WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer;
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When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
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When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
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When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
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How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
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Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,
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In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
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Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
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文句注釋
1.
astronomer
天文學家
2.
column
欄
3.
chart
圖表
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diagram
曲線圖
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measure
測量;e.g. The inch measures length.
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applause
鼓掌
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moist
潮溼的;
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lecture
演講