美国语文第六册 第86期:散文选篇(3)

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　　About the river of human life there is a wintry wind, though a heavenly sunshine; 在人类的生命长河里，始终存在一股凛冽的风，尽管苍穹阳光明媚。

　　the iris² colors its agitation³, the frost fixes upon its repose. 彩虹在摇动中变换着色彩，冰霜凝住了它的安宁。

　　Let us beware that our rest become not the rest of stones,  我们要明白，我们的休憩不会像石头那样一动不动，

　　which, so long as they are tempest-tossed and thunderstricken, maintain their majesty⁴; 只要它们能够忍受暴风雨的肆虐和雷电的鞭打，仍然不失其庄严。

　　but when the stream is silent and the storm passed, suffer the grass to cover them, and are plowed⁵ into the dust. 但是，当小溪静谧，风暴过后，草就会蔓延而至，覆盖在它们身上，耕犁所至皆为尘土。

　　Time and Change. By Sir Humphry Davy 时间和改变。汉弗莱·戴维

　　Time is almost a human word, and Change entirely⁶ a human idea; 有一个人类差不多天天挂在嘴边上的字眼，改变完全是人类的主观想法。

　　in the system of nature, we should rather say progress than change. 在自然界，我们说得更多的是进步，而不是改变。

　　The sun appears to sink in the ocean in darkness, but it rises in another hemisphere; 太阳似乎湮没于大海黑暗的尽端，但却升起于另一个半球。

　　the ruins of a city fall, but they are often used to form more magnificent structures: 一座城市尽成废墟，但是通常会形成更为壮观的建筑景象。

　　even when they are destroyed so as to produce only dust, Nature asserts her empire over them; 甚至当这些建筑被摧毁时，只不过化为尘土而已。大自然声称它的帝国必须覆盖在这些建筑之上，

　　and the vegetable world rises in constant youth, in a period of annual successions, by the labors⁷ of man — providing food, vitality⁸, and beauty 而年景交替之间，在人们辛勤劳作之下，绿色植物世界永远焕发生机——提供食物、生机和美景

　　upon the wrecks⁹ of monuments which were raised for the purposes of glory, but which are now applied¹⁰ to objects of utility. 在这些纪念物的残垣断壁上，为了荣耀的目的而茁壮成长，但是现在这些建筑物则被用于公益事业。

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