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SHAKESPEARE AND THE SEA
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Quite recently it was suggested by the writer of an article in the Spectator that Shakespeare was now but little read,—that while his works were quoted from as much as ever, the quotations1 were obtained at second hand, and that it would be hard to find to-day any reader who had waded3 through all that wonderful collection of plays and poems. This is surely not a carefully made statement. If there were any amount of truth in it, we might well regard such a state of things as only one degree less deplorable than that people should have ceased to read the Bible. For next to the Bible there can be no such collection of writings available wherein may be found food for every mind. Even the sailor, critical as he always is of allusions5 to the technicalities of his calling that appear in literature, is arrested by the truth of Shakespeare’s references to the sea and seafaring, while he cannot but wonder at their copiousness6 in the work of a thorough landsman. Of course, in this respect it is necessary to remember that Elizabethan England spoke7 a language which was far more frequently studded with sea-terms than that which we speak ashore8 to-day. With all our vast commerce and our utter dependence9 upon the sea for our very life; its romance, its expressions take little hold of the immense majority of the people. Therein we differ widely from Americans. In every walk of life, from Maine to Mexico, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the American people salt their speech with terms borrowed from the sailor, as they do also with other terms used by Shakespeare, and often considered by Shakespeare’s countrymen of the present day, quite wrongly, to be slang.
In what is perhaps the most splendidly picturesque10 effort of Shakespeare’s genius, “The Tempest,” he
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1 quotations | |
n.引用( quotation的名词复数 );[商业]行情(报告);(货物或股票的)市价;时价 | |
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2 quotation | |
n.引文,引语,语录;报价,牌价,行情 | |
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3 waded | |
(从水、泥等)蹚,走过,跋( wade的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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4 allusion | |
n.暗示,间接提示 | |
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5 allusions | |
暗指,间接提到( allusion的名词复数 ) | |
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6 copiousness | |
n.丰裕,旺盛 | |
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7 spoke | |
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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8 ashore | |
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸 | |
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9 dependence | |
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属 | |
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10 picturesque | |
adj.美丽如画的,(语言)生动的,绘声绘色的 | |
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v.猛投,用力掷( hurl的第三人称单数 );大声叫骂 | |
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12 noted | |
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13 alludes | |
提及,暗指( allude的第三人称单数 ) | |
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14 justify | |
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15 colloquy | |
n.谈话,自由讨论 | |
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16 immediate | |
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17 inquiry | |
n.打听,询问,调查,查问 | |
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18 mariners | |
海员,水手(mariner的复数形式) | |
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19 mar | |
vt.破坏,毁坏,弄糟 | |
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20 nautical | |
adj.海上的,航海的,船员的 | |
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21 essentially | |
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22 alluded | |
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23 meddlesome | |
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24 hampering | |
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的现在分词 ) | |
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25 exasperated | |
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26 winding | |
n.绕,缠,绕组,线圈 | |
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27 gale | |
n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等) | |
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28 valiant | |
adj.勇敢的,英勇的;n.勇士,勇敢的人 | |
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29 remains | |
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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30 vigour | |
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31 plunged | |
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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32 foaming | |
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33 vessel | |
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35 hoist | |
n.升高,起重机,推动;v.升起,升高,举起 | |
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36 hull | |
n.船身;(果、实等的)外壳;vt.去(谷物等)壳 | |
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n.拉,牵引,拖;一网(饮,吸,阵);顿服药量,通风;v.起草,设计 | |
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38 havoc | |
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱 | |
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39 peril | |
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40 sketch | |
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42 briny | |
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44 shipwreck | |
n.船舶失事,海难 | |
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45 wreck | |
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46 monstrous | |
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47 peculiar | |
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48 fascination | |
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49 isle | |
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掌掴(声)( smack的名词复数 ); 海洛因; (打的)一拳; 打巴掌 | |
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52 miraculously | |
ad.奇迹般地 | |
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53 invoking | |
v.援引( invoke的现在分词 );行使(权利等);祈求救助;恳求 | |
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54 bullying | |
v.恐吓,威逼( bully的现在分词 );豪;跋扈 | |
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55 nay | |
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56 steamship | |
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57 porpoises | |
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58 presages | |
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吞没( devour的第三人称单数 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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60 travail | |
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61 wilt | |
v.(使)植物凋谢或枯萎;(指人)疲倦,衰弱 | |
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62 rigid | |
adj.严格的,死板的;刚硬的,僵硬的 | |
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63 steering | |
n.操舵装置 | |
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64 corpse | |
n.尸体,死尸 | |
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65 appreciation | |
n.评价;欣赏;感谢;领会,理解;价格上涨 | |
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66 mightiest | |
adj.趾高气扬( mighty的最高级 );巨大的;强有力的;浩瀚的 | |
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