讀點好英文:A White Rose 一朵白薔薇

A White Rose 一朵白薔薇

Bing Xin

How come I stand alone by the river? The hazy sky is that dawn or dusk? Where can I inquire? I simply feel I am in an ocean of flowers, amid the flowers mixed a few white roses.

There she comes, she comes down from the hill. With a bunch of flowers in hands, she appears in a plain white dress with beautiful make up.

Come hither, give you a white rose, you may pin on the lapel, I say. She beams with a word, but I can not hear. However, I seem to no pick one, and she does not wear it, holding the flowers still, she walks forward.

Looking up the path she passed, I can see both sides of the path covered with blooming flowers, drooping flowers, and fallen flowers.

I suppose white flower is better than red flower all the time; yet why didn't I pick one, and she didn't wear one?

What's the place forward? Why not go with her?

It's over, the flowers disappear, and the dream awakes, what may be ahead? If I had picked one, had she been wearing it?

一朵白薔薇

冰心

怎么獨自站在河邊上？這朦朧的天色，是黎明還是黃昏？何處詢問，只覺得眼前竟是花的世界。中間雜著幾朵白薔薇。

她來了，她從山上下來了。靚妝著，仿佛是一身縞白，手里抱著一大束花。

我說，“你來，給你一朵白薔薇，好簪在襟上?！彼⑿φf了一句話，只是聽不見。然而似乎我竟沒有摘，她也沒有戴，依舊抱著花兒，向前走了。

抬頭望她去路，只見得兩旁開滿了花，垂?jié)M了花，落滿了花。

我想白花終比紅花好；然而為何我竟沒有摘，她也竟沒有戴？

前路是什么地方，為何不隨她走去？

都過去了，花也隱了，夢也醒了，前路如何？便摘也何曾戴？

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導讀

冰心（1900—1999），現(xiàn)代著名詩人、作家、翻譯家、兒童文學家。冰心散文的語言清麗、典雅。她善于提煉口語，使之成為文學語言，她能把古典文學中的辭章、詞匯吸收融化，注入到現(xiàn)代語言中去。

文中的“她”應該是夢想的化身。在作者迷惘、略顯憂傷之時，夢醒了，又回到了現(xiàn)實，夢境中的路還在嗎？真的會有人引領(lǐng)自己去追逐夢想嗎？這一切只能在現(xiàn)實中求證。

核心單詞

hazy [?heizi] adj. 模糊的，朦朧的

inquire [in?kwai?] v. 訊問；查問

lapel [l??pel] n. （西服上的）翻領(lǐng)

suppose [s??p?uz] v. 猜想，以為

awake [??weik] v. 喚醒，使醒過來

翻譯

The hazy sky is that dawn or dusk?

Looking up the path she passed, I can see both sides of the path covered with blooming flowers, drooping flowers, and fallen flowers.

It's over, the flowers disappear, and the dream awakes, what may be ahead? If I had picked one, had she been wearing it?