国家地理 一次翻越世界屋脊的历史性旅行(7)

The next afternoon plainclothes agents escorted us onto the first flight out of Pakistan. Later it all would be declared a mix-up. A confusion of paperwork. I would be allowed back into Pakistan within days to resume my disrupted global walk. But on the night we landed in exile in a steaming Arabian city -- I still wore my filthy¹ snow pants -- I felt numb². Standing³ dazed in the noisy airport immigration queue, I stared at the backs of my sun-blackened hands. And I recalled dusk atop Irshad Pass.

次日下午，便衣特工护送我们登上了首班离开巴基斯坦的航班。随后这一切全都被宣布为一次乱了套的文书工作错误，又允许我几天之内返回巴基斯坦继续我被中断的全球徒步。但那天晚上我以流放者的身份降落在一个热气腾腾的阿拉伯城市时，我仍然穿着那肮脏的雪裤，感觉很麻木。睡眼惺忪地站在机场嘈杂的入境检查处的队伍里，我凝视着自己被太阳晒黑的手背，回忆起了伊尔沙德山口顶上的黄昏。

A pale disk of sun had slipped beneath a chink in the storm clouds. For perhaps two minutes everything gleamed with electrum light. Silver-gold shafts⁴ sprayed the Karakoram, igniting the tops of the snow pyramids that stretched in serried⁵ ranks to the edges of the world. It was the sort of light that burned away the loss in my heart. It was light through which I could imagine walking, with all my people, into the promise of new country.

一轮炽白的太阳从暴风云里的条裂缝里露出来。大约两分钟后，所有的东西都闪烁着银金矿般的光，似乎点燃了雪白的金字塔顶端，它们一排排紧密排列，一直延伸到世界尽头。那是一道烧掉我心中的失落的光芒。我可以想像，有了这道光芒，我的行程中虽然会有各式各样的人，也将轻松进入允诺的新国家。

1 filthy   

adj.卑劣的；恶劣的，肮脏的

参考例句：

• The whole river has been fouled up with filthy waste from factories.整条河都被工厂的污秽废物污染了。
• You really should throw out that filthy old sofa and get a new one.你真的应该扔掉那张肮脏的旧沙发，然后再去买张新的。

2 numb   

adj.麻木的，失去感觉的；v.使麻木

参考例句：

• His fingers were numb with cold.他的手冻得发麻。
• Numb with cold,we urged the weary horses forward.我们冻得发僵，催着疲惫的马继续往前走。

3 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

4 shafts   

n.轴( shaft的名词复数 )；（箭、高尔夫球棒等的）杆；通风井；一阵（疼痛、害怕等）

参考例句：

• He deliberately jerked the shafts to rock him a bit. 他故意的上下颠动车把，摇这个老猴子几下。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
• Shafts were sunk, with tunnels dug laterally. 竖井已经打下，并且挖有横向矿道。 来自辞典例句

5 serried   

adj.拥挤的；密集的

参考例句：

• The fields were mostly patches laid on the serried landscape.between crevices and small streams.农田大部分是地缝和小溪之间的条状小块。
• On the shelf are serried rows of law books and law reports.书橱上是排得密密匝匝的几排法律书籍和判例汇编。