The oars were silver,/Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the/Water which they beat to follow faster/As amorous of their strokes. ……银色的船桨,随着笛声拍节在水中摇划,击起了层层水波,痴情地紧追不舍。
The story that he tells here chiefly is the amorous feelings of America. 这里他所讲的故事主要是美洲的风情。
amorous
[ adj ]
inclined toward or displaying love
<adj.all> feeling amorous
expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
<adj.all> her amatory affairs amorous glances a romantic adventure a romantic moonlight ride
Amorous \Am"o*rous\, a. [OF. amoros, F. amoreux, LL. amorosus, fr. L. amor love, fr. amare to love.] 1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.
2. Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on.
Thy roses amorous of the moon. --Keats.
High nature amorous of the good. --Tennyson.
Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. --Shak.
3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love. ``Amorous delight.'' --Milton. ``Amorous airs.'' --Waller.
Italians are amorous cowards, Germans are ludicrous prigs, the French can speak English only with the most absurd accent, and the English as represented by the officer class are brainless.
One fanciful tabloid has even engineered a kiss and tell on the cheap, hiring a medium to transmit the amorous confessions of a sultry, though deceased, British actress.
No doubt, Houghton Mifflin has also been pleased by the generally amorous reaction to the book of stories it has just published by Mr. Canin, "Emperor of the Air" (181 pages, $15.95).
But Jack Flynn said, "The secretary has ordered reviews of these offices across the country for that kind of thing." Leave it to the amorous French.
But the summit may prove less than amorous, with the Africans demanding more debt relief while France lectures them on democracy.
"Chiropractic made her much more amorous," Dr. Willoughby says.
The young man claimed he and his girlfriend were engaged in amorous activity in their small car when the large car hit it from behind.
The poster with the naked legs and the double-entendre message for first-time voters is just one of a series of posters featuring amorous couples in the youth-oriented campaign.
Patrols don't roust amorous young couples out of park bushes here as they do in neighboring Malaysia, where government-sanctioned Islamic zealotry is part of its goal of lifting Moslem ethnic Malays to the economic level of ethnic Chinese.
Sent to prison as a first offender, an English graduate was told by an old lag there that if he made amorous advances to the governor's wife, she'd get him released quickly. 'But I can't do that,' he protested.
"Chocolate does have amorous value," said George Higgins, a pastry chef instructor at the 8,000-student Johnson & Wales University in Providence, one of the biggest cooking schools in the world.
Rhoden asked jurors to disregard defense claims that Christian and Hudson did not have sex, reminding them that a witness had described seeing the two men in an amorous nude embrace at Hudson's home after a party.
Even the $50 catalog, studded with snippets of the couple's amorous baby talk, was a bonanza, selling more than 20,000 copies.