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 （1）Natural Environment

 

                                 New York As I See it

                                     纽约之我见

My first impressions of the skyscrapers in New York were a definite anticlimax. Like

the  pyramids  and  the  Sphinx  in  Egypt  they  are  over  publicized  and  take  fantastic

proportion in the minds of people who have seen them. My first impressions of both

are identical: !°Not bigger than that!!±But soon I was caught by the special fascination

of New  York, that  strange  city  with  its  Mediterranean  faces  and  its  cold,  efficient,

Nordic soul. In no other city do the human types more remind one of Naples, Tel Aviv

or  Cairo.  But  these Mediterranean    faces are  without  the  warm,   sensitive and

passionate  Mediterranean   soul.  The  predominantly  dark  faces  are, as it were,  a

disguise, for the soul behind them remind one of London and Berlin. The soul of New

York is cold and indifferent, and brutally efficient, like the soul of Northern Europe.

Cities like Rome or Paris or Vienna somehow seem to return one’s love but New York

does not. And  yet  it  seems to me, paradoxically,  eminently  lovable  and  sometimes

painfully beautiful, like a dazzling but aloof woman.

 

There  is no  other  city in the  world  where   one  can  feel more  delightfully and

absolutely alone in New York, for in no other city are people more indifferent toward

each  other.  In other great cities in the  world  there are  people  who  are at least

interested in  other people’s wallets, or  curious about  each  other  for various reasons.

Not  so in New York, where the inhabitants not  only ignore each  other, but  seem to

look through each other, which is still a step father in the gradations of indifference. If

somebody  ignores  you,  he  is  still  somehow  ware  of  you,  and  you  have  at  least  a

negative  importance.  But  if  he looks  straight through you,  as  though  you  were

invisible, you eventually begin to wonder if you really still cast a shadow.

 

 （from Selected Readings in English by Gunnar D. Kumlien ）

 

anticlimax            令人扫兴，兴趣骤降，虎头蛇尾

over publicize            过度宣传

proportion            比例，部分

identical             同一的，不变的，相似的

Mediterranean             地中海式的

Nordic                北欧日耳曼民族的

sensitive             敏感的

passionate            热情奔放的

predominantly             绝大多数地，普遍地

disguise              伪装，假装

indifferent           冷漠的，无动于衷的

brutally              残忍地，蛮横地

paradoxically              自相矛盾地，似是而非地

eminently                  出众地，超凡的

 

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dazzling            漂亮迷人的，令人眩惑的

aloof               冷淡的，清高的

absolutely          绝对地

inhabitant              居住者

gradation               等级，程序

 

Sphinx              狮身人面像

Naples              那不勒斯

Tel Aviv            特拉维夫

Cairo               开罗

Which is still a step  farther in the gradations of indifference.  就冷漠程度而论是更

进了一步。

 

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                                     Kirkwall

                                    柯克沃尔

 

Kirkwall  was  a  town  of  ineffable  delight. By  comparison  with  the  isolation  of  the

Island it was all bustle and excitement.

 

The  narrow  paved  streets  on  which  pedestrians,  horse  drawn  vehicles  and  cars  all

made their way together were lined with brightly lit shop windows. In the harbor great

ships lay at anchor bearing the names of faraway places like Aberdeen and even Leith;

and,  most exciting  of  all,  up at  the  far end  of  the  main street,  sheltered  by  the

buildings, there grew  a tree! A tree was something  so  exotic in  our  experience that

whenever we visited Kirkwall we could hardly wait to rush up the street to see if it

was  still  there.  It  would  not  have  surprised  us  if  a  panther  had  lurked  among  its

branches waiting to pounce  down  on  an  unwary  passer-by  or  if brightly  plumaged

parrots had hopped from twig to twig.

 

(From Against the Wind by Douglas Sutherland)

 

ineffable                无法表达的，不可言喻的

bustle               忙碌，熙熙攘攘

at anchor                抛锚泊定船只

exotic               奇异的，异乎寻常的

panther              豹

lurk                 潜伏，埋伏

pounce               猛扑，突然袭击

unwary               不注意的，不警惕的

plumage              长有…羽毛

hop                  齐足跳

 

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                               Piccadilly before Dawn

                              黎明前的皮卡迪利大街

 

Piccadilly before dawn. After the stir  and ceaseless traffic of the day, the silence of

Piccadilly early in the  morning,  in the small  hours, seems  barely credible.  It is

unnatural  and rather  ghostly. The  great  street  in  its  emptiness has  a  sort  of  solemn

broadness,  descending  in  a  majestic  sweep  with  the  assured  and  stately  ease  of  a

placid river. The are is pure and limpid, but resonant, so that a solitary cab suddenly

sends the whole  street ringing, and the heavy pace of the horse resounds with  long

reverberations. Impressive because of their regularity, the electric lights, self-assertive

and brazen, flood the surroundings with a strong and snowy brightness; with a kind of

indifferent violence they cast their light upon the huge silent houses, and lower down

throw into distinctness the long evenness of the park railings and the nearer trees. And

between,  outshone,  like  an  uneven  string  of  discolored  gems,  twinkles  the  yellow

flicker of the gas jets.

 

There is silence everywhere, but the houses are quiet and still with a different silence

form the rest, standing very white but for the black gaping of the many windows. In

their sleep, closed and bolted, they line the pavement, helplessly as it were, disordered

and undignified, having lost  all significance without the busy hum  of human voices

and the hurrying noise of persons passing in and out.

 

(Adapted for Piccadilly Bef ore Dawn by W. Somerset Maugham)

 

ceaseless            不停的，无休止的

ghostly          如同幽灵般的

majestic         雄伟的，壮丽的

sweep            范围，区域

stately          庄严的，雄伟的

placid           平静温和的

limpid           清澈透明的

resonant         回响的，共鸣的

resound          回响，充满声音

reverberation        回声

self-assertive        自作主张的

brazen           黄铜色的

gem              宝石

twinkle          闪烁，闪耀

flicker          忽隐忽现

gaping           洞开

bolted           上了闩的

undignified      不威严的，不庄重的

 

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                                     Lisbon, Portugal

                                      葡萄牙里斯本

The  cleanness  of  Lisbon  is dazzling. In  January, the  steep  stone  streets are washed

several  times   daily  by   sudden   tropical  showers,    and  Nature   is  assisted  by

street-cleaners  with  brooms  made  of  twigs.  The  Portuguese  have  a  green  thumb.

Lisbon, in winter, is brilliant with orange calendulas, blooming everywhere, together

with geraniums and succulents; oranges and lemons dangle form trees in the walled

gardens like bright Christmas balls, the orange matching the orange sails of the little

fishing boats on the blue Tagus. The seasons at this time of year are all awry. Autumn

is present in the calendulas and oranges; spring in the first wicker baskets of camellias

that come down form the nearby mountains to the florist shops; summer lingers in a

few  exhausted petunias; winter—last  January,  at  least—came  for  a  day  in  a  fall  of

snow, which brought the population, marveling, out into the streets to touch it. As the

new year  gets under way, everything is growing, all at  once; even the old tile roofs

have windfall  crops  of  grass  and  yellow  mustard, which, if you  look  down  from  a

window, over the rooftops to the Tagus, make the whole city seem fertile – a sort of

semitropical paradise that combines the exuberance of the south, with the huge palms

in the public squares, the oranges and the monumental statuary, and the neatness and

precision of the north, seen in the absence of dirt and litter, the perfectly kept public

gardens  and  belvederes,  the  black-and-white  mosaic  patterns  (ships  and  ropes  and

anchors)  of the  sidewalks,  and  the bright  tiles  of  so many  house  fronts, painted  in

green-and-white diamond or pink roses or solid Dutch blues and yellows.

 

Lisbon is a city built on hills, like San Francisco, and it is full of beautiful prospects,

of which  every advantage has been taken. It is designed, so to speak, for  a strolling

tourist,  at  sunset, to  ensconce himself  in  a belvedere  and  gaze  out  over  the  Tagus,

down to the pink-and-white dome of the Basilica of Estrela, or across a ravine of buff

and pink and gold building to the old fortress of Sao Jorge.

 

(from On the Contrary by Mary McCarthy)

 

calendula              金盏花

geranium               天竺葵花

succulent              肉质植物

dangle            悬垂

awry                   歪曲的，不对头的

wicker            柳条编制的

camellia           山茶花

florist           花商

petunia           矮牵牛花

windfall          被风吹落的

exuberance         繁茂，茂盛

statuary          雕像，塑像

 

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belvedere           观景台，了望台

mosaic          马赛克的

ensconce            隐蔽，置身于

ravine          沟壑，深谷

buff            暗黄色的，米色的

fortress        堡垒，要塞

 

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                           Oxford Street after Bombing

                                轰炸后的牛津街

 

Early September morning in Oxford Street. The smell of charred dust hangs on what

should be  crystal pure  air.  Sun, just  up,  floods the  once more  innocent  sky,  strikes

silver balloons and the intact building-tops. The whole length of Oxford Street, west

to east, is empty, looks polished like ballroom, glitters with smashed glass. Down the

distances,  natural  mists  of  morning  are  brown  with  the  last  of  smoke. Fumes  still

come from the shell of a shop. At this is now the enormous thing – it appears to amaze

the street. Sections and blocks have been roped off; there is no traffic; the men in the

helmets  say  not a  person may  pass  (but some sneak through).  Besides  the  high

explosives that did the work, this quarter has been  seeded with time bombs –  so we

are headed, waiting for those to go off. This is the top of Oxford Street, near where it

joins the corner of Hyde Park at Marble Arch.

 

We  people  have  come  up  out  of  the  ground,  or  out  from  the  bottom  floors  of  the

damaged houses: we now see what we heard happen throughout the night.

 

(from London,  1940 by Elizabeth Bowen)

 

charred             烧成炭的

crystal             如水晶般清澈的，透明的

intact              未受损的，完整的

polished            打磨过的，发光的

ballroom                舞厅

glitter              闪耀，发光

smashed             砸碎的

fume                烟雾

shell                   骨架，建筑处壳

gas main                煤气总管道

rope off            用强围起

helmet              头盔

explosive               炸药，爆炸物

quarter             住宅区，地区

time bomb           定时炸弹

herd                    聚集在一起，成群

 

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                                        Dusk

                                      黄昏小景

Norman  Cortsby  sat  on  a bench  in  the Park, with  his back  to  strip  of bush-planted

sward, fenced by the park carriage drive. Hyde Park Corner, with its rattle and hoot of

traffic, lay immediately to his right. It was some thirty minutes past  six  on  an  early

March evening, and dusk had fallen heavily over the scene, dusk mitigated by some

faint  moonlight  and many  street  lamps. There was a wide  emptiness over  road  and

sidewalk, and yet there were many unconsidered figures moving silently through the

half-light  or  dotted  unobtrusively  on  bench  and  chair,  scarcely  to  be  distinguished

from the shadowed gloom in which they sat.

The scene pleased Gortsby and harmonized with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind,

was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their

fallen  fortunes  and  dead  hopes  as  far  as possible  form  the  scrutiny  of  the  curious,

came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders

and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognized.

The  wanderers  in  the  dusk  did  not  choose  to  have  strange  looks  fasten  on  them,

therefore they  came   out  in this  bat-fashion, taking  their pleasure  sadly in  a

pleasure-ground  that  had  emptied  of  its  rightful  occupants.  Beyond  the  sheltering

screen of bushed and palings came a realm of brilliant light and noisy, rushing traffic.

A  blazing, many-tiered   stretch of windows   shone  through  the dusk  and  almost

dispersed it, marking the haunts of those other people, who held their  own  in  life’s

struggle, or at any rate had not had to admit failure. So Gortsby’s imagination pictured

things as he sat on his bench in the almost deserted walk.

 

 （Adapted from Dusk by Saki）

sward                 草地，草皮

rattle                吵闹，喧嚣声

hoot                      汽车喇叭声

mitigate              缓和，减轻

unobtrusively             不显眼地，不引人注目地

harmonize with        与。。。。。。一致，和谐

scrutiny              仔细查看

gloaming                  黄昏，薄暮

shabby                破旧的，褴褛的

bat-fashion           蝙蝠式昼伏夜出

occupant                  占有者，享用者

palings               栅栏，篱笆

blazing               灯火辉煌的

many-tiered           多层的

disperse              驱散的，使分流

 

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                                     A Dry World

                                       干旱之地

Pale, dry, baked earth, that blows into dust of fine sand. Low hills of baked pale earth,

sinking heavily, and speckled sparsely with dark dots of cedar bushes. A river on the

plain of drought, just a cleft of dark, reddish-brown water, almost a flood. And over

all, the blue, uneasy, alkaline sky.

 

A pale, uneven, parched world, where  a motor-car  rocks  and  lurches and  churns in

sand. A world pallid with dryness, in human with a faint taste of alkali. Like driving in

the bed of a great  sea that dried up unthinkable ages ago, and now is drier than any

other  dryness, yet  still reminiscent  of the bottom  of the  sea, sand hills sinking, and

straight, cracked mesas, like cracks in the dry-mud bottom of the sea.

 

So the mud church standing discreetly outside, just outside the pueblo, not to see too

much. And on its facade of mud, under the timbered mud-eaves, two speckled horses

rampant, painted by the Indians, a red piebald and black one.

 

Swish! Over the logs of the ditch-bridge, where brown water  is flowing  full. There

below   is  the  pueblo,  dried  mud like  mud-pie  houses, all squatting in  a  jumble,

prepared to crumble into dust and be invisible, dust to dust returning, earth to earth.

 

That they don’t  crumble is the mystery. That these little squarish mud-heaps endure

for  centuries  after centuries,  while  Greek  marble  tumbles  asunder,  and  cathedrals

totter, is the wonder. But then, the naked human hand with a bit of new  soft mud is

quicker than time, and defies the centuries.

 

Roughly the low, square, mud-pie houses make a wide street where all is naked earth

save a doorway or a window with a pale-blue sash. At the end of the street, turn again

into  a parallel wide, dry  street. And there, in  the  dry, oblong  aridity, there tosses  a

small forest that is alive: and thud—thud—thud goes the drum, and the deep sound of

men singing is like the deep soughing of the wind, in the depths of a wood.

 

(form Dance of the Sprouting Corn by D. H. Lawrence)

 

speckle           点缀，装点

cedar             雪松

cleft                 裂缝，裂口

alkaline          碱性的

parch             烘烤，烧焦

lurch             蹒跚，东倒西歪地向前

churn             剧烈抖晃，翻腾

pallid            苍白的，虚弱的

mesa              平顶山，方山

pueblo            印第安的村庄

 

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facade            门面，正面

rampant            （马等）用后腿立起的，跃立的

piebald           有花斑的马

squat             蹲伏

crumble           破碎，崩溃，倒塌

tumble            倒塌

asunder           分散，碎裂

totter            摇摇欲坠

sash              窗框格

 

Particular Scenes  特设场景

 

                                     Coming Home

                                          归航

The ship  first appeared as a small speck on the horizon. We had grown impatient at

the delay and cheered when we caught sight of it. For most of us this was a important

event, because the small object that had come into view was a troopship. Husbands,

fathers, brothers and  friends were coming home  after  an  absence of  four  years. We

were informed  over  the microphone that  the  ship  would be in  the harbour  in  about

three-quarters of an hour ’s time. We did not need telling and cheered more loudly that

ever.

 

The harbour had already witnessed such a colourful spectacle. It was decked out with

flags  and because the day was warm, we were  all wearing  gay  summer  frocks  and

looking out best  for the occasion. The time we waited  seemed endless; but  little by

little the speck took the form of a ship and , in a short time, it came so near that we

could make out its name: Candia, printed in large letters on the prow.

 

Now   the  crowd   of about  five  hundred  could  hardly  be  held  back.  People  were

jumping up and down, waving; and little boys climbed on to stationary vehicles to get

a better view. As the tugs piloted the great  ship  into the harbour, everybody peered

eagerly  at  the troops lined  along the railing.  Soldiers on board waved to us wildly,

shouting out the names of people they recognized or wanted to see. The two young

men in the crowd who were holding a big banner with ‘Welcome Home!’painted on it

almost fell over in their excitement to lift it higher. An old man put his hat on the end

of his walking-stick and twirled it round and round until it slipped off and fell into the

sea. Women were crying; others laughing; and  some did not  quite know whether to

laugh or cry. Someone called out  ‘There’s your daddy!’ and a small boy of four was

held high in the air to see his father whom he had never seen before. Now the troops

were  directly  above us. Our  excitement  had mounted to peak, for  soon  they would

disembark!

 

(from Coming Home)

 

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speck           小点，微点

troopship           部队运输船

witness         目睹，见证

spectacle           场面，景象

deck out        装饰，打扮

frock           服装，外衣

prow            船头

stationary          静止的，不动的

tug             拖船

pilot                （给船）领航

railing         栏杆，扶手

twirl               使快速旋转

disembark       下船，登陆

 

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                                  The Bonfire

                                   欢庆篝火

At one moment, the bomb site had been a dark, bare area with a few shadowy figures

lugging heavy objects, and then – as the match tickled up the paraffin, fire leapt out.

In a moment the whole place was a wild inferno of crackling flames, jumping squibs,

shooting rackets, bouncing bangers and whizzers. Dozens of demonic figures yelled

and leapt about, for in a few seconds the children had multiplied into hundreds.

 

Up, up, shot the flames, sending great sprays and showers of sparks into the night, all

the old chairs, full of worm, beetle, and dry horse hair, caught like tinder and made a

glowing core to the fire. Whizzers and bangers were now going off all over the place,

exploding like jumping jacks in the very middle of the crowd, and  starting yells of

dismay and small fights. Screaming girls ran away and were pursued. All the windows

in  the houses  around the bomb  site had  shot  up, and their  inhabitants were  yelling

protests and complaints, but not one of the children listened. Some of the adults saw

the  fun  of  the  fire,  but  the  duller  ones,  who  were  only  greedy  for  their  rights  as

citizens, rang up the police, the fire brigade, the Vicar or anyone else they fancied.

 

(from Magnolia Buildings by Elizabeth Stuckley)

 

bonfire     篝火，营火

shadow      朦胧的，模糊的

lug          （用力）拖拉

tickle up   点燃，使起火

paraffin    煤油

inferno     地狱，火海

crackle     劈啪作响

squib       爆竹

banger      奇响爆竹

whizzer      （点燃后发出厂嘶嘶声响的）爆竹

demonic     魔鬼般的

yell        叫喊，叫嚷

spray       如浪花般飞溅的火星

tinder      引为物，火种

dismay      惊愕，恐慌

inhabitant      居住者

protest     抗议，不满

 

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                                   Pleasure Spots

                                      极乐世界

His blue-prints pictured a space covering several acres, under a series of sliding roofs

– for the British weather is unreliable – and with a central space spread over with an

immense  dance  floor  made  of  translucent  plastic  which can  be  illuminated from

beneath. Around if are grouped other  functional  spaces, at  different  levels. Balcony

bars  and  restaurants  commanding  high  views  of  the  city  roofs,  and  ground-level

replicas. A battery  of  skittle alleys. Two blue lagoons: one, periodically  agitated by

waves, for strong swimmers, and another, a smooth and summery pool, for playtime

bathers.  Sunlight  lamps  over  the pools to  simulate high  summer  on  days when  the

roofs  don’t  slide back  to  disclose  a  hot  sun  in  a  cloudless  sky. Rows  of bunks  on

which  people  wearing  sun-glasses  and  slips  can  lie  and  start  a  tan  or deepen an

existing one under a sunray lamp.

 

Music seeping through hundreds of grills connected with a central distributing stage,

where  dance  or  symphonic  orchestras play  or  the  radio programme  can  be  caught,

amplified,  and  disseminated.  Outside,  two 100-car  parks.  One,  free.  The  other,  an

open-air  cinema  drive-in, cars queuing  to move  through   turnstiles, and the film

thrown  on  a giant  screen  facing a row  of assemble cars. Uniformed male attendants

check  the  cars, provide  free  aid  and  water,  sell  petrol  and  oil. Girls  in  white  satin

slacks take orders for buffer dishes and drinks, and bring them on trays.

 

(from Pleasure Sp ots by George Orwell)

 

blue-print            蓝图，构想

translucent      半透明的

illuminate       照亮，照明

replica          复制品，重复建筑

battery            （一）套，组

skittle alley    撞柱游戏球道

lagoon           环礁湖，咸水湖

periodically     定期地

agitate          鼓动，搅动

simulate         模拟，模仿

tan              曝晒皮肤使变棕褐色

seep                  渗出，渗漏 （文中指乐声悠扬）

grill            格栅

amplify          扩音

disseminate      散布，传播

drive-in         可以坐在车内观看的露天电影院

turnstile        旋转式栅门

satin                 光亮柔滑的，缎子的

 

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                                    At the Funfair

                                     游乐场感怀

On entering the funfair, we were greeted with laughter and music. Everywhere people

were traveling at high speeds; being lifted up into the sky and dropped; driving small

car  and  bumping  into  each  other;  shooting  at  targets; throwing  balls  at  bottles,  or

simply standing and staring.

 

We were not  quite  sure where to begin, but  on  seeing  a  stand marked  ‘ The  Ghost

Train’, we went  towards it  eagerly. When  we had bought  our  tickets and taken  our

seats we were immediately carried towards a closed door. For a dreadful moment we

thought we would crash into it but it  slid open and we were completely in the dark.

We  could  not  understand  why  so  many  people  were  screaming.  In  a  moment  we

realized why. A light went on in front of us and big gorilla grinned hideously at us.

The train went straight towards it and at the very last moment turned away: only just

in time! We barely had the chance to recover, when a skeleton appeared. It screamed,

extended a bony arm and made us scream as well. A little ahead a cackling witch was

lying in wait for us. The train went towards every monstrous creature that lurked in

the dark, always turning away just before it was too late.

 

We were relieved when a door opened and we found ourselves in the open air again.

But to our amazement that train did not stop. It reentered the haunted house! This time

we heard strange noises and louder screams that before. Invisible hands came out of

the dark and brushed through our hair or across our faces. Doors opened and closed

before our eyes and monsters reached out for us. We held on tightly and shut our eyes

when we  saw  yet  another  closed door  ahead. This time we were  sure we would hit

into it. All of a sudden and brought us back to a happier world of people, lights and

laughter.

 

(from At the Funf air)

 

bump              撞击，碰撞

slide                 滑行

scream            尖叫，惊叫

gorilla           大猩猩

grin              龇牙咧嘴地笑

hideously             可怕地，骇人地

skeleton          骷髅

bony              骨头突出的，瘦削的

cackle            咯咯地笑

witch             巫婆

monstrous         妖魔鬼怪般的

lurk              潜伏，躲藏

haunted           闹鬼的

 

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Seasons   四季

 

                                    Country Spring

                                      乡间春色

One spring I went a walking tour in the country. It was a glorious spring. Not the sort

of spring they give us in these miserable times, under this shameless government – a

mixture   of east  wind,  blizzard,  snow,  rain, slush,  fog, frost, hail, sleet  and

thunder-storms –  but  a  sunny,  blue-skied, joyous  spring,  such  as  we  used  to  have

regularly every year when I was a young man, and things were different.

 

It was  an  exceptionally  beautiful spring, even  for  those golden  days:  and  as  I

wandered through the waking land, and  saw the dawning of the coming green, and

watched the blush upon the hawthorn hedge, deepening each day beneath the kisses of

the sun, and looked up at the proud old mother trees, dandling their myriad baby buds

upon their strong fond arms, holding them high for the soft west wind to caress as he

passed  laughing by, and marked the primrose yellow  creep  across the carpet  of the

woods, and  saw  the new  flush  of the  field  and  saw  the new  light  on  the hills, and

heard  the  new-found  gladness  of  the  birds,  and  heard  form copse  and  farm and

meadow the timid callings of the little new-born things, wondering to find themselves

alive, and smelt the freshness of the earth, and felt the promise in the air, and felt  a

strong hand in the wind, my spirit rose within me. Spring had come to me also, and

stirred me with a strange new life, with a strange new hope. I, too, was part of nature,

and it was spring! Tender leaves and blossoms were unfolding from my heart. Bright

flowers of love and gratitude were opening round its roots. I felt new  strength in all

my  limbs. New  blood  was  pulsing  through  my  veins. Nobler  thoughts  and  nobler

longings were throbbing through my brain.

 

As I walked, Nature came and talked beside me, and showed me the world and myself,

and the ways of God seemed clearer.

 

(from Dreams by Jerome K. Jerome)

 

shameless         不知羞耻的

blizzard          暴风雪

slush             雪水，半融雪

hail              冰雹

sleet                 冻雨，雨夹雪

dawning           开始出现 （春意）

blush             红色，红光

hawthorn              山楂

hedge             树篱

dandle            娇养小孩

myriad            无数，大量

primrose              报春花

 

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creep           蔓延，开满

flush           活力，茂盛

copse           矮灌木丛

gratitude           谢意，感谢

vein            血管

throb           跳动，震动

 

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                                       Spring Walk

                                        春日漫步

 

I’ve walked to a hill mile from the house. It’s not really a hill but a mountain  slope

that heaves up, turns sideways, and comes down again, straight down to a foot-wide

creak. Every-thing  I  can  see  from  here used  to  be  a  flatland  covered with  shallow

water. !°Used to be!±means several hundred millions years ago, and the land itself was

not really  !°here!±at all, but part of a continent floating near Bermuda.   On the top is

fin of rock, a marine deposition created during Jurassic times by small waves moving

in and out slapping the shore.

 

I’ve come here for peace and quiet and to see what’s going on in this secluded valley,

away  from ranch work  and  sorting corrals, but  what  I get  is a  slap  on  the ass by  a

prehistoric wave, gains and losses in altitude and aridity, outcrops of mud composed

of rotting volcanic ash that fell continuously for ten thousand years a hundred million

years ago. The soils are a geologic flag – red, white, green, and gray. On one side of

the  hill, mountain  mahogany  gives  off  a  scent  like  orange  blossoms;  on  the  other,

colonies of sagebrush root wide in ground the color of Spanish roof tiles. And it still

looks like the ocean to me. !°How much truth can a man stand, sitting by the ocean, all

that perpetual motion,!±Mose Allison, the jazz singer, sings.

 

The wind picks up and blusters. Its fat underbelly scrapes the uneven ground, twisting

like taffy toward me, slips up  over the mountain, and  showers out  across the Great

Plains. The sea smell it carried all the way from Seattle has long since been absorbed

by  pink  grass  –  the rotting  granite  that spills down   the  slopes  of the  Rockies.

Somewhere over the Midwest the wind slows, tangling in the hair of hardwood forests,

and finally drops into the corridors of the cities, pas Manhattan’s World Trade Center,

ripping free again as it crosses the Atlantic’s green swell.

 

Spring jitterbugs inside me. Spring is wind, symphonic and billowing. A dark cloud

pops like a blood blister over me, letting hail down. It comes on a piece of wind that

seems to have widened the sky, comes so the birds have something to fly on.

 

(from Sp ring by Geetel Ehrlich)

 

heave         起伏，隆起

fin           鳍，鳍状物

deposition    沉淀，沉积

secluded      孤寂的，与世隔绝的

altitude      高度，海拔

mahogany      花梨木

sagebrush          北美艾灌丛

perpetual          永恒的，不变的

buster        呼啸狂欢

 

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underbelly  下腹部

scrape      刮擦，掠过，拂过

taffy           太妃糖

tangle      纠结，缠绕

jitterbug   使激动不安，紧张

billowing       翻腾的，汹涌的

blister     水疱

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