【双语有声阅读】晚夏(上)

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.

 

那年晚夏，我们住在乡村一幢房子里，望得见隔着河流和平原的那些高山。

In the bed of the river there were pebbles¹ and boulders²,

河床里有鹅卵石和大圆石头，

dry and white under the sun and the water is clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.

在阳光下又干又白，河水清澈，河流湍急，深处一泓蔚蓝。

Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered he leaves of the trees.

 

部队打从房子边走上大路，激起尘土，洒落在树叶上，连树干上也积满了尘埃。

The trunks of the trees too were dusty and theleaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze,

那年树叶早落，我们看着部队在路上开着走，尘土飞扬，

falling and the soldiers marching and afterward³ the road bare and white except for the leaves.

树叶给微风吹得往下纷纷掉坠，士兵们开过之后，路上白晃晃，空空荡荡，只剩下一片落叶。

The plain was rich with crops;

平原上有丰饶的庄稼；

there were many orchards⁴ of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare.

有许许多多的果树园，而平原外的山峦，则是一片光秃秃的褐色。

There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery⁵.

山峰间正在打仗，夜里我们看得见战炮的闪光。

1 pebbles   

[复数]鹅卵石； 沙砾； 卵石，小圆石( pebble的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet. 汽车道上的小石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。
• Line the pots with pebbles to ensure good drainage. 在罐子里铺一层鹅卵石，以确保排水良好。

2 boulders   

n.卵石( boulder的名词复数 )；巨砾；（受水或天气侵蚀而成的）巨石；漂砾

参考例句：

• Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm. 海面风平浪静，海豹在巨石上晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders. 河水急流而下，入一个漂砾的漩涡中。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。

4 orchards   

（通常指围起来的）果园( orchard的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They turned the hills into orchards and plains into granaries. 他们把山坡变成了果园，把平地变成了粮仓。
• Some of the new planted apple orchards have also begun to bear. 有些新开的苹果园也开始结苹果了。

5 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。