风景线

 　　Scenic¹ Route

　　风景线

　　For Lucy, who called them "ghost houses"

　　致称它们为“鬼屋”的露西

　　Someone was always leaving Scenic Route

　　and never coming back.

　　The wooden houses wait like old wives

　　along this road; they are everywhere,

　　abandoned, leaning, turning gray.

　　有人总是离开，

　　且不再回来。

　　一栋栋木屋像年老的妻子，

　　等候在这路边；它们随处可见，

　　被荒弃，倾斜，渐显灰朽。

　　Someone always traded

　　the lonely beauty

　　of hemlock² and stony³ lakeshore

　　for survival⁴, packed up his life

　　and drove off to the city.

　　In the yards, the apple trees

　　keep hanging on, but the fruit

　　grows smaller year by year.

　　有人总是为了生计

　　放弃铁杉和石砌的湖岸

　　那孤独的美，

　　打点好人生的行李包

　　驱车前往城市。

　　院子里的苹果树

　　一直都有结果，只是果子

　　一年比一年小。

　　When we come this way again,

　　the trees will have gone wild,

　　the houses collapsed⁵, not even worth

　　the human act of breaking in.

　　Fields will have taken over.

　　当我们再次踏上这条路，

　　树木早已疯长，

　　房子坍塌了，甚至不值得

　　人们破门而入。

　　田野会取而代之。

　　What we will recognize

　　is the wind, the same fierce wind,

　　which has no history.

　　我们将认出的

　　是风，同样狂野的风，

　　它没有过去。

 

1 scenic   

adj.自然景色的，景色优美的

参考例句：

• The scenic beauty of the place entranced the visitors.这里的美丽风光把游客们迷住了。
• The scenic spot is on northwestern outskirts of Beijing.这个风景区位于北京的西北远郊。

2 hemlock   

n.毒胡萝卜，铁杉

参考例句：

• He was condemned to drink a cup of hemlock.判处他喝一杯毒汁。
• Here is a beech by the side of a hemlock,with three pines at hand.这儿有株山毛榉和一株铁杉长在一起，旁边还有三株松树。

3 stony   

adj.石头的，多石头的，冷酷的，无情的

参考例句：

• The ground is too dry and stony.这块地太干，而且布满了石头。
• He listened to her story with a stony expression.他带着冷漠的表情听她讲经历。

4 survival   

n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者

参考例句：

• The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子，说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
• The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。

5 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。