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The Mundane Shell

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The Mundane¹ Shell is a vast Concave Earth， an immense

Harden'd Shadow of all things upon our Vegetated² Earth，

Enlarg'd into Dimension and deform'd into indefinite Space，

In Twenty-seven Heavens and all their Hells， with Chaos³

And Ancient Night and Purgatory⁴. It is a cavernous Earth

Of labyrinthine⁵ intricacy， twenty- seven folds of Opaqueness⁶，

And finishes where the lark⁷ mounts.

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1 mundane
adj.平凡的；尘世的；宇宙的
参考例句：
I hope I can get an interesting job and not something mundane.我希望我可以得到的是一份有趣的工作，而不是一份平凡无奇的。 I find it humorous sometimes that even the most mundane occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.我发现生活有时挺诙谐的，即使是最平凡的事情也能影响我们的感知。

2 vegetated
v.过单调呆板的生活( vegetate的过去式和过去分词 )；植物似地生长；（瘤、疣等）长大
参考例句：
The bacterial growth vegetated along. 细菌的生长繁殖很快。来自互联网 They vegetated the hills behind their house. 他们在他们的屋后的山上种植被。来自互联网

3 chaos
n.混乱，无秩序
参考例句：
After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。 The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

4 purgatory
n.炼狱；苦难；adj.净化的，清洗的
参考例句：
Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.最后3英里时每一步都像是受罪。 Marriage,with peace,is this world's paradise;with strife,this world's purgatory.和谐的婚姻是尘世的乐园，不和谐的婚姻则是人生的炼狱。

5 labyrinthine
adj.如迷宫的；复杂的
参考例句：
His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink.他的思绪，早滑进到双重思想迷宫般的世界里去。 The streets of the Old City are narrow and labyrinthine.老城区的街道狭促曲折，好似迷宫一般。

6 opaqueness
[化] 不透明性，不透明度
参考例句：
Saudi Arabia obscures its vulnerability by opaqueness. 沙特阿拉伯人以其神秘莫测来掩饰其脆弱。来自辞典例句 It has exposed the fragility of the foundations of private finance: opaqueness, hazard and sometimes fraud. 它暴露出了私人金融根基的脆弱性——不透明、冒险、甚至有时还有欺诈行为。来自互联网

7 lark
n.云雀，百灵鸟；n.嬉戏，玩笑；vi.嬉戏
参考例句：
He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了。 She lived in the village with her grandparents as cheerful as a lark.她同祖父母一起住在乡间非常快活。