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Blind Crevasse

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Blind Crevasse¹

Lisa Williams

-- Polar explorer Richard Byrd

Hand by hand, over blistering² slivers（裂片）

of ice scraping wrists and slithering（滑动） in ears,

hand by hand, with ferocious³（残忍的） delicacy,

a furnace burning behind your efforts,

you pull your body away from that

crevasse（裂缝）, stand up, look back at what

you avoided, widening from one crack

to a vaster chasm⁴ hundreds of meters

down, sapphire⁵（蓝宝石）, then emerald damask

on vertical⁶ plunging⁷ walls, an endless

corridor of spiked⁸ sea glass --

You were cheek on crystal, in a terrible fallen

field, your left leg dangling⁹ over

the roof of a crater¹⁰ toothed（锯齿状的） with punched

translucence. Ecstatic to leave the past,

to have glimpsed its Kublaian center, you

walk in an opposite direction

but it's still close to you sometimes,

half-lit, a story you might enter,

a submerged star, its azure¹¹（蔚蓝的） pinnacles

ruminant. Did you think it wouldn't

fool you again, since you are safe

from its jewelled, devouring¹² throat, the masked

abyssal（深海的） draw of its depression

covered by a fresh and blinding snow?

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1 crevasse
n. 裂缝，破口；v.使有裂缝
参考例句：
The deep crevasse yawned at their feet.他们脚下的冰川有一道深深的裂缝。 He fell down a crevasse.他从裂缝处摔了下来。

2 blistering
adj.酷热的；猛烈的；使起疱的；可恶的v.起水疱；起气泡；使受暴晒n.[涂料] 起泡
参考例句：
The runners set off at a blistering pace. 赛跑运动员如脱缰野马般起跑了。 This failure is known as preferential wetting and is responsible for blistering. 这种故障称为优先吸湿，是产生气泡的原因。来自辞典例句

3 ferocious
adj.凶猛的，残暴的，极度的，十分强烈的
参考例句：
The ferocious winds seemed about to tear the ship to pieces.狂风仿佛要把船撕成碎片似的。 The ferocious panther is chasing a rabbit.那只凶猛的豹子正追赶一只兔子。

4 chasm
n.深坑，断层，裂口，大分岐，利害冲突
参考例句：
There's a chasm between rich and poor in that society.那社会中存在着贫富差距。 A huge chasm gaped before them.他们面前有个巨大的裂痕。

5 sapphire
n.青玉，蓝宝石；adj.天蓝色的
参考例句：
Now let us consider crystals such as diamond or sapphire.现在让我们考虑象钻石和蓝宝石这样的晶体。 He left a sapphire ring to her.他留给她一枚蓝宝石戒指。

6 vertical
adj.垂直的，顶点的，纵向的；n.垂直物，垂直的位置
参考例句：
The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。 Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。

7 plunging
adj.跳进的，突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降
参考例句：
War broke out again, plunging the people into misery and suffering. 战祸复发，生灵涂炭。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 He is plunging into an abyss of despair. 他陷入了绝望的深渊。来自《简明英汉词典》

8 spiked
adj.有穗的；成锥形的；有尖顶的
参考例句：
The editor spiked the story. 编辑删去了这篇报道。来自《简明英汉词典》 They wondered whether their drinks had been spiked. 他们有些疑惑自己的饮料里是否被偷偷搀了烈性酒。来自辞典例句

9 dangling
悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )；摆动不定；用某事物诱惑…；吊胃口
参考例句：
The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。 The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。

10 crater
n.火山口，弹坑
参考例句：
With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。 They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。

11 azure
adj.天蓝色的，蔚蓝色的
参考例句：
His eyes are azure.他的眼睛是天蓝色的。 The sun shone out of a clear azure sky.清朗蔚蓝的天空中阳光明媚。

12 devouring
吞没( devour的现在分词 )；耗尽；津津有味地看；狼吞虎咽地吃光
参考例句：
The hungry boy was devouring his dinner. 那饥饿的孩子狼吞虎咽地吃饭。 He is devouring novel after novel. 他一味贪看小说。