Mrs. Gordon's Garden

时间：2007-01-16 06:43:42

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Mrs. Gordon's garden grows
not a radish nor a rose.
Not a beet1 or blade of grass
in the bed beside our class.
Not a truffle. Not a tree.
Not a pepper nor or pea.
Not a pansy, peach or pear.
No azaleas anywhere.
Not a pumpkin2, parsnip, plum,
carrot or chrysanthemum3.
No forget-me-not or fig4.
Not a single sprout5 or twig6.
No carnations7, cabbage, corn.
Not a thistle, thatch8 or thorn.
Not a berry. Not a bean.
Nothing yet remotely green.
Watering and sprinkling seeds,
watching warily9 for weeds,
Mrs. Gordon rakes and hoes.
Still her garden never grows.
But she doesn't seem to mind.
That's the way it was designed.
Mrs. Gordon's quite content
gardening upon cement.

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1 beet 9uXzV     
n.甜菜；甜菜根
参考例句：
  • He farmed his pickers to work in the beet fields. 他出租他的摘棉工去甜菜地里干活。
  • The sugar beet is an entirely different kind of plant.糖用甜菜是一种完全不同的作物。
2 pumpkin NtKy8     
n.南瓜
参考例句：
  • They ate turkey and pumpkin pie.他们吃了火鸡和南瓜馅饼。
  • It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!看起来就像南瓜里有人在看着你！
3 chrysanthemum Sbryd     
n.菊，菊花
参考例句：
  • Each mourner wore a black armband and a white paper chrysanthemum.每个吊唁的人都佩带着黑纱和一朵白纸菊花。
  • There are many species of chrysanthemum.菊花品种很多。
4 fig L74yI     
n.无花果(树)
参考例句：
  • The doctor finished the fig he had been eating and selected another.这位医生吃完了嘴里的无花果，又挑了一个。
  • You can't find a person who doesn't know fig in the United States.你找不到任何一个在美国的人不知道无花果的。
5 sprout ITizY     
n.芽，萌芽；vt.使发芽，摘去芽；vi.长芽，抽条
参考例句：
  • When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角？
  • It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。
6 twig VK1zg     
n.小树枝，嫩枝；v.理解
参考例句：
  • He heard the sharp crack of a twig.他听到树枝清脆的断裂声。
  • The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.细枝突然折断的刺耳声把獾惊跑了。
7 carnations 4fde4d136e97cb7bead4d352ae4578ed     
n.麝香石竹，康乃馨( carnation的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • You should also include some carnations to emphasize your underlying meaning.\" 另外要配上石竹花来加重这涵意的力量。” 来自汉英文学 - 围城
  • Five men per ha. were required for rose production, 6 or 7 men for carnations. 种植玫瑰每公顷需5个男劳力，香石竹需6、7个男劳力。 来自辞典例句
8 thatch FGJyg     
vt.用茅草覆盖…的顶部；n.茅草(屋)
参考例句：
  • They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.他们点着一支火把，放火烧了小教堂的茅草屋顶。
  • They topped off the hut with a straw thatch. 他们给小屋盖上茅草屋顶。
9 warily 5gvwz     
adv.留心地
参考例句：
  • He looked warily around him,pretending to look after Carrie.他小心地看了一下四周，假装是在照顾嘉莉。
  • They were heading warily to a point in the enemy line.他们正小心翼翼地向着敌人封锁线的某一处前进。

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