The smell of wood, refreshingly sweet, greeted me even before I sat down at the round table. As if breathing along with the trees, I felt a simple,primitive(原始的,简单的)joy when admiring those furniture and home articles shaped and carved out ofcedar(雪松)in the heritage museum village of San Antonio, an old-time riverside town down south in the United States.
The craftsman, Arnold, came from a family of carpenters. As a Vietnam War veteran, he related to me, a visitor from Asia, how he had fought against the Vietcong guerrillas in the jungle.
His dearest memory, he said, was that of amedley(混合)of tropical smells of the rain forest, in which he had to move with theutmost(极度的)caution, trembling with fear that the lurking enemy would attack from anywhere, any moment. What calmed him down, he recalled, was thefragrance(香味)of wood as he, holding his rifle, was lying prone against the trunk of a large tree, sticking himself to the coarse bark.
After the war, Arnold started to live by working on wood, like his ancestors. Among his finest carpentry works was a rocking-chair, in which his daughter was now seated, reading. I picked out a tube-shaped pot with a lid. Chiselled out of a block, the objet d'art well preserved the material's colour in various shades, the clear annual rings, the original cracks and nodes -- what a reminder of themystique(奥秘)of life!
Lifting the lid, I savoured the fragrance of wood, feeling the natural power that had helped Arnold overcome his fear -- fragrance in war, which sounds like a poet's nonsense.
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA-2b)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionB 2a-4)ppt课件
新目标八年级上Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation 课件1
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 8《How do you make a banana milk shake》(SectionB 2b)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 8《How do you make a banana milk shake》(SectionB-2a-4)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(Pronunciation)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA-2a)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionB 3a-3c)ppt课件
新目标八年级上Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation 课件 5 (NX)
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionB 1)ppt课件
新目标八年级上Unit 4 How do you get to school 课件1
新目标八年级上Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation 课件3 (NX)
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA2d)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 8《How do you make a banana milk shake》(SectionB 1c)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA 2)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionB-2b)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 8《How do you make a banana milk shake》(SectionB3a-3c)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 8《How do you make a banana milk shake》(SectionB-1a-1e)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionB-1d)mp3课文音频
新目标八年级上Unit 4 How do you get to school 课件 9
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA 1)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 8《How do you make a banana milk shake》(words)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA2a-2c)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionB-1e)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionA-2d)mp3课文音频
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 8《How do you make a banana milk shake》(SectionB)ppt课件
人教版[2013版]英语八上Unit 9《Can you come to my party》(SectionB)mp3课文音频
新目标八年级上Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation 课件 7
新目标八年级上Unit 5 Can you come to my party 课件 2