双语美文之似水流年 （38）如花的托斯卡纳(6)
In the wood, the scrub-oak is only just coming uncrumpled, and the pines keep their hold on winter.
在森林里，矮灌木即将倒下，而松树在冬天里则稳稳地保持自己的站姿。
They are wintry things, stone-pined.
冬天是最适宜石松生长的季节。
At Christmas, their heavy green clouds are richly beautiful.
一到圣诞节的时候，石松团团的深绿色更显得婀娜多姿。
When the cypresses rise their tall and naked bodies of dark green, and the osiers are vivid red-orange, on the still blue air, and the land is lavender; then, in mid-winter, the landscape is most beautiful in colour, surging with colour.
当柏树显示出自己高高的、墨绿色的身躯时，柳树仍然在蓝色的空气中展现着自己活泼地鲜橙色。大地染上淡紫色的时候。隆冬时节就到了。这儿将成为颜色的世界，颜色才是最美的风景。
Not that this week is flowerless.
当然，这一个星期还会有花的足迹。
But the flowers are a little lonely things, here and there: the early purple orchid, ruddy and very much alive, you come across occasinally, then the little groups of bee-orchids, with their ragged concerted indifference to their appearance.
但这时候的花儿成了孤独地小东西，四处分散。你会在不经意间发现它们的足迹：提前出来的紫兰花，红润而有生命力；成群结对的蜜蜂兰，它们对自己的外表，都显露出刻意的、不屑的神情。
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！