196题省中院壁

Written on the Wall of the Ministry Palace side-gate, bamboo hedge-screen, tung tree eighty feet tall, the inner gates face the rain-spouts, always deep in shade. Falling flowers and drifting floss, calm in the daylight, singing doves and baby sparrows deep in green spring. A hack scholar in his waning[1] years, mistakenly on the registers, lingers about on his way home for dinner, his heart’s aims gone awry[2]. To the dragon-robe office never once has one word been of help, in dedication I’m ashamed to compare with that pair of southern gold pieces. 单词释义 [1] waning [ˈweɪnɪŋ] v. 衰落; 衰败; 败落; [2] awry [əˈraɪ] adv. 出错; 出岔子; 歪; 斜;