CHAPTER III

、Is summer’s festival only for fresh blossoms and not also for withered¹ leaves and faded flowers?

 

Is the song of the sea in tune² only with the rising waves?

 

Does it not also sing with the waves that fall?

 

Jewels are woven into the carpet where stands my king, but there are patient clods waiting to be touched by his feet.

 

Few are the wise and the great who sit by my Master, but he has taken the foolish in his arms and made me his servant for ever.

1 withered   

adj. 枯萎的，干瘪的，（人身体的部分器官）因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The grass had withered in the warm sun. 这些草在温暖的阳光下枯死了。
• The leaves of this tree have become dry and withered. 这棵树下的叶子干枯了。

2 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。