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Hurricane Season

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Hurricane Season

John Hennessy

Those red and yellow windbreakers signal

how little time's left for spending

and selling; signing sleeves unravel

the seams of a flattened¹ horizon

as fast as hands pull wallets from pockets

or unstitch sow's-ear purses. Something

sharper than hunger's razor divides

the boardwalk crowds confined to land,

demands the shucking of so many buckets

of mussels and steamers, sweet corn roasted

on oil-drum fires, consumes all the candy-

and caramel-coated apples hawked

by women walking carts back and forth,

and so thoroughly² strips shops and stands

of totems（图腾） to guard against a winter's worth

of curses: flip-flops, boogie boards,

pinwheels and Frisbees, crabs³ in wire cages,

shells children must have painted. And one

raving⁴ old man is driven to scan

his metal detector⁵ across the sand,

gauge（测量，估计） headphones' hissing⁶ transmissions, scoop

bottle caps in a sifter⁷. How amusing we

must seem, sprouting⁸ full-grown from his head—

surfers in wet suits saddling the chop,

circling his shoulders with sea grass,

shock cords, the seeds of strange ideas

seized in our beaks⁹. Until the wake

we scratch through muddied sets severs

connections, and we disappear behind darker

swells, mount, descend¹⁰, and rise again.

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1 flattened
[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的
参考例句：
She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。 I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。

2 thoroughly
adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地
参考例句：
The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。 The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。

3 crabs
n.蟹( crab的名词复数 )；阴虱寄生病；蟹肉v.捕蟹( crab的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
As we walked along the seashore we saw lots of tiny crabs. 我们在海岸上散步时看到很多小蟹。来自《简明英汉词典》 The fish and crabs scavenge for decaying tissue. 鱼和蟹搜寻腐烂的组织为食。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 raving
adj.说胡话的；疯狂的，怒吼的；非常漂亮的；令人醉心[痴心]的v.胡言乱语(rave的现在分词)n.胡话；疯话adv.胡言乱语地；疯狂地
参考例句：
The man's a raving lunatic. 那个男子是个语无伦次的疯子。 When I told her I'd crashed her car, she went stark raving bonkers. 我告诉她我把她的车撞坏了时，她暴跳如雷。

5 detector
n.发觉者，探测器
参考例句：
The detector is housed in a streamlined cylindrical container.探测器安装在流线型圆柱形容器内。 Please walk through the metal detector.请走过金属检测器。

6 hissing
n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视动词hiss的现在分词形式
参考例句：
The steam escaped with a loud hissing noise. 蒸汽大声地嘶嘶冒了出来。 His ears were still hissing with the rustle of the leaves. 他耳朵里还听得萨萨萨的声音和屑索屑索的怪声。来自汉英文学 - 春蚕

7 sifter
n.（用于筛撒粉状食物的）筛具，撒粉器；滤器；罗圈；罗
参考例句：
She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter. 她用蓟筛筛蓟。来自《简明英汉词典》 This paper deals with a nitempering process of sifter mesh. 研究了一种筛片的软氮化工艺。来自互联网

8 sprouting
v.发芽( sprout的现在分词 )；抽芽；出现；（使）涌现出
参考例句：
new leaves sprouting from the trees 树上长出的新叶 They were putting fresh earth around sprouting potato stalks. 他们在往绽出新芽的土豆秧周围培新土。来自名作英译部分

9 beaks
n.鸟嘴( beak的名词复数 )；鹰钩嘴；尖鼻子；掌权者
参考例句：
Baby cockatoos will have black eyes and soft, almost flexible beaks. 雏鸟凤头鹦鹉黑色的眼睛是柔和的，嘴几乎是灵活的。来自互联网 Squid beaks are often found in the stomachs of sperm whales. 经常能在抹香鲸的胃里发现鱿鱼的嘴。来自互联网

10 descend
vt./vi.传下来，下来，下降
参考例句：
I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。 We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。