To see the golden sun and the azure（蔚蓝的） sky, the outstretched（扩张的） ocean, to walk upon the green earth, and to be lord of a thousand creatures, to look down giddy（头晕的） precipices（悬崖） or over distant flowery vales, to see the world spread out under one's finger in a map, to bring the stars near, to view the smallest insects in a microscope, to read history, and witness the revolutions of empires and the succession of generations, to hear of the glory of Simon and Tire, of Babylon and Susan, as of a faded pageant, and to say all these were, and are now nothing, to think that we exist in such a point of time ,and in such a corner of space, to be at once spectators and a part of the moving scene, to watch the return of the seasons, of spring and autumn, to hear---
The stock dove plain amid the forest deep,
That drowsy（沉寂的） rustles to the sighing gale.
---to traverse（穿过） desert wilderness, to listen to the dungeon's gloom, or sit in crowded theatres and see life itself mocked, to feel heat and cold, pleasure and pain, right and wrong, truth and falsehood, to study the works of art and refine the sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream of immortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton; to be and to do all this, and then in a moment to be nothing, to have it all snatched from one like a juggler's ball or a phantasmagoria（魔术幻灯）.
相关单词：azure
azure解释：adj.天蓝色的，蔚蓝色的
azure例句：
His eyes are azure.他的眼睛是天蓝色的。
The sun shone out of a clear azure sky.清朗蔚蓝的天空中阳光明媚。
相关单词：precipices
precipices解释：n.悬崖，峭壁( precipice的名词复数 )
precipices例句：
Sheer above us rose the Spy-glass, here dotted with single pines, there black with precipices. 我们的头顶上方耸立着陡峭的望远镜山，上面长着几棵孤零零的松树，其他地方则是黑黝黝的悬崖绝壁。 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
Few people can climb up to the sheer precipices and overhanging rocks. 悬崖绝壁很少有人能登上去。 来自互联网
相关单词：pageant
pageant解释：n.壮观的游行；露天历史剧
pageant例句：
Our pageant represented scenes from history.我们的露天历史剧上演一幕幕的历史事件。
The inauguration ceremony of the new President was a splendid pageant.新主席的就职典礼的开始是极其壮观的。
相关单词：drowsy
drowsy解释：adj.昏昏欲睡的，令人发困的
drowsy例句：
Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉，还引起了头疼。
I feel drowsy after lunch every day.每天午饭后我就想睡觉。
相关单词：rustles
rustles解释：n.发出沙沙的声音( rustle的名词复数 )v.发出沙沙的声音( rustle的第三人称单数 )
rustles例句：
A slight breeze rustles the tan grass. 微风拂来，黄褐色的草沙沙作响。 来自互联网
相关单词：gale
gale解释：n.大风，强风，一阵闹声（尤指笑声等）
gale例句：
We got our roof blown off in the gale last night.昨夜的大风把我们的房顶给掀掉了。
According to the weather forecast,there will be a gale tomorrow.据气象台预报，明天有大风。
相关单词：wilderness
wilderness解释：n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠
wilderness例句：
She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
相关单词：immortality
immortality解释：n.不死，不朽
immortality例句：
belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念
It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。
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