【双语有声阅读】如花的托斯卡纳(8)

There will be tufts of iris¹ everywhere, arising up proud and tender. When the rose-coloured wild gladiolus is mingled² in the corn, and love-in-the-mist opens blue: in May and June, before the corn is cut.

 

世界将变成一丛丛蝴蝶花的天下，它们得意而柔嫩地昂起头。五六月。谷物还没收割的时候。在野外，玫瑰色的唐菖蒲就会混合在谷物中。而黑种草开着蓝色的花朵。

 

But as yet is neither May nor June, but the end of April, the pause between spring and summer, the nightingale singing uninterrupted, the bean-flowers dying in the bean-fields, the bean-perfume passing with spring, the little birds hatching in the nests, the olives pruned³, and the vines, the last bit of late ploughing finished, and not much work to hand, now, not until the peas are ready to pick, in another two weeks or so.

 

但现在还没到五月或六月—只是四月末。春夏之间的间歇，在这个时节里：夜莺不停地歌唱；豆地里的豆花正在凋谢；豆的芳香正随着春天一起逝去；小鸟在巢里成长；橄榄已被修剪；葡萄已经过了最后的耕种时节；两个星期后豌豆成熟之前，没有多少活儿要做。

So the change, the endless and rapid change. In the sunny countries, the change seems more vivid, and more complete than in the grey countries. In the grey countries, there is a grey or dark permanency, over whose surface passes change ephemeral, leaving no real mark.

这样才是变化，永不停息的快速变化。在阳光照耀的地方，变化似乎更显著，比在昏暗地带更彻底。而在没有阳光的地方，是一成不变的灰暗和阴暗。变化只是短暂的事，不会留下任何记号。

1 iris   

n.虹膜，彩虹

参考例句：

• The opening of the iris is called the pupil.虹膜的开口处叫做瞳孔。
• This incredible human eye,complete with retina and iris,can be found in the Maldives.又是在马尔代夫，有这样一只难以置信的眼睛，连视网膜和虹膜都刻画齐全了。

2 mingled   

混合，混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 )； 混进，与…交往[联系]

参考例句：

• The sounds of laughter and singing mingled in the evening air. 笑声和歌声交织在夜空中。
• The man and the woman mingled as everyone started to relax. 当大家开始放松的时候，这一男一女就开始交往了。

3 pruned   

v.修剪（树木等）( prune的过去式和过去分词 )；精简某事物，除去某事物多余的部分

参考例句：

• Next year's budget will have to be drastically pruned. 下一年度的预算将大幅度削减。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The roses had been pruned back savagely. 玫瑰被狠狠地修剪了一番。 来自《简明英汉词典》