剑桥大学建中式花园纪念徐志摩 Xu Zhimo memorial garden opens in Cambridge University

A marble memorial stone engraved with verses of Xu Zhimo's famous poem "A Second Farewell to Cambridge" is placed at the entrance of the Xu Zhimo memorial garden at King's College Cambridge in England, August 10. [Photo: Xinhua/Stephen Chung]

Chinese poet(诗人) Xu Zhimo's memorial garden(花园) opened at King's College Cambridge in England on Friday, during the fourth annual Cambridge Xu Zhimo Poetry and Art Festival. 

A woman walks across the Xu Zhimo memorial garden at King's College Cambridge in England, August 10. [Photo: Xinhua/Stephen Chung]

Dozens of poets from China and Britain gathered(聚集) in the garden, reading(朗读) their own works(作品) on the theme(主题) of Birds and Gardens.

Xu Shanzeng, the oldest grandson of Xu Zhimo, is invited to Cambridge to read his grandfather's best-known poem in the garden on August 10. [Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Dailei]

Xu Zhimo was a famous(著名) early 20th-century Chinese poet and writer(作家). In 1921, Xu studied(学习) at King's College Cambridge. His best-known poem, "A Second Farewell to Cambridge(《再别康桥》)," was written in 1928, after Xu's third visit to Cambridge. It is filled with longings for Cambridge, his love of England and its poetry. The poem is taught to millions of school- children across China. 

A view of King's College Cambridge, August 10, 2018. [Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Dailei]

90 years later, a Chinese garden named(命名) after Xu Zhimo's was designed(设计) and built(建造) at King's College Cambridge. It is the first Chinese garden built inside any college campus in Cambridge.  

词汇 Words:

[shī rén] 诗人 poet
[zuò jiā] 作家 writer
[zuò pǐn] 作品 works
[zhǔ tí] 主题 theme
[huā yuán] 花园 garden
[jù jí] 聚集 gather
[lǎng dú] 朗读 read
[xué xí] 学习 study
[mìng míng] 命名 name
[shè jì] 设计 design
[jiàn zào] 建造 build

重点词汇 Key word:

著名 <形容词 adj.> famous; well-known

• E.g. Mò Yán shì wèi zhùmíng de zuòjiā。
  莫言是位著名的作家。
  Mo Yan was renowned as a writer.

• Tǔlǔfān de pútáo hěn zhùmíng.
  吐鲁番的葡萄很著名。
  The grapes in Turpan are well-known.