Sighing at the Autumn Rain
II
Ruinous winds, rains that lay things low, in autumn come in gusts,
in the sea-girt world and eight wilds all lies under the same cloud-cover.
Horses and oxen coming and going I can no longer tell apart;
how is one to distinguish the muddy Jing and the clear Wei?
Fungus[1] grows on the tops of grains, the ears of the millet are black;
from farmers and field-workers there is no report.
Within the city a peck of rice is exchanged for fine bedding;
the bargain is struck and no one considers the relative cost of the two.
单词释义
[1] fungus [ˈfʌŋɡəs] n. 真菌(如蘑菇和霉); 霉; 霉菌;