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THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY

By Mark Twain (1835-1910)


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[From The Saturday Press, Nov. 18, 1865. Republished in The

Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches

(1867), by Mark Twain, all of whose works are published by Harper &

Brothers.]

In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after [記法2] my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; and that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it succeeded.

calaveras 卡拉韋拉斯縣是美國加利福尼亞州的一個縣，縣治聖安德烈亞斯。
compliance [記法] [kəm`plaɪəns; kəm'plaiəns] 聽從
garrulous [記法] [`gærələs; 'gærələs] 絮聒的
inquire [記法] [ɪn`kwaɪr; in'kwaiə] 詢問
hereunto 迄今
lurk [記法] [lɝk; lə:k] 潛藏
myth [mɪθ; miθ] 神話
personage [記法] [`pɝsnɪdʒ; 'pə:snidʒ] 大人物
conjecture [記法] [kən`dʒɛktʃɚ; kən'dʒɛktʃə] 猜測
infamous [`ɪnfəməs; 'infəməs] 惡名昭彰的
bore [記法] [bor, bɔr; bɔ:] 使煩擾
exasperating [記法] [ɪg`zæspəˌretɪŋ; g'zæspəreitiŋ] 使人惱怒的
reminiscence [記法] [ˌrɛmə`nɪsns; ˌrɛmi'nisns] 回憶
tedious [記法] [`tidɪəs, `tidʒəs; 'ti:djəs] 冗長而乏味

Stray Birds (9-12)

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Stray Birds

By Rabindranath Tagore


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ONCE we dreamt that we were strangers.

We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

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SORROW is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.

11

SOME unseen fingers, like idle breeze, are playing upon my heart the music of the ripples.

12

"WHAT language is thine, O sea?"

   "The language of eternal question."

"What language is thy answer, O sky?

   "The language of eternal silence."

sorrow [記法] [`sɑro, `sɔro; 'sɔrou] 悲傷
hushed [記法] 安靜的
idle [記法] [`aɪdl; 'aidl] 偶然的
breeze [記法] [briz; bri:z] 微風
ripple [記法] [`rɪpl; 'ripl] 漣漪
thine [ðaɪn; ðain] 汝之物
eternal [記法] [ɪ`tɝnl; i:'tə:nl, i-] 永恆的
thy [ðaɪ; ðai] 汝之

Stray Birds (4-8)

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Stray Birds

By Rabindranath Tagore

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IT is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
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THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
6
IF you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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THE sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden [記法2] of their lameness?
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HER wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

bloom [記法] [blum; blu:m] 花的盛開
mighty [記法] [`maɪtɪ; 'maiti] 強大的
desert [記法] [`dɛzɚt; 'dɛzət] 沙漠
blade [記法] [bled; bleid] 葉片
shed [記法] [ʃɛd; ʃɛd] 流出
lameness [記法] ['leimnis] 跛
wistful [記法] [`wɪstfəl; 'wistful] 企盼的
haunt [記法] [hɔnt; hɔ:nt] 縈繞於…之腦海中

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Stray Birds

By Rabindranath Tagore

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STRAY birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.

And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

2

O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.

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THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

stray [記法] [strei] a. 迷途的, 偶然的
troupe [記法] [tru:p] 團, 班, 一夥
vagrant [記法] [`vegrənt; 'veigrənt] 流浪者
vastness [記法] 浩瀚