英语名篇诵读 秋日夕阳（在线收听）

Autumn Sunset

秋日夕阳

We had a remarkable sunset one day last November. I was walking in a meadow, the source

of a small brook, when the sun at last, just before setting, after a cold grey day, reached a clear

stratum in the horizon, and the softest brightest morning sun-light fell on the dry grass and on

the stems of the trees in the opposite horizon, and on the leaves of the shrub-oaks on the hill-

side, while our shadows stretched long over the meadow eastward, as if we were the only motes in

its beams. It was such a light as we could not have imagined a moment before, and the air also was

so warm and serene that nothing was wanting to make a paradise of that meadow. When we

reflected that this was not a solitary phenomenon, never to happen again, but that it would

happen forever and ever an infinite number of evenings, and cheer and reassure the latest child that

walked there, it was more glorious still.

The sun sets on some retired meadow, where no house is visible, with all the glory and

splendor that it lavishes on cities, and perchance , as it has never set before，  — where there

is but a solitary marsh-hawk to have his wings gilded by it, or only a musquash looks out from

his cabin, and there is some little black-veined brook in the midst of the marsh, just beginning

to meander, winding slowly round a decaying stump . We walked in so pure and bright a light,

gilding the withered grass and leaves, so softly and serenely bright — I thought I had never bathed

in such a golden flood, without a ripple or a murmur to it. The west side of every wood and rising

ground gleamed like the boundary of Elysium , and the sun on our backs seemed like a gentle

herdsman, driving us home at evening.

So we saunter toward the Holy Land; till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than

ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives

with a great awakening light, so warm and serene and golden as on a bank-side in autumn.

去年十一月某日，我们看到了一幅非常壮观的落日景象。我当时正漫步在小溪源头的

一片草地上，正值一个阴晦的寒日结束之际，暮夕之前，太阳最终涌出云层，露出澄明天

光。但见远处天幕下的衰草残茎，山边的橡树丛，都沉浸在一片最柔美也最耀眼的曙光般

的绮照之中。我们自己的影子落在草地上，向东拖得长长的，仿佛我们是夕阳光束中仅有

的尘埃。这是刚才我们想象不到的夕阳之光，空气又是那么和暖纯净，这草地实在无异于

天上的仙境。我们想，这里的夕阳不是大自然绝无仅有的现象，不是永远不再发生的，而

是无数的傍晚永远会出现的现象；这里的落日夕照会使得任何前来散步的孩子快乐欢畅，

心安神定，想到这里，便觉得这夕照更加壮美了。

夕阳带着在城市上空恣意挥洒的灿烂光辉，照在一片绝无人迹、房舍幽僻的草地上，

也许以前从没有像今天这样绚丽多姿——那里，只有一只沼鹰，翅膀上镀上了夕阳的光

芒；要么只有一只麝香鼠，从它的巢里探头张望；在沼泽中央，还有一条黑丝般的小溪，

刚刚流出草地，绕着一个朽烂的树墩迂回流淌着。我们漫步在纯净明亮的落日余晖中，它

是那样的柔和恬静。满目衰草枯叶，一片金黄——我想，自己从来没有沐浴在这般金色的

洪流中，不见涟漪，也听不到潺潺水声。抬首西望，一排林薮丘岗，金灿熠耀，宛若仙境

边陲，而我们背后的夕阳，仿佛一位慈爱的牧人，值薄暮时分，赶着送我们归去。

我们漫步于去天国的历程中也应当是这样；直到有一天，太阳会以它从来没有过的辉

煌照耀，照射进我们的心扉灵府中，使我们的整个生命沐浴着更彻悟的神奇光照——和

煦、恬静、熠耀，恰如在一个秋日的溪流岸边那样。