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八月是多么令人惬意的季节啊！果园和麦田到处都充溢着忙碌劳作的声响；串串果实压得果树都弯下了腰，枝条低垂到地面；还有谷穗，有的一捆捆优雅地堆挤在一起，有的迎风招展，仿佛在向镰刀求爱，它们给周围的景致染上了一层金黄的色调；整个大地似乎笼罩在醇香柔和的气氛中


August (Excerpt)

by Charles Dickens

八月之美(节选)

查尔斯．狄更斯


Orchards and cornfields4) ring with the hum of labours; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit which bow their branches to the ground; and the corn5), piled in graceful sheaves, or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it, as if it wooed6) the sickle7), tinges8) the landscape with a golden hue9).

果园和麦田到处都充溢着忙碌劳作的声响；串串果实压得果树都弯下了腰，枝条低垂到地面；还有谷穗，有的一捆捆优雅地堆挤在一起，有的迎风招展，仿佛在向镰刀求爱，它们给周围的景致染上了一层金黄的色调；

A mellow softness appears to hang over the whole earth; the influence of the season seems to extend itself to the very wagon, whose slow motion across the well-reaped field, is perceptible10) only to the eye, but strikes with no harsh sound upon the ear.

整个大地似乎笼罩在醇香柔和的气氛中；这秋季的气氛似乎也影响了那些马车，只有眼睛可以察觉到它们穿过收割过的田野缓慢移动，但耳旁却寂静无声。

4) cornfield [5kR:nfi:ld] n. <英>小麦田，<美>玉米田

5) corn [kC:n] n. <英>谷物, <美>玉米,

6) woo [wu:] v. 求爱，招致

7) sickle [5sIkl] n. 镰刀

8) tinge [tIndV] n. 色调

9) hue [hju:] n. 色调, 颜色, 色彩

10) perceptible [pE5septEbl] adj. 可察觉的, 显而易见的, 感觉得到的