美国语文第六册 第140期:洗礼(2)（在线收听）

The eye could at once command a long-stretching vista, seemingly closed and shut up at both extremities by the coalescing cliffs. 放眼望去，人们的视野马上就变得长而狭窄，看上去好像被合拢的悬崖给挡住了似的。

This majestic reach of river contained pools, streams, and waterfalls innumerable; 这条河雄伟的流域包括池塘、小溪和数不清的瀑布。

and when the water was low — which was now the case, in the common drought, 当水面较低时——现在就是这种情形，正值干旱季节，

it was easy to walk up this scene with the calm, blue sky overhead, an utter and sublime solitude. 这种景象触手可及，头顶高悬无风碧蓝的天空，遗世而立，令人流连忘返。

On looking up, the soul was bowed down by the feeling of that prodigious height of unscalable, and often overhanging, cliff. 向上仰望，人们被高达万仞的悬崖的威严给震慑住了。

Between the channel and the summit of the far extended precipices, were perpetually flying rooks and wood pigeons, and now and then a hawk, 在通道和向远处延伸的峭壁的顶端之间，是永远展翅腾飞的乌鸦和啄木鸟，不时会有一只鹰出现，

filling the profound abyss with their wild cawing, deep murmur, or shrilly shriek. 它们狂野的呱呱声、低沉的鸣叫或尖厉的长啸空谷回音。

Sometimes a heron would stand erect and still, on some little stone island, 有时，一只鹭会笔直地站在小石岛上，

or rise up like a white cloud along the black walls of the chasm, and disappear. 像一朵白云一样沿着巨石裂缝的黑壁巡飞，转瞬就不见了踪影。

Winged creatures alone could inhabit this region. 只有长翅膀的生灵才能在这个地方栖息。

The fox and wild cat chose more accessible haunts. 狐狸和野猫会选择更易于藏身的地方出没。