Crossing River Han

渡 汉 江

[唐] 宋之问（许渊冲译）

I longed for news on the frontier

From day to day, from year to year.

Now nearing home, timid I grow,

I dare not ask what I would know.

岭外音书断，

经冬复立春。

进乡情更怯，

不敢问来人。

[词汇] nearing

v. 接近 (地点)；快到 (某个阶段或时间)​

His age was hard to guess – he must have been nearing fifty.

他的年龄很难猜出来–他肯定快50岁了。