EZCNN 易英网

Cheers for a Cloudy Day Cheers for a Cloudy Day 偷得浮「云」半日闲

課文朗讀

課文中英文講解

課文.pdf       繁體中文譯本

Unlike most people, Gavin Pretor-Pinney wants you to live with your head in the clouds. As the founder of the award-winning website http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/, he thinks that clouds are nature’s ___1___ and the world would be “___2___ poorer without them.”

不像大多数人，嘉文．普瑞特比奈希望你在过活时脑袋被白云围绕（喻：不切实际）。这位赏云协会网站的创办人认为，云彩是大自然的诗篇，这个世界「若少了它们，会变得非常贫乏。」

During our childhood, we often took the time to marvel at the ___3___. Some of us, as did the British poet William Wordsworth, continue to do this into our ___4___ years and pen glorious odes to the floating wonders. As we grow older, ___5___, many of us come to think of cloud-gazing as nothing more than idleness. But there is nothing to feel ashamed of claims the Cloud Appreciation Society.

孩童时代，我们常偷闲赞叹天空的美丽。其中一些人，像是英国诗人威廉．沃兹华斯，到了成年还持续这么做，并为这些飘浮的奇景写下美丽的诗歌。然而，当我们长大成人后，多数人会觉得赏云不过是游手好闲。不过，我们不用觉得丢脸，赏云协会如此说道。

The association’s manifesto states that “clouds are an expression of the atmosphere’s ___6___.” Judging from some of the photos posted in the website’s picture ___7___, the sky must have had plenty of “good mood” days! There are, ___8___, clouds that look like angels spreading their wings, and some that resemble glowing hearts.

该协会在宣言中声明：「云是大气的心情写照。」从网站照片集张贴的部份照片判断，天空很多天都有「好心情」呢！其中，有的云看起来像展翅的天使，有些则像发光的心！

Last year, in one month ___9___, over 7 million people visited the Society’s website. The phenomenal traffic attracted Yahoo’s attention. In its Finds of the Year 2005 Awards, Yahoo named it the best site in the “weird and wonderful” category. Weird and wonderful a site it ___10__ is, and, above all, it’s a site that will have you looking to the sky each day hoping you won’t see blue, but white.

去年，单单一个月里就有七百多万人点阅这个协会的网站。这样惊人的数量引起了雅虎网站的注意。在其2005年的发现奖项中，雅虎将它列为奇妙类网站的最佳代表。这个网站的确很奇妙，是一个鼓励你仰望天空、希望你观赏朵朵白云而不是晴朗蓝天的网站。

−By Robert Kelly

Vocabulary

idleness [ˋaɪd!nɪs] n. 懒散,闲散,无所事事

resemble [rɪˋzɛmb!] v. 像，类似

phenomenal [fəˋnɑmən!] adj. 非凡的; 惊人的

weird [wɪrd] adj.【口】奇特的；不可思议的

category [ˋkætə͵gorɪ] n. 种类

More Information

head in the clouds: 想入非非, 做白日梦 If a person has their head in the clouds, they have unrealistic, impractical ideas.

marvel [ˋmɑrv!] v. 感到惊讶；感到好奇[（+at）]

glorious [ˋglorɪəs] adj.【口】极其愉快的；极好的

ode [od] n. 颂歌

ashamed [əˋʃemd] adj. 羞愧的，感到难为情的

manifesto [͵mænəˋfɛsto] n. 宣言；告示

immeasurably [ɪˋmɛʒərəblɪ] adv. 不可测量地；广大无边地

Answer