not only at night does the nightingale sing. on almost every warm day in early june, the little brown bird sings away in the roads and woods, but, as all the other birds are also singing at the same time, we do not notice his voice so much. it is at night, when he has the field all to himself, that we hear the nightingale at his best.

　　【词语解释】

　　①haymaking [＇hei?meikir] n．制备干草

　　②hedge [hedn] n．（矮树的）树篱

　　③nightingale [＇naitirgeil] n．夜莺

　　【写作指要】

　　1）本文作者抓住“绿的世界”和“歌的昼夜”从视觉描写到听觉描写给读者描绘了一幅生机勃勃的夏日农村的美景。

　　2）第二段里“green”一词的多次重复使“绿的世界”深深留在人们的心里。在第三、四、五段里，作者把“歌声”这一概念用不同的词表达出来，如“sing”,“song”,“sounds”,“cry”,“pouring out”,“singing”,“voice”等，如此同义照应，使语义上下连贯，同时也加强和突出了“夜莺歌唱”的主题。

　　3）本文作者使用了拟人（personification）手法，文章显得格外生动：

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