【双语有声阅读】夏末的诗意

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The Poetry of Late Summer

 

夏末的诗意

One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of leaves.

七月间，人们有余暇观察树叶绿翠的千差万别。

It is no longer a difference in degrees of maturity,for all the trees have darkened to their final tone,and stand in their differences of character and not of mere¹ date.

这不再是成熟上的差异，因为所有的树木，或转苍翠，或呈墨绿，色调均已固着定格，从而展现出来的，并非时节上的不同，而是各自品格上的差异。

Almost all the green is grave, not sad and not dull.

几乎各种绿色，品味凝重，既不流于悒郁，也不失之沉闷，

It has a darkened and a daily color,in majestic² but not obvious harmony with dark grey skies,and might look, to inconstant eyes,as prosaic³ after spring as eleven o'clock looks after the dawn.

它具有一种深沉、日常的色泽，与灰暗的苍穹浑然一体，构成庄重却非一眼可见的和谐，故而在游览扫掠的目光看来，可能会有阳春繁景过后的平淡之感。一如黎明之后11点的光景。

Gravity is the world-not solemnity as towards evening,nor menace as at night.

凝重，乃是最贴切的字眼—不是时近黄昏的阴沉，亦非黑夜之中的森然。

The daylight trees of July are signs of common beauty, common freshness,and a mystery familiar and abiding⁴ as night and day.

七月白昼的葱郁树木，体现出普通的美，常见的清新，是一种如同黑夜白昼般惯常而又永恒不变的不解之谜。

In childhood we all have a more exalted⁵ sense of dawn and summer sunrise than we ever fully⁶ retain or quite recover;

童年时代，我们看到黎明和夏天日出盛景，会油然生出一股日后无法充分保留、也难以完全恢复的奋激狂喜；

and also a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings-a heartache for them,which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

同时，对四月和四月的日暮黄昏，还产生一种陶然忘情的欣赏共鸣—一种为之怦然心动的神驰向往，进入壮年之后，又无可挽回地逐渐淡化平息。

The poetry of mere day and of late summer becomes perceptive⁷ to mature eyes that have long ceased to be sated,have taken leave of weariness,and cannot now find anything in nature too familiar;

只有阅历丰富的慧眼，才能感受到白昼本身的夏末时令固有的诗意；这双慧眼已久未获满足矣，同时也摆脱了厌倦感，此刻发现在自然界，即使最常见的景物也另有一番情趣；

eyes which have, indeed,lost sight of the further awe⁸ of midsummer day break,and no longer see so much of the past in April twilight⁹ as they saw when they had no past;

诚然，面对仲夏红日的喷薄欲出，已不再萌发敬畏之情；凝望四月的苍茫暮色，也不会比一无阅历的童年，引发更多的联想，

but which look freshly at the dailiness of green summer,of early afternoon, of every sky of any form that comes to pass,and of the darkened elms.

然而，对司空见惯的日常景象—树木葱茏的盛夏，日过中天的午后，来而复去、变幻不定的每一片云天，还有幽暗的榆树—反倒会投以新的目光。

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