自由女神像的底座内有一块刻有诗文的铜板,上面的诗叫做“新巨人(The New Colossus)”是一首十四行诗,由美国诗人艾玛·拉撒路(1849 - 1887)写于1883年。诗的全文如下:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
不似希腊伟岸铜塑雕像
拥有征服疆域的臂膀
红霞落波之门你巍然屹立
高举灯盏喷薄光芒
您凝聚流光的名字 ——
放逐者之母
把广袤大地照亮
凝视中宽柔撒满长桥 海港
- 拓展学习:小词详解 | brazen
- 拓展学习:熟词僻义 | land 是落入什么样的境地?
- 拓展学习:小词详解 | exile
- 拓展学习:熟词僻义 | frame 是一种怎样的害人手段?
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
“扼守你们旷古虚华的土地与功勋吧!”她呼喊
颤栗着缄默双唇:
把你们的那些人给我吧,
那些穷苦的人,
那些疲惫的人,
那些蜷缩在一起渴望自由呼吸的人,
那些被你们富饶的彼岸抛弃的,
无家可归,颠簸流离的人,
把他们交给我,
我在这金门之侧,
举灯相迎
- 拓展学习:小词详解 | huddle
- 拓展学习:区别辨析yearn、long与thirst
- 拓展学习:小词详解 | teem