英语听书《白鲸记》第170期

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He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting¹ bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.  他想为你画一幅在萨科。流域算是最陶醉,最幽静,最迷人的田园风景,

What is the chief element he employs?  他将采用什么主题呢?

There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit² and a crucifix were within;  那边立着他的树,株株树身都是空的,仿佛那里头有个隐士和个耶稣受难像;

and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke.  这儿睡着他的草地,那儿睡着他的牛;那边的小屋升起睡意的炊烟。

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping³ spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.  一条迷津似的小径,弯弯曲曲地伸入远处的林野,向着那山坡青翠。

But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed⁴ upon the magic stream before him.  重重叠叠的岗峦迤逦而去。可是,尽管这个画面是这样的恍如梦境,尽管这株松树把它的声声太息象落叶似的撒在牧羊人的头上,然而,除非那牧羊人的眼睛注视着他面前那道富有魔力的溪流,否则,这一切就都是白费的。

Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade⁵ knee-deep among Tiger-lilies-what is the one charm wanting? 你去看一看六月里的大草原吧,当你一步步地跨过好几十英里深没膝踝的卷丹草丛时...这儿缺少哪种具有诱惑力的东西呢?

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