Stars on a Snowy Night 雨雪时候的星辰 The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. 寒暑表降到冰点下十八度的时候，我们也是在廊下睡觉。 In the evening, the most familiar sight t
Quadrupeds are confined to their coverts and the birds sit upon their perches this peaceful hour. 四足动物都躲藏起来了，小鸟在这平和的时刻里也休息了， There is not so much sound as in fair weather, but silently and gradually e
Of course, we are speaking of tea as drunk by connoisseurs and not as generally served among shopkeepers. 我们所描写的当然是指鉴赏家的饮茶，而不是像店辅中的以茶奉客。 No such nicety can be expected of general mankind or when tea i
The wind has gently murmured through the blinds, or puffed with feathery softness against the windows,and occasionally sighed like a summer zephyr lifting the leaves along, the livelong night. 微风缓缓地吹着
I should look deep into the canvases of Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Rembrandt. 我要仔细端详拉斐尔、达芬奇、提香和瑞姆布兰特的油画。 I should want to feast my eyes upon the warm colors of Veronese, study the mysteries o
There will be tufts of iris everywhere, arising up proud and tender. When the rose-coloured wild gladiolus is mingled in the corn, and love-in-the-mist opens blue: in May and June, before the corn is
There is a solid bottom everywhere. 所有地方的底部都是结实的。 We read that the traveler asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. 我们从书中得知这样一个故亊，一个旅行者问一个男孩，前方的这块沼泽底部是不是坚固。 The boy replied that it ha
And then you see what happens. 现在，你知道出了什么事… Ah! it has been the great misfortune of our Alsace always to postpone its lessons until to-morrow. 唉！我们阿尔萨斯人的最大不幸就是把教育拖延到明天。 Now those people are entitled t
The enjoyment of these things, like the enjoyment of the moon, the snow and the flowers, must take place in proper company, for this I regard as the thing that the Chinese artists of life most frequen
And now that it is March, there is a rush of flowers. 现在正是三月，也是花儿竞相开放的时节。 Down by the other stream, which turns sideways to the sun, and tangles the brier and bramble, down where the hellebore has sto
Hence as a Chinese writer expresses it:For enjoying flowers, one must secure big-hearted friends.For going to a sing-song houses to have a look at sing-song girls, one must secure temperate friends. F
However mean your life is, meet it and live it. 不管你的生活如何卑微，你都要正视它，生活下去。 do not shirk it and call it hard names is not so bad as you are. 不要逃避，也不要恶语相加。你的生活不像你自己想象的那么糟糕。 It looks poorest when you are ri
Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. 如同大智慧者不会因穷尽自然的和谐底蕴而失去对她的好奇之心。 Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. 自然之于智慧的心灵绝非玩具。 The fl
This feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralyzing, 拥有这神心情，不仅宽厚地減轻了那种使人容易感到心有余而力不足的责任感， and it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seri
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. 那年晚夏，我们住在乡村一幢房子里，望得见隔着河流和平原的那些高山。 In the bed of the river there were pebbl
It is more than two years since I saw my father last time and what I can never forget is the sight of his back. 我与父亲不相见已二年余了我最不能忘记的是他的背影。 In the winter of more than two years ago Grandma died and fath
But in the sunny countries, change is the reality and permanence is artificial and a condition of imprisonment. Hence, to the northerner, the phenomenal world is essentially tragical, because it is te
To begin with the Youthful type of character. 我们首先来讨论一下年轻人的性格特征。 Young men have strong passions, and tend to gratify1 them indiscriminately. 年轻人有炽热的激情，而且想不管不顾地逐个满足。 They are changeable and fickle in t
Also there are the huge bud-spikes of the stout, thick-flowering pink orchid, huge buds like fat ears of wheat, hard-purple and splendid. 当然。也少不了顶着巨大的花苞穗，长满茂密花儿的强壮粉红兰花，兰花那巨大的花苞穗如同饱满地麦穗一样，配上耀眼地紫色，让人觉得完
North of the Alps, the everlasting winter is interrupted by summers that struggle and soon yield; south of the Alps, the everlasting summer is interrupted by spasmodic and spiteful winters that never
