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We Didn't Start the Fire

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We Didn't Start the Fire

Will Schutt

Two doors down lived a descendant of de Sade.

He rode a vintage（古老的，最佳的） Trek¹ in a gingham（条纹棉布） shirt.

A blue Hamsa strung around his neck

waved when he waved. The name meant

nearly nil² to us, cluelessly humming the catalog

of history in "We Didn't Start the Fire"—

Harry³ Truman, Ho Chi Minh, Rockefeller, Roy Cohn.

Hunting arrowheads, we made off with a haul

of tangled⁴ wires, nickeled tubs. Some inheritance.

Children of thalidomide, hypodermics（皮下注射） on the shore.

Between the cemetery⁵ and schoolhouse

rows of thuja formed a buffer⁶. Most headstones

looked as if an animal had rubbed his back

up and down against them. Most hurricanes

amounted to little more than steady drizzle⁷.

Townies spray-painted the bridge: "Sayonara,

Bob" or "Safe travels, Sucker." At sunset

summer people walked their drinks down

to the beach—the happy human chain—

each tethered to one spot, each for now alive.

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1 trek
vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行
参考例句：
We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。 It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

2 nil
n.无，全无，零
参考例句：
My knowledge of the subject is practically nil.我在这方面的知识几乎等于零。 Their legal rights are virtually nil.他们实际上毫无法律权利。

3 harry
vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼
参考例句：
Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。 Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

4 tangled
adj. 纠缠的，紊乱的动词tangle的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
Your hair's so tangled that I can't comb it. 你的头发太乱了，我梳不动。 A movement caught his eye in the tangled undergrowth. 乱灌木丛里的晃动引起了他的注意。

5 cemetery
n.坟墓，墓地，坟场
参考例句：
He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。 His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。

6 buffer
n.起缓冲作用的人(或物)，缓冲器；vt.缓冲
参考例句：
A little money can be a useful buffer in time of need.在急需时，很少一点钱就能解燃眉之急。 Romantic love will buffer you against life's hardships.浪漫的爱会减轻生活的艰辛。

7 drizzle
v.下毛毛雨；n.毛毛雨，蒙蒙细雨
参考例句：
The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小，最后变成了毛毛雨。 Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨，今天果然下起来了。

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