A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
树
Trees
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
飓风报道的第一条规则是,每次广播必须从棕榈树在风中弯曲开始。
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
我在院子里,以为这棵树是有生命的。我们认为树木是理所当然的。我们不相信他们像我们一样活着。
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
你不要行事正直,因为你往树林去,必看见直树被砍倒,弯曲的树还存留。
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
一首诗不会因拙劣而生涩。正如树木在春天产生了新的组织,每个诗人都在同一季节提出了一项新的支出。
As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
当我还是个孩子的时候,我想我可能有精神病,但我过去常常把高尔夫球扔到树上,试着用它们打出标准杆。我觉得很有趣。
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
几分钟前,每棵树都很兴奋,向怒吼的暴风雨鞠躬,摇摆着,打旋着,挥动着它们的枝干,像在顶礼膜拜。虽然在外耳中,这些树现在是沉默的,但它们的歌声永不停息。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.
正如高大的树木因其阴影而为人所知,好人也因其敌人而为人所知。
Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die.
有些树太深了,根本无法移动,如果被连根拔起,它们就会死亡。
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
树爱摇摆;他们发出如此快乐的声音。
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
秋天是第二个春天,当每一片叶子都是一朵花。
Like people, trees are all individuals.
树和人一样,都是独立的个体。
The Druids held the trees as very sacred.
德鲁伊们把这些树视为神圣的。