The relation between the speech sounds it's like the relation, as I'm saying, between the boy and the birches.

语言韵律和,就像这种关系，像我说的，像孩子和桦树的关系一样。

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So, think about the birches as a tool, another tool, but this time a tool for play, a tool for playing alone.

把桦树看成一种工具，另一种工具，但是这次是玩的工具，只是玩的工具。

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Let's illustrate these general points by just reading together and trying to hear the beginning of Robert Frost's poem "Birches," on page 211 in The Norton.

让我们解释这个笼统的观点通过一起读诗,尝试去听罗伯特·弗罗斯特的诗“桦树“,在211页，诺顿。

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I." "Birches." "Bend." "Left." "Right."

我，““桦树，““弯曲，““左边，““右边，“

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

比“荡桦树“更没有意思的事，可有的是。

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So was I once myself a swinger of birches.

当年，我自己也是“荡桦树“的能手。

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And so I dream of going back to be.

现在还梦想着再去荡一回桦树。

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Think, in "Birches," of really the extraordinary play of language, the freedom of association, all of which is being played off of the strict demands of the meter, at every moment.

想想，“桦树“，是无与伦比的对语言的把玩，自由的结合，所有这些都在格律诗严格的要求下自由地被使用着，每时每刻。

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