Vessels

时间：2013-10-29 04:52:14

（单词翻译:单击）

Vessels1
Paisley Rekdal
 
Shouldn't it ache, this slit（裂缝） 
 into the sweet
 and salt mix of  waters 
 
comprising the mussel（蚌）, 
 its labial2 meats 
 winged open: yellow- 
 
fleshed, black and gray
 around the tough
 adductor（内收肌）? It hurts
 
to imagine it, regardless
 of the harvester's
 denials, swiveling（旋转的） 
 
his knife to make 
 the incision3: one
 dull cyst nicked
 
from the oyster's 
 mantle4 -- its thread of red 
 gland no bigger
 
than a seed 
 of  trout5 roe -- pressed 
 inside the tendered
 
flesh. Both hosts eased
 open with a knife 
 (as if anything
 
could be said to be eased
 with a knife): 
 so that one pearl
 
after another can be 
 harvested, polished, 
 added to others 
 
until a single rope is strung 
 on silk. Linked 
 by what you think
 
is pain. Nothing 
 could be so roughly 
 handled and yet feel 
 
so little, your pity 
 turned into part of this 
 production: you 
 
with your small,
 four-chambered heart, 
 shyness, hungers, envy: what
 
could be so precious 
 you'd cleave 
 another to keep it
 
close? Imagine 
 the weeks it takes to wind 
 nacre over the red
 
seed placed at the other 
 heart's mantle. 
 The mussel 
 
become what no one 
 wants to:
 vessel, caisson, wounded 
 
into making us 
 the thing we want
 to call beautiful.

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1 vessels fc9307c2593b522954eadb3ee6c57480     
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 )；船；容器；（具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的）人
参考例句：
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 labial Jpuz9M     
adj.唇的；唇音的；n.唇音，风琴管
参考例句：
  • Why to eat mango to you can cause labial allergy?吃芒果为什么会引发嘴唇过敏？
  • I feel my labial color fantastic!我感觉自己的唇色棒极了！
3 incision w4Dy7     
n．切口，切开
参考例句：
  • The surgeon made a small incision in the patient's cornea.外科医生在病人的眼角膜上切开一个小口。
  • The technique involves making a tiny incision in the skin.这项技术需要在皮肤上切一个小口。
4 mantle Y7tzs     
n.斗篷，覆罩之物，罩子；v.罩住，覆盖，脸红
参考例句：
  • The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green.大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
  • The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow.山上覆盖着一层雪。
5 trout PKDzs     
n.鳟鱼；鲑鱼(属)
参考例句：
  • Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.成千上万的鲑鱼和鳟鱼的鱼苗因污染而死亡。
  • We hooked a trout and had it for breakfast.我们钓了一条鳟鱼，早饭时吃了。

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