦，不舒适；不幸；vt.使悲痛
参考例句：
Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。 Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。

10 posterity
n.后裔，子孙，后代
参考例句：
Few of his works will go down to posterity.他的作品没有几件会流传到后世。 The names of those who died are recorded for posterity on a tablet at the back of the church.死者姓名都刻在教堂后面的一块石匾上以便后人铭记。