summer

1.Read the article carefully
2.Tell me your favorite season and why.(please try to use the words in the article to describe your favorite season)
 
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Summer

 

I chanced to rise very early one particular morning this summer, and took

a walk into the country to divert myself among the fields and meadows,

while the green was new, and the flowers in their bloom. As at this season

of the year every lane is a beautiful walk, and every hedge full of

nosegays, I lost myself, with a great deal of pleasure, among several

thickets and bushes that were filled with a great variety of birds, and an

agreeable confusion of notes, which formed the pleasantest scene in the

world to one who had passed a whole winter in noise and smoke. The

freshness of the dews that lay upon everything about me, with the cool

breath of the morning, which inspired the birds with so many delightful

instincts, created in me the same kind of animal pleasure, and made my

heart overflow with such secret emotions of joy and satisfaction as are not

to be described or accounted for. 　

—Joseph Addison, Tulips 　

英语晨读精华

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[注释]：

divert : to entertain by distracting the attention from worrisome thoughts or cares; amuse 消遣，

通过把注意力从烦恼之事上转移开而娱乐　

meadow : 草地　

hedge : 树篱　

nosegay : 花束　

thicket : 灌木丛　

animal pleasure： 快感　

instinct : 本能　

overflow : to have a boundless supply and to be filled beyond capacity 溢出，充满　

　

Joseph Addison 艾迪生·J. (1672—l 719)，英国随笔作家和诗人。生于威尔特郡，曾就读于

牛津大学。曾任贸易和殖民地事务专员，1717 年被任命为国务大臣。同年他还创办《旁观

者》杂志。本文选自他的《郁金香》