Classics Revisited · A2 · Part 18 Apr 2026

Hope as a Bird

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The text describes hope metaphorically as a bird that sings without words.

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noun 17adj 2verb 2adv 1

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Hope is a thing with feathers that perchesverb.栖息 in the soulnoun.灵魂 and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. And sweetest in the gale is heard, and sorenoun.疮 must be the storm that could have bashed the little bird that kept so many warm.

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sore

B1US/sɔr/EN/sɔː/

adj. 痛的；恼火的

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And sweetest in the gale is heard, and sore must be the storm that could have bashed the little bird that kept so many warm.

soul

B1US/səʊl/EN/səʊl/

noun. 灵魂，心灵

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Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

tune

A2US/tuːn/EN/tjuːn/

noun. 调子；和谐

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Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.