i have to read these lines again: 「and when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.」
我需要再读一遍这些句子:,“当他们列举出他们贫瘠而浮华的歌颂时“,亦显示出卑鄙无能的低劣之声
this last line that i「ve read seems itself to have been grated on a scrannel pipe.
我读到的最后一行,听起来似乎它本身被细弱的气管声所激怒了。
at least that」s what the oed tells us; the only example that they can find of the word scrannel is in milton's lycidas.
至少这是牛津英语字典告诉我们的;,他们找到的唯一一个例证,就是在里的这个。