双语美文之似水流年 （37）如花的托斯卡纳(5)
The cherry tree is something the same, but more sturdy.
樱桃树和白杨差不多，只是更加顽强。
Now, in the last week of April, the cherry blossom is still white, but waning and passing away:it is late this year, and the leaves are clustering thick and softly copper in their dark blood-filled glow.
现在都已是四月的最后一个星期，白色的樱桃花依然绽放，可已经渐渐虚弱，即将逝去。今年的时节晚了，树叶团团紧簇，鲜红的光亮中挥洒着轻柔的铜色。
It is queer about fruit trees in this district.
这个地方的果树十分不同寻常。
The pear and the peach were out together.
梨花和桃花会在同一时节开放。
But now the pear tree is a lovely thick softness of new and glossy green, vivid with a tender fullness of apple-green leaves, gleaming among all the green of the landscape, the half-high wheat, emerald, and the grey olive, half-invisible, the browning green of the dark cypress, the black of the evergreen oak, the rolling of the heavy green puffs of the stone-pines, the flimsy green of small peach and almond trees, the sturdy young green of horse-chestnut.
不过，现在这里有还未伸长的麦子、翠绿色的橄榄、柏树所没有地棕绿、常青橡树的黑色、石松浓重的绿团团、小桃树和杏树脆弱的绿色、七叶树强壮的新绿。而在这所有的绿色中，梨树清新光亮的绿色是可爱地、浓密的、轻柔地。像苹果绿色叶子柔和的饱满一样鲜明。
So many greens, all in flakes and shelves and tilted tables and round shoulders and plumes and shaggles and uprisen bushes, of greens and greens, sometimes blindingly brilliant at evening, when the landscape looks as if it were on fire from inside, with greenness and with gold.
在这绿色的海洋中，绿色一片一片的，一层一层的，像斜斜的一块板，像圆圆的肩膀，又像羽毛，像矮树丛。像挺直地灌木。有时在夜晚，从外面向绿色里望去。仿佛绿色带着绿色，带着金色在里面燃烧，显得光彩夺目。
D·H·劳伦斯
劳伦斯（1885—1930），英国诗人、小说家、散文家。 出生于矿工家庭。当过屠户、会计、雇员和小学教师，曾在国内外漂泊十多年，对现实抱批判否定态度。他写过诗，但主要写长篇小说，共有10部，最著名地为《虹》（1915）《爱恋中的女人》（1921）和《查泰莱夫人的情人》（1928）。《虹》通过自耕农布兰文地三代家史，描写了19世纪中叶以来大工业吞食小农经济的过程。猛烈抨击了金钱地罪恶和帝国主义战争。
1.hastily 匆忙地，仓促地
But, the person concedes, the deal was a hastily arranged marriage.
但此人承认，这笔交易是仓促而就。
Hastily I pressed send, though forgot to press save first.
我匆匆忙忙地按下发送键，却忘了先要保存文档。
2.ecstasy 狂喜；出神，忘形
This is what relief and ecstasy look like.
这才叫真正的解脱和狂喜。
It is a sort of calm but painfully blocked ecstasy.
那是一种安然但痛苦受阻的狂喜。
3.illusion 错觉；幻想；错误观念
But he preferred to maintain the illusion.
不过他更喜欢维持这种幻觉。
But the scene is actually an optical illusion.
但这一场景实际上是一种错觉。
4.utterly 全然，完全地；彻底地
These models view the economy in an utterly simplistic way.
这些模型用一种完全简单化的方式看待经济。
Such a feat is utterly unthinkable!
这样的壮举是绝对难以想象的！