【双语有声阅读】如花的托斯卡纳(2)

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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 tangles² the brier and bramble, down where the hellebore has stood so wan³ and dignified⁴ all winter, there are now white tufts of primroses⁵, suddenly come.

在其他一些朝太阳方向流动的溪流边，荆棘灌木交错。菟葵无助而不屈地对抗冬天。

Among the tangle¹ and near the water-lip, tufts and bunches of primroses, in abundance.

一丛丛白色地樱草花出乎意料地生长着。丛丛的樱草花占满了杂乱的灌木丛和溪水地拐角处。

Yet they look more wan, more pallid⁶, more flimsy than English primroses.

可它们比菟葵无助，更加苍白，比英格兰的樱草花单薄许多。

They lack some of the full wonder of the northern flowers.

樱草花不像北面的花朵那样让人惊奇。

One tends to overlook them, to turn to the great, solemn-faced purple violets that rear up from the bank, and above all, to the wonderful little towers of the grape-hyacinth.

 

人们往往会注意不到它，而是会被长在河岸边庄严而美丽地紫罗兰所吸引，会更愿意欣赏那些深紫色的风信子小花塔。

This is the time, in March, when the sloe is white and misty⁷ in the hedge-tangle by the stream, and on the slope land the peach tree stands pink and alone.

三月，刚好是溪边灌木乱丛中白色的野李花朦朦胧胧。粉红的桃树独自站立在山坡的时节。

The almond blossom, silvery pink, is passing, but the peach, deep-toned, bluey, not at all ethereal, this reveals itself like flesh, and the trees are like isolated⁸ individuals, the peach and the apricot.

银粉色的杏花已渐渐褪去颜色，桃树裹着深深的蓝，一点儿也不飘逸。却是本来面目。而桃树与杏树，看起来就像毫不相干地个体。

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