雅思(ielts)考试口语与听力拓展训练

Ithaka
　　As you set out for Ithaka
　　hope your journey is a long one,
　　full of adventure, full of discovery.
　　Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
　　angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:
　　you'll never find things like that on your way
　　as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
　　as long as a rare excitement
　　stirs your spiritand your body.
　　Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
　　wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
　　unless you bring them along inside your soul,
　　unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
　　Hope your journey is a long one.
　　May there be many summer mornings when,
　　with what pleasure, what joy,
　　you enter harborsyou're seeing for the first time;
　　may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
　　to buy fine things, 　　mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
　　sensual perfume of every kind-
　　as many sensual perfumes as you can;
　　and may you visit many Egyptian cities
　　to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
　　Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
　　Arriving there is what you're destinedfor.
　　But don't hurry the journey at all.
　　Better if it lasts for years,
　　so you're old by the time you reach the island,
　　wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
　　not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
　　Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
　　Without her you wouldn't have set out.
　　She has nothing left to give you now.
　　And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
　　Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
　　you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
　　Constantine P. Cavafy (1911)