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整整一天，我们似乎在一片充满各种美景的土地上悠闲地穿行。

All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind.

有时我们看到陡峭山顶上的小镇或城堡，就像我们在古老手抄本中见到的那样；

Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals;

有时我们沿着河流和溪流行进，从两岸宽阔的石滩来看，这些河流似乎经常遭受洪水侵袭。

sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods.

要冲刷干净河流的外缘，需要大量的水，而且水流要湍急。

It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.

在每个车站都有成群的人，有时是人群，穿着各式各样的服装。

At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts of attire.

他们中的一些人和家乡的农民或我途经法国和德国时见到的人很相像，穿着短夹克、圆帽和自制的裤子；

Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers;

但另一些人则非常具有异域风情。

but others were very picturesque.

那些女人看起来很漂亮，但走近一看就不那么好看了，而且她们的腰部显得非常笨拙。

The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist.

她们都穿着某种样式的白色宽袖衬衫，大多数人还系着宽腰带，腰带上垂着许多条状装饰物，随风飘动，就像芭蕾舞裙一样，当然里面还穿着衬裙。

They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them.

我们见到的最奇特的人是斯洛伐克人，他们比其他人更显得粗犷原始，戴着大大的牛仔帽，穿着宽大邋遢的脏白色裤子、白色亚麻衬衫，还系着极宽的厚重皮带，将近一英尺宽，上面密密麻麻地镶嵌着铜钉。

The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails.