2009年3月10日 星期二

bard, the Bard, come coming May, orchid show, quatrain. The Tour de France







台湾南部・台南(Tainan)で開幕した「2009台湾国際蘭(らん)展(Taiwan International Orchid Show)」に出展されたらんの花(2009年3月7日撮影)。(c)AFP/Sam YEH
COME 有一特殊用法 據 Concise Oxford Dictionary " (in subjunctive 即 n. (the ~) 仮定[叙想]法(の動詞).) Colloq. whenaspecific time is reached"
日文辭典多收錄 如 ((仮定法)) …が来ると (She will be ten ~ May. 5月になると10になる);
"(假設語氣的現在式特別用法) 一到...就

發現原畫 Two Tufts of Epidendrum, (p.324, Fig. 185 此畫為波士頓私人收藏。)的文字是不同的:
多買蘭花要整根 根深土密自生孫
謾說(?)今歲花開好 更看來春花滿盆。

The quatrain may be translated approximately as follows:

Who buys orchids often, wants the roots complete.
From roots set deep in compact soil fresh roots will grow.
There is much idle talk this year that the flowers will do well.
And You will see, come spring, a pot full of flowers.


coming

(kŭm'ĭngpronunciationadj.
  1. Approaching; forthcoming; next: the coming season; a coming report on arms limitation.
  2. Showing promise of fame or success.
n.
Arrival; advent: the coming of spring.



The Tour de France was the one year journey that the trainees in carpentry, stonework, etc. should do, from city to city, before being graduated. It was instituted in the middle age and followed up to the XIXth century. (JM)

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Tour de FranceWorld's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July — usually in some 20 daylong stages — the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and mountainous country, mainly in France, with occasional and brief visits to Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each stage of the race is timed, and the rider with the lowest aggregate time for all stages is the winner. Established in 1903 by Henri Desgrange (b. 1865 — d. 1940), a French cyclist and journalist, the race has been run every year except during the world wars.



bard
noun [C]
1 LITERARY a poet

2 the Bard William Shakespeare


Original Bard portrait unveiled


William Shakespeare
The portrait is believed to have been painted in 1610

A portrait of William Shakespeare thought to be the only picture made of the playwright during his lifetime has been unveiled in London.
It is believed the artwork dates back to 1610, six years before Shakespeare's death at the age of 52.
The newly-authenticated picture was inherited by art restorer Alec Cobbe.
The portrait will go on show at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon from 23 April, the author's birthday.
The painting has been in the Cobbe family for centuries, through its maritial link to Shakespeare's only literary patron, Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton.
'Very fine painting'
Mr Cobbe realised the significance of the painting after visiting an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery where he saw a portrait that had until 70 years ago been accepted as a life portrait of Shakespeare.
He immediately realised that it was a copy of the painting in his family collection.
Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: "The identification of this portrait marks a major development in the history of Shakespearean portraiture. This new portrait is a very fine painting."
There has long been controversy over the accuracy of some of the portraits claimed as likenesses of Shakespeare.
Experts generally agree the most accurate depictions are a bust of the playwright originally put up in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon and an engraving made for the title page of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays.
Both are thought likely to be accurate as they were created or commissioned shortly after his death in 1616 by people who had actually met him.


梁永安

今天才知道,「莎翁」是前人對the Bard of Avon這個莎翁別號的譯法,如此便可知「莎翁」蛻變自「詩翁」
對於詩人的尊稱。宋˙蘇軾˙
金山寺與柳子玉飲大醉臥寶覺禪榻夜分方醒書其壁詩:「詩翁氣雄拔,禪老語清軟。」

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