Painted Turtle
Gretchen Marquette
Summer road the ring around the lake, we drove mostly in silence.
Why aren't I your wife?
You swerved1 around a turtle sunning itself.
I wanted to go back. To hold the hot disc of it and place it in the grass.
We were late for dinner.
One twentieth of a mile an hour, I said. Claws in tar2. You turned the car around.
Traffic from the direction of the turtle, and you saw before I did, the fifty bones of
the carapace,
crushed roman dome3, the surprise of red blood.
I couldn't help crying, couldn't keep anything from harm.
I'm sorry, you said, and let it hurt.
The relief, always, of you in the seat beside me, you'll never know.
Driving that road next winter, you remembered that place in the road. Your turtle. <A hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/MiNifoRm.Html>蘇州中小學(xué)生作文培訓(xùn)班</a>
During hibernation4, a turtle's heart beats once for every ten minutes.
It cannot voluntarily open its eyes.
1 swerved
v.（使）改變方向，改變目的( swerve的過去式和過去分詞 )
參考例句：
She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist. 她猛地急轉(zhuǎn)彎，以躲開一個騎自行車的人。 The driver has swerved on a sudden to avoid a file of geese. 為了躲避一隊(duì)鵝，司機(jī)突然來個急轉(zhuǎn)彎。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2 tar
n.柏油，焦油；vt.涂或澆柏油/焦油于
參考例句：
The roof was covered with tar.屋頂涂抹了一層瀝青。 We use tar to make roads.我們用瀝青鋪路。 <a href=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>蘇州初中作文閱讀培訓(xùn)</a>
3 dome
n.圓屋頂，拱頂
參考例句：
The dome was supported by white marble columns.圓頂由白色大理石柱支撐著。 They formed the dome with the tree's branches.他們用樹枝搭成圓屋頂。
4 hibernation
n.冬眠
參考例句：
Bears wake up in the spring after a winter of hibernation.熊經(jīng)過一個冬天的冬眠后在春季蘇醒。 The tortoise spends the winter months in hibernation.烏龜在冬眠中度過寒冬季節(jié) 。
《Painted Turtle》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
