磨炼

E. Cummings, Malcolm Cowley, and many other novelists, dramatists, poets, and critics who tried to find their souls in the Antibes and on the Left Bank, who directed sad and bitter blasts at their native land and who, almost to a man, drifted back within a few years out of sheer homesickness, to take up residence on coastal islands and in New England farmhouses and to produce works ripened by the tempering (they lived there and got a kind of practice in critical thinking) of an older, more sophisticated society.

安德森、马修·约瑟夫森、J哈罗德斯特恩斯、TS'艾略特、E.E。卡明斯、马尔科姆考利，以及其他许多小说家、戏剧家、诗人和评论家，都曾在法国的昂蒂布和塞纳河左岸地区探索过自己的灵魂，都怀着满腔孤愤对自己的祖国进行过猛烈辛辣的抨击·而目。在几年之后，纯粹出于思乡情切，几乎无一例外地又都漂洋过海，回到祖国，定居于沿海小岛上和新英格兰地区的农庄上，来创作他们由于在一个更古老、更复杂的社会里经受磨炼而变得成熟了的作品。

A gentleman, writing about the breaking up of old ships, recently said that it is not the age alone which improves the quality of the fiber in the wood of an old vessel, but the straining and wrenching of the vessel by the sea, the chemical action of the bilge water, and of many kinds of cargoes.

有一个人提出了关於拆卸古老海船的报告，他说旧船木料质地之所以佳良，不仅因为年代久远，而且还因为船只曾在海上历受了种种的磨炼，以及它所接触的海水，所载的各种货品，使它发生了化学作用。

AGENTLEMAN, writing about the breaking up of old ships, recently said that it is not the age alone which improves the quality of the fiber in the wood of an old vessel, but the straining and wrenching of the vessel by the sea, the chemical action of the bilge water, and of many kinds of cargoes.

有一个人提出了关于拆卸古老海船的报告，他说旧船木料质地之所以佳良，不仅因为年代久远，而且还因为船只曾在海上历受了种种的磨炼，以及它所接触的海水，所载的各种货品，使它发生了化学作用。

Fishing can calm down myself and chasten my patience.

垂钓可以平静我的心情﹐磨炼我的耐性。

I, Son of God, trained in the change and tumult of corporeal worlds.

我是神之子，在变动和物质世界的喧嚣中磨炼。

Be not allowed to have denied that he is really not a all-round vanguard of technology now, but time for 4 years is enough for him to dawdle away tempering self with fire.

不可否认，他现在并不是一个技术全面的前锋，但四年的时间足够他磨炼自己的了。

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways.I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out If anybody knows of it,it will not count.

就为了今天，我会用三种方法来磨炼我的灵魂，我会做对某人有利的事但不能被发现，弱有人发现了就不算数。

The fire is the test of gold; adversity is the test of a strong

火对金子是考验，逆境对人是磨炼。

His agony in Gethsemane, His betrayal and crucifixion, would be to them a most trying ordeal.

他在客西马尼园的痛苦挣扎，他的被卖和被钉，对他们将是最难忍的磨炼。

When you join the Army, you have to go through the mill, as the training is very severe.

如果你参军，你就得经受磨炼，因为训练是非常严格的。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。