I love not only your strapping stature, but also your firm stand, the earth beneath you.

语音讲解

今日发音练习重点：
1. strapping /s/音不要拖音，不要发成“斯——”；
2. 弱读的单词要读的短、快、轻：your/but/your/the

言之有物
1. not only...but (also) 不但……而且……
就近原则
Not only she but also I am wrong.
不仅是她连我都错了。
2. strapping stature 伟岸的身躯
解释来自wiki：A strap, sometimes also called strop, is an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather.
strapping adj. 高大结实的，魁梧的
He was a bricklayer - a big, strapping fellow.
他是个泥瓦匠——一个魁梧梧的家伙。
stature 在直立状态下的自然身高
figure 指身体的高矮胖瘦 体形
具象——Mother was of very small stature, barely five feet tall.
母亲身材矮小，只有5英尺高。
抽象——Who can deny his stature as the world's greatest cellist?
谁能否认他是世界上最伟大的大提琴演奏家呢？
3. earth noun.
①地球
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
地球围绕太阳旋转。
② 地面、大地
They watched the kite fall back to earth.
他们看着风筝落回地面。
③泥土、土地
a lump of earth
一块地

致橡树
To the Oak Tree
作者：舒婷
Johanna Yueh 英文修改版

If I love you --
I will never be a clinging trumpet creeper
Using your high boughs
to show off my height

If I love you --
I will never be a spoony bird
Repeating a monotonous song
for green shade
Or be a spring
Bringing cool solace all year long
Or be a steep peak
Increasing your stature,
Reflecting your eminence
Even the sunlight
Even the spring rain
No, all these are not enough

I must be a ceiba tree beside you
Be the image of a tree
standing together with you
Our roots, entwined underground
Our leaves, touching in the clouds
With each gust of wind
We greet each other
But nobody
Can understand our words

You'll have your copper branches
and iron trunk
Like knives, like swords, like halberds, too
I'll have my crimson flowers
Like heavy sighs
And valiant torches
We'll share cold spells,
storms and thunder
We'll share mists, hazes and rainbows
Seemingly always apart
But also forever interdependent

Only this can be great love
The loyalty is here
Love --
I love not only your strapping stature
But also your firm stand,
the earth beneath you

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