Coniston — Volume 01 — Page 2
当我描述辛西娅·韦尔出生的那片土地时，那些山丘仿佛腾空跃起，直抵天际，而那些古老的地名更是帮助我们勾勒出一幅生动的图景。
The hills seem to leap up against the sky as I describe that region where Cynthia Ware was born, and the very old country names help to summon up the picture.
科尼斯顿山，有人称之为蓝山，身披赫尔辛尼亚原始森林，南北绵延整整十英里，山中有一条山口小道，蜿蜒翻越马背般的山鞍。
Coniston Mountain, called by some the Blue Mountain, clad in Hercynian forests, ten good miles in length, north and south, with its notch road that winds over the saddle behind the withers of it.
科尼斯顿河从东坡百处泥土之下渗涌而出，汇聚成奔腾的溪流，劈开坚硬的花岗岩，向南绕过科尼斯顿山南端，在布兰普顿推动水磨运转之后，便悠然穿过西向的草地，沿着自己绿意盎然的山谷漫流，直至哈里奇，在那里再度发力，奔涌汇入一条大河。
Coniston Water, that oozes out from under the loam in a hundred places, on the eastern slope, gathers into a rushing stream to cleave the very granite, flows southward around the south end of Coniston Mountain, and having turned the mills at Brampton, idles through meadows westward in its own green valley until it comes to Harwich, where it works again and tumbles into a river.
布兰普顿与哈里奇相互竞争，但科尼斯顿河慷慨地将水力一视同仁地赐予两地。
Brampton and Harwich are rivals, but Coniston Water gives of its power impartially to each.
从科尼斯顿山西坡上零星的农场林间空地，你可以远眺某条宽阔大河的宽广河谷，那里曾经生长着（如今依然生长着）参天的巨松，它们曾作为土地的贡赋，为乔治国王的海军提供了无数桅杆。
From the little farm clearings on the western slope of Coniston Mountain you can sweep the broad valley of a certain broad river where grew (and grow still) the giant pines that gave many a mast to King George's navy as tribute for the land.
越过那条大河，美丽的告别山巍然耸立，色彩变幻无穷，时而蓝宝石，时而紫水晶，傍晚时分山脊镶嵌着藏红花般的火焰；而在告别山之外，西方群峰翠浪起伏，承接着低斜的余晖。
And beyond that river rises beautiful Farewell Mountain of many colors, now sapphire, now amethyst, its crest rimmed about at evening with saffron flame; and, beyond Farewell, the emerald billows of the western peaks catching the level light.
Vocabulary
- hills
- 山丘,小山
- seem
- 看起来,似乎
- leap
- 跳跃,跳起
- against
- 对抗,反对,靠着
- sky
- 天空,天际
- describe
- 描述,描写
- region
- 地区,区域,地带
- where
- 在哪里,其中
- born
- 出生
- old
- 旧的,老的,古老的
- country
- 国家,乡村,地区
- names
- 名字,名称
- help
- 帮助,援助
- summon
- 召唤,唤起
- picture
- 图片,画面,想象
- Mountain
- 山,高山
- called
- 称为,叫做
- some
- 一些,某些
- Blue
- 蓝色的
- clad
- 穿着,覆盖
- forests
- 森林,林地
- ten
- 十
- good
- 好的,良好的
- miles
- 英里(距离单位)
- length
- 长度,长
- north
- 北方,北
- south
- 南方,南
- notch
- 缺口,山口
- road
- 道路,路
- winds
- 弯曲,蜿蜒
- saddle
- 鞍,山鞍,鞍形部分
- behind
- 在...后面,背后
- withers
- 马肩隆,最高点
- Water
- 水
- oozes
- 渗出,缓慢流出
- under
- 在...下面
- loam
- 壤土,黑土
- hundred
- 百,一百
- places
- 地方,地点
- eastern
- 东方的,东边的
- slope
- 斜坡,山坡
- gathers
- 聚集,汇聚
- rushing
- 急流的,奔腾的
- stream
- 溪流,小河
- cleave
- 劈开,穿过
- granite
- 花岗岩
- flows
- 流动,流向
- southward
- 向南,南方
- around
- 围绕,大约
- end
- 末端,结束
- having
- 拥有,已有
- turned
- 转动,转向
- mills
- 磨坊,工厂
- idles
- 闲置,停滞
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