【双语有声阅读】如花的托斯卡纳(7)

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Also there are the huge bud-spikes¹ of the stout², thick-flowering pink orchid³, huge buds like fat ears of wheat, hard-purple and splendid.

 

当然。也少不了顶着巨大的花苞穗，长满茂密花儿的强壮粉红兰花，兰花那巨大的花苞穗如同饱满地麦穗一样，配上耀眼地紫色，让人觉得完美无缺。

But already odd grains of the wheat-ear are open, and out of the purple hangs the delicate pink rag of floweret.

但零星的麦穗已经开花了，在紫色中旋着一幅由娇嫩小花编织成花布。

Also there are very lovely and choice cream-cloured orchids⁴ with brown spots on the long and delicate lip.

还有那些非常可爱的、米色的兰花。在它们的细长花蕊上有些棕色斑点。

These grow in the more moist places, and have exotic tender spikes, very rare-seeming.

兰花喜欢在较潮湿的地方生长，因此它奇异柔和的穗是不常见的。

Another orchid is a little, pretty yellow one.

其他的兰花都是小小的花形，漂亮的黄色。

By May, the nightingale will sing an unbroken song, and the discreet⁵, barely audible Tuscan cuckoo will be a little more audible.

五月一到，夜莺便不间断地唱着一首歌。这时候，小心翼翼的托斯卡纳杜鹃也会唱出平日里听不到的歌。

Then the lovely pale-lilac irises⁶ will come out in all their showering abundance of tender, proud, spiky⁷ bloom, till the air gleam with mauve, and a new crystalline lightness will be everywhere.

接着，浅淡紫色的丁香花大量地出现，展示着它们柔嫩、穗状的花，直到空气中露出紫红，清澈透明的轻柔四处飘荡。

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