查询词典 Lethe

What America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?

当卡戎停止摆渡，而你登上烟雾缭绕的河岸伫立着凝视渡船在幽深的忘川河波涛中消失，在你的心中美国将是何等模样？

As from a benign Lethe

仿佛从一条仁慈的忘川

Looking like Lethe, see! the lake

且看那潭水，一如幽冥之忘河

Nothing is more destructive, either in regard to the health, or the vigilance and industry of the poor than the infamous liquor, the name of which, derived from Juniper in Dutch, is now by frequent use and the laconick spirit of the nation, from a word of middling length shrunk into a monosyllable, intoxicating gin, that charms the unactive, the desperate and crazy of either sex, and makes the starving sot behold his rags and nakedness with stupid indolence, or banter with in senseless laughter, and more insipid jests; it is a fiery lake that sets the brain in flame, burns up the entrails, and scorches every part within; and at the same time a Lethe of oblivion, in which the wretch immersed drowns his most pinching cares, and, with his reason all anxious reflections on brats that cry for food, hard winter's frosts, and horrid empty home.

没有什么比之&松子酒&这样一种臭名昭著的酒对于穷人们的健康、神经警觉和工作更为有害的东西了。这酒的名称原本来自荷兰语中对于桧类树木的称谓，现在，在一个崇尚简洁精神的国度里、通过经常性的使用，从一个中等长度的词汇压缩成了单音的、醉人的&松子酒&，迷惑着那些麻木绝望痴迷的男女，让饥饿的人带着愚昧的懒惰用袋子裹着裸体的身子干坐，或是无聊地说笑，讲着乏味的笑话活着；彷佛是个满是酒精的湖，把这些人的脑子点着了火，燃烧到肠子，烧到身体的各个部位；同时，忘神来了，把酒鬼们最后一点在意都淹没掉，一点良心都没有，不再焦虑地看着自己那些哭着要食物的儿郎，不再顾及冬天的霜冻和可怕空旷的家。

Ode to a nightingale的第一节中写道:my heart aches,and a drowsy numbness pains /my sense,as though of hemlock i had drunk,/or emptied some dull opiate to the drains /one minute past,and lethe-wards had sunk:/tis not through envy of thy happy lot,/but being too happy in thine happiness,-/that thou,light-winged dryad of the trees,/in some melodious plot /of beechen green,and shadows numberless,/singest of summer in fill-throated ease.

他的&能够停留在不肯定、神秘感、怀疑之中，而不是令人生厌地追求事实和真理&的这种&消极感受力&，深浸于万物而了解万物，成为了他的诗歌美学理念的基石。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。