swale
swale 英 [sweɪl] 美 [swel]
vt. 放火烧；耗费 n. 沼泽地 vi. 烧焦；熔化
名词复数:swales
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- vt. 放火烧；耗费
- n. 沼泽地
- vi. 烧焦；熔化
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1. In "Mowing," the poem's lines are like sweeps of the scythe as it lays down rows of swale. Frost wants us to think about that.
在“割草“中字里行间就像是镰刀扫过,当它放倒一排排的麦子时，弗罗斯特想要我们仔细思考。
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2. He has that phrase, / "Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak / to the earnest love that laid the swale in rows.
他写了这样一句，任何超过真理的东西都显得很脆弱/,用最真挚的爱意割下一排排草。
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3. The word "swale" is interesting. You hear in it the s and the w, the two key sounds of this poem, which are the sounds of the whispering scythe.
沼泽地“这个词很有意思，听到S和W的发音了吧，这是这首诗的关键发音，也是低语着的镰刀的声音。
- swale (n.) "low, hollow place, often boggy," 1580s, special use of Scottish swaill "low, hollow place," or East Anglian dialectal swale "shady place" (mid-15c.); both probably from Old Norse svalr "cool," from Proto-Germanic *swalaz. A local word in England, in U.S. given broad application, especially to the lower tracts of the prairie and recently to landscaping features in suburban developments.
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