英语听书《白鲸记》第170期

 But here is an artist.  可是,这儿有一位画家,

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?

1 enchanting   

a.讨人喜欢的

参考例句：

• His smile, at once enchanting and melancholy, is just his father's. 他那种既迷人又有些忧郁的微笑，活脱儿象他父亲。
• Its interior was an enchanting place that both lured and frightened me. 它的里头是个吸引人的地方，我又向往又害怕。

2 hermit   

n.隐士，修道者；隐居

参考例句：

• He became a hermit after he was dismissed from office.他被解职后成了隐士。
• Chinese ancient landscape poetry was in natural connections with hermit culture.中国古代山水诗与隐士文化有着天然联系。

3 overlapping   

adj./n.交迭（的）

参考例句：

• There is no overlapping question between the two courses. 这两门课程之间不存在重叠的问题。
• A trimetrogon strip is composed of three rows of overlapping. 三镜头摄影航线为三排重迭的象片所组成。

4 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

5 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。