在船上,还有在晚餐后的篝火边,吉拉给我们背诵描写淘金热的文学作品——一首罗伯特.塞维斯的诗,或者杰克.伦敦的传奇,有关艰苦卓绝和荒诞不经的人生,以及在寒冷中死去。
On the boat, and at the campfire after dinner, Kyla recites from the literature of the gold rush - a poem by Robert Service or a tale by Jack London, accounts of hardship, folly and dying of cold.
虽然火灾、洪灾和旱灾常见于澳洲的民族传奇中,就像麦可仑·多萝西娅(Dorothea Mackellar)在1908年的一篇诗作中写道:“她的美丽和她的恐怖”,这首诗自此就被澳洲学童广泛引用。
Fires, floods and drought are part of Australia’s national legend: “her beauty and her terror”, as Dorothea Mackellar wrote in a 1908 poem recited by every Australian schoolchild ever since.
这是传奇故事的原型,狂热的赞美诗和狂想诗的原型。
This is the romaunt prototype, frantic hymn and fantasy poem prototype.
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