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Fire Sermon

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Fire Sermon

Robert Gray

The lissome¹（柔软的） bay is silvered slightly, in its supine lightness;

a stocking-textured water

takes the morning's cerise（樱桃色）.

But soon, between the headlands, sea and sky are solid blues

that have closed, almost

seamlessly, like stone.

And yachts have come out to climb on the sea's face, slow

and wavering -- the way

that cabbagemoths walk.

These foreshores are deeply tented in eucalyptus² saplings

and tea-trees, leaned

on the engorged light.

Here cicadas' sizzling strapped³ toffee strings⁴ of sound,

filmy and flashing, fuse

into sheets, all around.

Now the rhythmical⁵ light-points shoal the water thickly

as the shift to shoveled

gravel in cicadas' song.

Simmered eucalyptus oil vaporously uncoils, accompanying

angophoras, the dancing

Indras of rosy⁶ stone.

Dilated⁷ summer. It seems you can see into the Flame, while

light-cells teem⁸, cicadas thrum,

to its naked sensuous⁹（感觉上的） events.

On the far shore, house-faces are hung, white muslin among

bush humble¹⁰ as rubble

in the blue Empire.

I have left everything behind, for an endpaper shore; to lie

under membranous¹¹ layers, as

lights vault¹², coagulate（凝结）, rebound—

to see one ignite another, billowing, and genealogies¹³ decline;

to watch here day's ardor（热情，狂热）

that turns water into wine.

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1 lissome
adj.柔软的；敏捷的
参考例句：
The lissome birchbark canoe seemed to be a fish,so easily did it cut through the rolling black waves and ranks of ice.轻盈的桦皮舟像一条大鱼，在滚滚的黑色波涛和冰排中间飞一般地前进。 His works often present a smart and lissome feeling.他的作品通常给人以灵动而轻盈的观感。

2 eucalyptus
n.桉树，桉属植物
参考例句：
Eucalyptus oil is good for easing muscular aches and pains.桉树油可以很好地缓解肌肉的疼痛。 The birds rustled in the eucalyptus trees.鸟在桉树弄出沙沙的响声。

3 strapped
adj.用皮带捆住的，用皮带装饰的；身无分文的；缺钱；手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词)；用皮带抽打；包扎；给…打绷带
参考例句：
Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。来自《简明英汉词典》 The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 strings
n.弦
参考例句：
He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上，随意地拨着吉他的弦。 She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。

5 rhythmical
adj.有节奏的，有韵律的
参考例句：
His breathing became more rhythmical.他的呼吸变得更有节奏了。 The music is strongly rhythmical.那音乐有强烈的节奏。

6 rosy
adj.美好的，乐观的，玫瑰色的
参考例句：
She got a new job and her life looks rosy.她找到一份新工作，生活看上去很美好。 She always takes a rosy view of life.她总是对生活持乐观态度。

7 dilated
adj.加宽的，扩大的v.（使某物）扩大，膨胀，张大( dilate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
Her eyes dilated with fear. 她吓得瞪大了眼睛。 The cat dilated its eyes. 猫瞪大了双眼。来自《简明英汉词典》

8 teem
vi.(with)充满，多产
参考例句：
Good ideas teem in her head.她的头脑里好主意极多。 Fish teem in the Chinese waters.中国近海鱼产丰富。

9 sensuous
adj.激发美感的；感官的，感觉上的
参考例句：
Don't get the idea that value of music is commensurate with its sensuous appeal.不要以为音乐的价值与其美的感染力相等。 The flowers that wreathed his parlor stifled him with their sensuous perfume.包围著客厅的花以其刺激人的香味使他窒息。

10 humble
adj.谦卑的，恭顺的；地位低下的；v.降低，贬低
参考例句：
In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见，他将在选举中获胜。 Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。

11 membranous
adj.膜的，膜状的
参考例句：
Others are born live, after struggling to break free from a membranous egg sac. 其余的是冲破膜状蛋囊而出生的。来自电影对白 Thellos thellon, membranous layer of life is our only home. 薄薄的膜层就是咱们独一的家园。来自互联网

12 vault
n.拱形圆顶，地窖，地下室
参考例句：
The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。 The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。

13 genealogies
n.系谱，家系，宗谱( genealogy的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Tracing back our genealogies, I found he was a kinsman of mine. 转弯抹角算起来——他算是我的一个亲戚。来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说 The insertion of these genealogies is the more peculiar and unreasonable. 这些系谱的掺入是更为离奇和无理的。来自辞典例句

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