第十届 杯翻译竞赛原文（英语组） Path Robert Macfarlane Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow‚ sand‚ mud‚ grass‚ dew‚ earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers‚ though‚ because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed. ‘Always‚ everywhere‚ people have walked‚
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Steve Pedersen “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ’: A Burkean/Ecocritical Reading” Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making‚ symbol-misusing) animal ........................................... separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making ...................................................... and rotten with perfection. (Burke 1‚ 2‚ 4‚ 5‚ 7) Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” elucidates Burke’s theory of “Man” as being “rotten with perfection” and shows
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grandparents. It all depends on what the person does to be considered a hero‚ such as a grandparent that would walk about 50 miles to get medicine for their sick grandson. That is what Phoenix Jackson did for her grandson in the short story‚ "A Worn Path". Phoenix Jackson is a very old woman who lives out in the backcountry of Mississippi with her sick grandson. She takes care of him because she is his only family left and he has some kind of a problem with his throat‚ he can’t talk anymore
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explicating poems‚ and actually I do not really like poetry‚ although they are beautiful and interesting because I often have a hard time to understand tem. In this essay‚ I choose two poems to explicate‚ which is “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”. Through the process of completing this assignment‚ I have a lot of struggles such as the deeper meaning of each line‚ the grammar‚ the balance between two poems‚ and the figurative languages. Furthermore‚ when I am writing the essay‚ I have
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Robert Frost’s poetry in The Road Not Taken Robert Frost was an American poet from New England; he is highly regarded for his realistic representations of rural life and his colloquial speech. The poem The Road Not Taken is a narrative poem which was published in 1916 by Frost. The speaker stands in the woods contemplating a fork in the road. Both paths are identically worn and overlaid with un-trodden leaves. After contemplating for a while the speaker chooses a path whilst reassuring himself
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the poems "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Choices" by Nikki Giovanni talk about how different choices can influence everything. They have many similarities‚ yet also many differences. In "The Road Not Taken"‚ it explains that life decisions have to be made at some point of our lives. Throughout the story‚ there is a pessimistic theme where the author regrets his decision on choosing the wrong path‚ imagining what would have happened if he had chosen the other path instead. As the
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the traveler‚ stood long and thought about which life would be better for me to live. Which path would have been more fullfilling to take. And after analyzing each of my choices‚ I chose to live my life the way I wanted to. I saw it‚ as the traveler saw the path‚ as a life that needed wear‚ because a lot of the peope I know live the life that their parents want for them. Even though I took the path of leading my own life‚ I still feel regret for not choosing the other way‚ because I always
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Essay #1: William Faulkner & Robert Frost William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is about a poor and unfortunate woman‚ named Emily‚ who leads a very personal and lonely life. The theme and story revolves around the secret life of Emily Grierson. The story takes place in the South and reflects the attitudes and lifestyle of the old South. The story begins by the new governor of Jefferson sending a deputation to Emily’s home to collect her taxes; but‚ Emily refuses by saying "See Colonel Sartoris
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that time. By the time we reach middle school not only have those goals changed but they are now completely opposite of the career path chosen in elementary school. At the high school level after having experienced working in different part-time jobs‚ we now know what career path we should not choose. Even at college level some still have not decided which career path to take. We all have natural talents‚ certain tasks that come easy to us. When we use our natural talents‚ time moves fast and we tend
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basically says that everyone is a traveler and choosing the roads to follow on the map of life is never a straight path that leaves someone with one single direction in which to head. The poet’s point of view in this poem is his belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. From the tone of this poem‚ he has an inspiring and thoughtful mood. "I shall be telling this with a sigh‚ somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I took the one less traveled
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