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* * The World is Too Much With Us ——William Wordsworth Presenter:蒙卉薇 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the pub- lication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in colla- boration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. William Wordsworth was born on April 17, 1770 in Cocker mouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. The magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworths imagination and gave him a love of nature. He lost his mother when he was eight and five years later his father. In 1795 he met Coleridge. Encouraged by Coleridge and stimulated by the close contact With nature, Wordsworth composed his first masterwork, Lyrical Ballads. About 1798 he started to write a large and philosophical autobiographical poem, completed in 1805, and published posthumously in 1850 under the title The Prelude. Wordsworths second verse collection, Poems, In Two Volumes, appeared in 1807. Wordsworths central works were produced between 1797 and 1808. His poems written during middle and late years have not gained similar critical approval. Wordsworths Grasmere period ended in 1813. In later life Wordsworth abandoned his radical ideas and became a patriotic, conservative public man. In 1843 he succeeded as Englands poet laureate. The World is Too Much With Us The world is too much with us; 这世界对我们真够受的了；/ 这尘世拖累我们可真够厉害； late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: 早晚只营求和消耗，我们将精力荒废：/ 得失盈损，耗尽了毕生精力； Little we need in Nature that is ours; 我们在自然中很少能见到嘉惠；/ 对我们享有的自然界所知无几； We have given our hearts away ,a sordid boon! 白白把心神抛掷掉，鄙残的奋勉！/ 为了卑污的利禄，把心灵出卖！ This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; 海水的轻波仰对这月明呈裸袒；/ 这大海，她向明月袒露着胸怀； The wind that will be howling at all hours, 那渭风时时刻刻呼啸着向轰雷，/ 这天风，他只想昼夜呼号不息， And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, 如今却恬静得有如半展的花蕾；/ 如今却像熟睡的花朵般静寂； Fo