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英文诗歌欣赏 [关于蝴蝶的英文诗歌欣赏]
看了关于蝴蝶的英文诗歌后，我共享有关蝴蝶英语散文：
枯叶蝴蝶
Lappet Butterflies
徐迟
By Xu Chiits graceful flight, it turns into a dried leaf, not even of a withering yellow, but of a deathly grey.
它这样伪装，是为了爱护自己。但是它还是逃不脱被捕获的命运。不仅因为它的漂亮，更因为它那用来隐藏它的漂亮的枯搞与憔悴。
It disguises its shape and colours in order to protect itself, but nevertheless it cant help ending up in being captured, not only because of its beauty, but more because of the withered quality of its appearance that covers up its beauty.
它以为它这样做可以爱护自己，殊不知它这样做更教人去搜捕它。有一种生物比它还机灵，这种生物的绝技之一是装假作伪，因此装假作伪这种行径是瞒不过这种生物人的。
It is misled to believe that by so doing it can keep itself out of danger. On the contrary it makes itself more attractive, because there is another creature-man-that is cleverer than this butterfly. Ibis creature is extremely skilled in masquerading himself; no masquerading whatsoever can slide by under his nose.
人把它捕获，将它制成标本，作为一种商品去出售，价钱越来越高。最终几乎把它捕获得再也没有了。这一生物品种快要绝种了。
Man captures it, makes a specimen of it and sells it in the market at increasingly high prices. What happens as a result is that there is hardly any of the butterflies to be found-the species is dying out.
到这时候，国家才下令制止捕获枯叶蝶。但是，已经来不及了。国家的制止更增加了它的身价。枯叶蝶真是因此而要肯定的绝灭了。
The government has