【双语有声阅读】如花的托斯卡纳(3)

It is so conspicuous¹ and so individual, that pink among the coming green of spring, because the first flowers that emerge from winter seem always white or yellow or purple.

 

绿意盎然地春天里。桃树的粉色是如此别致。因为最先从冬天开出来地花，通常看起来都是白色或黄色地或紫色的。

Now the celandines are out, and along the edges of the podere, the big, sturdy, black-purple anemones², with black hearts.

白屈菜也冒出头来了。在湖边高大强壮地银莲花中，你可以发现深紫色、黑色的花蕊。

The daisies are out too, in sheets, and they are too red-mouthed.

雏菊穿着红色的衣服成群地跑出来，开始的时候。

The first ones are big and handsome.

它们长得又大又漂亮。

But as March goes on, the dwindle³ to bright little things, like tiny buttons, clouds of them together.

可是渐渐地。进入三月中下旬，花就变成了光鲜的小东西。像小小的纽扣聚在一起。

That means summer is nearly here.

这预示着夏天的来临。

In some places there are odd yellow tulips, slender, spiky⁴ and Chinese-looking.

你还可以在一些地方，看到一些修长、带穗的黄色郁金香。

They are very lovely, pricking⁵ out their dulled yellow in slim spikes⁶.

在细长的穗上嵌着光亮的黄色，十分惹人喜爱。

But they too soon lean, expand beyond themselves, and are gone like an illusion.

不过，它们也很快变得倾斜，然后虚弱起来，仿佛幻觉一样消失得无影无踪。

And when the tulips are gone, there is a moment's pause, before summer.

郁金香离开以后，在夏天前，花儿们都短暂地歇息了一下。

Summer is the next move.

夏天即将到来。

1 conspicuous   

adj.明眼的，惹人注目的；炫耀的，摆阔气的

参考例句：

• It is conspicuous that smoking is harmful to health.很明显，抽烟对健康有害。
• Its colouring makes it highly conspicuous.它的色彩使它非常惹人注目。

2 anemones   

n.银莲花( anemone的名词复数 )；海葵

参考例句：

• With its powerful tentacles, it tries to prise the anemones off. 它想用强壮的触角截获海葵。 来自互联网
• Density, scale, thickness are still influencing the anemones shape. 密度、大小、厚度是受最原始的那股海葵的影响。 来自互联网

3 dwindle   

v.逐渐变小（或减少）

参考例句：

• The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.工厂雇员总数已经从4,000多人减少到几百人。
• He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。

4 spiky   

adj.长而尖的，大钉似的

参考例句：

• Your hairbrush is too spiky for me.你的发刷，我觉得太尖了。
• The spiky handwriting on the airmail envelope from London was obviously hers.发自伦敦的航空信封上的尖长字迹分明是她的。

5 pricking   

刺，刺痕，刺痛感

参考例句：

• She felt a pricking on her scalp. 她感到头皮上被扎了一下。
• Intercostal neuralgia causes paroxysmal burning pain or pricking pain. 肋间神经痛呈阵发性的灼痛或刺痛。

6 spikes   

n.穗( spike的名词复数 )；跑鞋；（防滑）鞋钉；尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 )；偷偷地给某人的饮料加入（更多）酒精（ 或药物）；把尖状物钉入；打乱某人的计划

参考例句：

• a row of iron spikes on a wall 墙头的一排尖铁
• There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping. 监狱墙头装有一排尖钉，以防犯人逃跑。 来自《简明英汉词典》