SH17翻译: 瓦尔登湖 (梭罗) 1 of 2

Translation: The翻译 Ponds (Walden Pond) (Henry David Thoreau)

(assembled by: alexcwlin; reviewed by: Adam Lam)

有时，对人类社会及其言谈扯淡，登湖对所有村中的梭罗友人们又都厌倦了，我便向西而漫游，翻译越过了惯常起居的登湖那些地方，跑到这乡镇的梭罗更无人迹的区域，来到“新的翻译森林和新的牧场”上；或当夕阳西沉时，到美港山上，登湖大嚼其越橘和浆果，梭罗再把它们拣拾起来，翻译以备几天内的登湖食用。

Sometimes,梭罗 having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village friends, I rambled still farther westward than I habitually dwell, into yet more unfrequented parts of the town, "to fresh woods and pastures new," or, while the sun was setting, made my supper of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair Haven Hill, and laid up a store for several days.

水果可是不肯把它的色、香、翻译味给购买它的登湖人去享受的，也不肯给予为了出卖它而栽培它的梭罗商人去享受的。

The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them, nor to him who raises them for the market.

要享受那种色、香、味只有一个办法，然而很少人采用这个办法。

There is but one way to obtain it, yet few take that way.

如果你要知道越橘的色、香、味，你得请问牧童和鹧鸪。

If you would know the flavor of huckleberries, ask the cowboy or the partridge.

从来不采越橘的人，以为已经尝全了它的色、香、味，这是一个庸俗的谬见。

It is a vulgar error to suppose that you have tasted huckleberries who never plucked them.

从来没有一只越橘到过波士顿，它们虽然在波士顿的三座山上长满了，却没有进过城。

A huckleberry never reaches Boston; they have not been known there since they grew on her three hills.

水果的美味和它那本质的部分，在装上了车子运往市场去的时候，跟它的鲜丽一起给磨损了，它变成了仅仅是食品。

The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart, and they become mere provender.

只要永恒的正义还在统治宇宙，没有一只纯真的越橘能够从城外的山上运到城里来的。

As long as Eternal justice reigns, not one innocent huckleberry can be transported thither from the country's hills.

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在我干完了一天的锄地工作之后，偶尔我来到一个不耐烦的侣伴跟前，他从早晨起就在湖上钓鱼了，静静的，一动不动的，像一只鸭子，或一张漂浮的落叶，沉思着他的各种各样的哲学，而在我来到的时候，大致他已自认为是属于修道院僧中的古老派别了。

Occasionally, after my hoeing was done for the day, I joined some impatient companion who had been fishing on the pond since morning, as silent and motionless as a duck or a floating leaf, and, after practising various kinds of philosophy, had concluded commonly, by the time I arrived, that he belonged to the ancient sect of Coenobites.

有一个老年人，是个好渔夫，尤精于各种木工，他很高兴把我的屋子看作是为便利渔民而建筑的屋子，他坐在我的屋门口整理钓丝，我也同样高兴。

There was one older man, an excellent fisher and skilled in all kinds of woodcraft, who was pleased to look upon my house as a building erected for the convenience of fishermen; and I was equally pleased when he sat in my doorway to arrange his lines.

我们偶尔一起泛舟湖上，他在船的这一头，我在船的另一头；我们并没有交换了多少话，因为他近年来耳朵聋了，偶尔他哼起一首圣诗来，这和我的哲学异常地和谐。

Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with my philosophy.

我们的神交实在全部都是和谐的，回想起来真是美妙，比我们的谈话要有意思得多，

Our intercourse was thus altogether one of unbroken harmony, far more pleasing to remember than if it had been carried on by speech.

我常是这样的，当找不到人谈话了，就用桨敲打我的船舷，寻求回声，使周围的森林被激起了一圈圈扩展着的声浪，像动物园中那管理群兽的人激动了兽群那样，每一个山林和青翠的峡谷最后都发出了咆哮之声。

When, as was commonly the case, I had none to commune with, I used to raise the echoes by striking with a paddle on the side of my boat, filling the surrounding woods with circling and dilating sound, stirring them up as the keeper of a menagerie his wild beasts, until I elicited a growl from every wooded vale and hillside.

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在温和的黄昏中，我常坐在船里弄笛，看到鲈鱼游泳在我的四周，好似我的笛音迷住了它们一样，而月光旅行在肋骨似的水波上，那上面还零乱地散布着破碎的森林。

In warm evenings I frequently sat in the boat playing the flute, and saw the perch, which I seem to have charmed, hovering around me, and the moon travelling over the ribbed bottom, which was strewed with the wrecks of the forest.

很早以前，我一次次探险似的来到这个湖上，在一些夏天的黑夜里，跟一个同伴一起来；在水边生了一堆火，吸引鱼群，我们又在钧丝钩上放了虫子作鱼饵钓起了一条条鳘鱼；这样我们一直搞到夜深以后，才把火棒高高地抛掷到空中，它们像流星烟火一样，从空中落进湖里发出一些响亮的咝声，便熄灭了，于是我们就突然在完全的黑暗之中摸索。

Formerly I had come to this pond adventurously, from time to time, in dark summer nights, with a companion, and, making a fire close to the water's edge, which we thought attracted the fishes, we caught pouts with a bunch of worms strung on a thread, and when we had done, far in the night, threw the burning brands high into the air like skyrockets, which, coming down into the pond, were quenched with a loud hissing, and we were suddenly groping in total darkness.

我用口哨吹着歌，穿过黑暗，又上路口到人类的集名处。

Through this, whistling a tune, we took our way to the haunts of men again.

可是现在我已经在湖岸上有了自己的家。

But now I had made my home by the shore.

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有时，在村中一个客厅里待到他们一家子都要休息时，我就回到了森林里；那时，多少是为了明天的伙食，我把子夜的时辰消耗在月光之下的垂钓之上，坐在一条船里，听枭鸟和狐狸唱它们的小夜曲，时时我还听到附近的不知名的鸟雀发出尖厉的啸声。

Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, I have returned to the woods, and, partly with a view to the next day's dinner, spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to time, the creaking note of some unknown bird close at hand.

这一些经验对我是很值得国忆和很宝贵的，在水深四十英尺的地方抛了锚，离岸约二三杆之远，有时大约有几千条小鲈鱼和银鱼围绕着我，它们的尾巴给月光下的水面点出了无数的水涡；用了一根细长的麻绳，我和生活在四十英尺深的水底的一些神秘的夜间的鱼打交道了，有时我拖着长六十英尺的钓丝，听凭柔和的夜风把我的船儿在湖上漂荡，我时不时地感到了微弱的震动，说明有一个生命在钓丝的那一端徘徊，却又愚蠢地不能确定它对这盲目撞上的东西怎样办，还没有完全下决心呢。

These experiences were very memorable and valuable to me- anchored in forty feet of water, and twenty or thirty rods from the shore, surrounded sometimes by thousands of small perch and shiners, dimpling the surface with their tails in the moonlight, and communicating by a long flaxen line with mysterious nocturnal fishes which had their dwelling forty feet below, or sometimes dragging sixty feet of line about the pond as I drifted in the gentle night breeze, now and then feeling a slight vibration along it, indicative of some life prowling about its extremity, of dull uncertain blundering purpose there, and slow to make up its mind.

到后来，你一手又一手，慢慢地拉起钓丝，而一些长角的鳘鱼一边发出咯吱咯吱的声音，一边扭动着身子，给拉到了空中。

At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air.

特别在黑暗的夜间，当你的思想驰骋在广大宇宙的主题上的时候，而你却感到这微弱的震动，打断了你的梦想，又把你和大自然联结了起来，这是很奇怪的。

It was very queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again.

我仿佛会接着把钓丝往上甩，甩到天空里去，正如我同时把钓丝垂人这密度未必更大的水的元素中去的情况一样。

It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air, as well as downward into this element, which was scarcely more dense.

这样我像是用一只钓钩而捉住了两条鱼。

Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.

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瓦尔登的风景是卑微的，虽然很美，却并不是宏伟的，不常去游玩的人，不住在它岸边的人未必能被它吸引住：但是这一个湖以深邃和清澈著称，值得给予突出的描写。

The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale, and, though very beautiful, does not approach to grandeur, nor can it much concern one who has not long frequented it or lived by its shore; yet this pond is so remarkable for its depth and purity as to merit a particular description.

这是一个明亮的深绿色的湖，半英里长，圆周约一英里又四分之三，面积约六十一英亩半；它是松树和橡树林中央的岁月悠久的老湖，除了雨和蒸发之外，还没有别的来龙去脉可寻。

It is a clear and deep green well, half a mile long and a mile and three quarters in circumference, and contains about sixty-one and a half acres; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods, without any visible inlet or outlet except by the clouds and evaporation.

四周的山峰突然地从水上升起，到四十至八十英尺的高度，但在东南面高到一百英尺，而东边更高到一百五十英尺，其距离湖岸，不过四分之一英里及三分之一英里。

The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and a third of a mile.

山上全部都是森林。

They are exclusively woodland.

所有我们康科德地方的水波，至少有两种颜色，一种是站在远处望见的，另一种，更接近本来的颜色，是站在近处看见的。

All our Concord waters have two colors at least; one when viewed at a distance, and another, more proper, close at hand.

第一种更多地靠的是光，根据天色变化。

The first depends more on the light, and follows the sky.

在天气好的夏季里，从稍远的地方望去，它呈现了蔚蓝颜色，特别在水波荡漾的时候，但从很远的地方望去，却是一片深蓝。

In clear weather, in summer, they appear blue at a little distance, especially if agitated, and at a great distance all appear alike.

在风暴的天气下，有时它呈现出深石板色。

In stormy weather they are sometimes of a dark slate-color.

海水的颜色则不然，据说它这天是蓝色的，另一天却又是绿色了，尽管天气连些微的可感知的变化也没有。

The sea, however, is said to be blue one day and green another without any perceptible change in the atmosphere.

我们这里的水系中，我看到当白雪覆盖这一片风景时，水和冰几乎都是草绿色的。

I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost as green as grass.

有人认为，蓝色“乃是纯洁的水的颜色，无论那是流动的水，或凝结的水”。

Some consider blue "to be the color of pure water, whether liquid or solid."

可是，直接从一条船上俯看近处湖水，它又有着非常之不同的色彩。

But, looking directly down into our waters from a boat, they are seen to be of very different colors.

甚至从同一个观察点，看瓦尔登是这会儿蓝，那忽儿绿。

Walden is blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view.

置身于天地之间，它分担了这两者的色素。

Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both.

从山顶上看，它反映天空的颜色，可是走近了看，在你能看到近岸的细砂的地方，水色先是黄澄澄的，然后是淡绿色的了，然后逐渐地加深起来，直到水波一律地呈现了全湖一致的深绿色。

Viewed from a hilltop it reflects the color of the sky; but near at hand it is of a yellowish tint next the shore where you can see the sand, then a light green, which gradually deepens to a uniform dark green in the body of the pond.

却在有些时候的光线下，便是从一个山顶望去，靠近湖岸的水色也是碧绿得异常生动的。有人说，这是绿原的反映；可是在铁路轨道这儿的黄沙地带的衬托下，也同样是碧绿的，而且，在春天，树叶还没有长大，这也许是太空中的蔚蓝，调和了黄沙以后形成的一个单纯的效果。

In some lights, viewed even from a hilltop, it is of a vivid green next the shore. Some have referred this to the reflection of the verdure; but it is equally green there against the railroad sandbank, and in the spring, before the leaves are expanded, and it may be simply the result of the prevailing blue mixed with the yellow of the sand.

这是它的虹色彩圈的色素。

Such is the color of its iris.

也是在这一个地方，春天一来，冰块给水底反射上来的太阳的热量，也给土地中传播的太阳的热量溶解了，这里首先溶解成一条狭窄的运河的样子，而中间还是冻冰。

This is that portion, also, where in the spring, the ice being warmed by the heat of the sun reflected from the bottom, and also transmitted through the earth, melts first and forms a narrow canal about the still frozen middle.

在晴朗的气候中，像我们其余的水波，激湍地流动时，波平面是在九十度的直角度里反映了天空的，或者因为太光亮了，从较远处望去，它比天空更蓝些；而在这种时候，泛舟湖上，四处眺望倒影，我发现了一种无可比拟、不能描述的淡蓝色，像浸水的或变色的丝绸，还像青锋宝剑，比之天空还更接近天蓝色，它和那波光的另一面原来的深绿色轮番地闪现，那深绿色与之相比便似乎很混浊了。

Like the rest of our waters, when much agitated, in clear weather, so that the surface of the waves may reflect the sky at the right angle, or because there is more light mixed with it, it appears at a little distance of a darker blue than the sky itself; and at such a time, being on its surface, and looking with divided vision, so as to see the reflection, I have discerned a matchless and indescribable light blue, such as watered or changeable silks and sword blades suggest, more cerulean than the sky itself, alternating with the original dark green on the opposite sides of the waves, which last appeared but muddy in comparison.

这是一个玻璃似的带绿色的蓝色，照我所能记忆的，它仿佛是冬天里，日落以前，西方乌云中露出的一角晴天。

It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.

可是你举起一玻璃杯水，放在空中看，它却毫无颜色，如同装了同样数量的一杯空气一样。

Yet a single glass of its water held up to the light is as colorless as an equal quantity of air.

众所周知，一大块厚玻璃板便呈现了微绿的颜色，据制造玻璃的人说，那是“体积”的关系，同样的玻璃，少了就不会有颜色了。

It is well known that a large plate of glass will have a green tint, owing, as the makers say, to its "body," but a small piece of the same will be colorless.

瓦尔登湖应该有多少的水量才能泛出这样的绿色呢，我从来都无法证明。

How large a body of Walden water would be required to reflect a green tint I have never proved.

一个直接朝下望着我们的水色的人所见到的是黑的，或深棕色的，一个到河水中游泳的人，河水像所有的湖一样，会给他染上一种黄颜色；但是这个湖水却是这样地纯洁，游泳者会白得像大理石一样，而更奇怪的是，在这水中四肢给放大了，并且给扭曲了，形态非常夸张，值得让米开朗琪罗来作一番研究。

The water of our river is black or a very dark brown to one looking directly down on it, and, like that of most ponds, imparts to the body of one bathing in it a yellowish tinge; but this water is of such crystalline purity that the body of the bather appears of an alabaster whiteness, still more unnatural, which, as the limbs are magnified and distorted withal, produces a monstrous effect, making fit studies for a Michael Angelo.

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水是这样的透明，二十五至三十英尺下面的水底都可以很清楚地看到。

The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet.

赤脚踏水时，你看到在水面下许多英尺的地方有成群的鲈鱼和银鱼，大约只一英寸长，连前者的横行的花纹也能看得清清楚楚，你会觉得这种鱼也是不愿意沾染红尘，才到这里来生存的。

Paddling over it, you may see, many feet beneath the surface, the schools of perch and shiners, perhaps only an inch long, yet the former easily distinguished by their transverse bars, and you think that they must be ascetic fish that find a subsistence there.

有一次，在冬天里，好几年前了，为了钓梭鱼，我在冰上挖了几个洞，上岸之后，我把一柄斧头扔在冰上，可是好像有什么恶鬼故意要开玩笑似的，斧头在冰上滑过了四五杆远，刚好从一个窟窿中滑了下去，那里的水深二十五英尺，

Once, in the winter, many years ago, when I had been cutting holes through the ice in order to catch pickerel, as I stepped ashore I tossed my axe back on to the ice, but, as if some evil genius had directed it, it slid four or five rods directly into one of the holes, where the water was twenty-five feet deep.

为了好奇，我躺在冰上，从那窟窿里望，我看到了那柄斧头，它偏在一边头向下直立着，那斧柄笔直向上，顺着湖水的脉动摇摇摆摆，要不是我后来又把它吊了起来，它可能就会这样直立下去，直到木柄烂掉为止。

Out of curiosity, I lay down on the ice and looked through the hole, until I saw the axe a little on one side, standing on its head, with its helve erect and gently swaying to and fro with the pulse of the pond; and there it might have stood erect and swaying till in the course of time the handle rotted off, if I had not disturbed it.

就在它的上面，用我带来的凿冰的凿子，我又凿了一个洞，又用我的刀，割下了我看到的附近最长的一条赤杨树枝，我做了一个活结的绳圈，放在树枝的一头，小心地放下去，用它套住了斧柄凸出的地方，然后用赤杨枝旁边的绳子一拉，这样就把那柄斧头吊了起来。

Making another hole directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting down the longest birch which I could find in the neighborhood with my knife, I made a slip-noose, which I attached to its end, and, letting it down carefully, passed it over the knob of the handle, and drew it by a line along the birch, and so pulled the axe out again.

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湖岸是由一长溜像铺路石那样的光滑的圆圆的白石组成的；除一两处小小的沙滩之外，它陡立着，纵身一跃便可以跳到一个人深的水中；要不是水波明净得出奇，你决不可能看到这个湖的底部，除非是它又在对岸升起。

The shore is composed of a belt of smooth rounded white stones like paving-stones, excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in many places a single leap will carry you into water over your head; and were it not for its remarkable transparency, that would be the last to be seen of its bottom till it rose on the opposite side.

有人认为它深得没有底。

Some think it is bottomless.

它没有一处是泥泞的，偶尔观察的过客或许还会说，它里面连水草也没有一根；至于可以见到的水草，除了最近给上涨了的水淹没的、并不属于这个湖的草地以外，便是细心地查看也确实是看不到菖蒲和芦苇的，甚至没有水莲花，无论是黄色的或是白色的，最多只有一些心形叶子和河蓼草，也许还有一两张眼子菜；然而，游泳者也看不到它们；便是这些水草，也像它们生长在里面的水一样的明亮而无垢。

It is nowhere muddy, and a casual observer would say that there were no weeds at all in it; and of noticeable plants, except in the little meadows recently overflowed, which do not properly belong to it, a closer scrutiny does not detect a flag nor a bulrush, nor even a lily, yellow or white, but only a few small heart-leaves and potamogetons, and perhaps a water-target or two; all which however a bather might not perceive; and these plants are clean and bright like the element they grow in.

岸石伸展入水，只一二杆远，水底已是纯粹的细沙，除了最深的部分，那里总不免有一点沉积物，也许是腐朽了的叶子，多少个秋天来，落叶被刮到湖上，另外还有一些光亮的绿色水苔，甚至在深冬时令拔起铁锚来的时候，它们也会跟着被拔上来的。

The stones extend a rod or two into the water, and then the bottom is pure sand, except in the deepest parts, where there is usually a little sediment, probably from the decay of the leaves which have been wafted on to it so many successive falls, and a bright green weed is brought up on anchors even in midwinter.

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我们还有另一个这样的湖，在九亩角那里的白湖，在偏西两英里半之处；可是以这里为中心的十二英里半径的圆周之内，虽然还有许多的湖沼是我熟悉的，我却找不出第三个湖有这样的纯洁得如同井水的特性。

We have one other pond just like this, White Pond, in Nine Acre Corner, about two and a half miles westerly; but, though I am acquainted with most of the ponds within a dozen miles of this centre I do not know a third of this pure and well-like character.

大约历来的民族都饮用过这湖水，艳羡过它并测量过它的深度，而后他们一个个消逝了，湖水却依然澄清，发出绿色。

Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever.

一个春天也没有变化过！

Not an intermitting spring!

也许远在亚当和夏娃被逐出伊甸乐园时，那个春晨之前，瓦尔登湖已经存在了，甚至在那个时候，随着轻雾和一阵阵的南凤，飘下了一阵柔和的春雨，湖面不再平静了，成群的野鸭和天鹅在湖上游着，它们一点都没有知道逐出乐园这一回事，能有这样纯粹的湖水真够满足啦。

Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.

就是在那时候，它已经又涨，又落，纯清了它的水，还染上了现在它所有的色泽，还专有了这一片天空，成了世界上唯一的一个瓦尔登湖，它是天上露珠的蒸馏器。

Even then it had commenced to rise and fall, and had clarified its waters and colored them of the hue they now wear, and obtained a patent of Heaven to be the only Walden Pond in the world and distiller of celestial dews.

谁知道，在多少篇再没人记得的民族诗篇中，这个湖曾被誉为喀斯泰里亚之泉？在黄金时代里，有多少山林水泽的精灵曾在这里居住？

Who knows in how many unremembered nations' literatures this has been the Castalian Fountain? or what nymphs presided over it in the Golden Age?

这是在康科德的冠冕上的第一滴水明珠。

It is a gem of the first water which Concord wears in her coronet.

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第一个到这个湖边来的人们可能留下过他们的足迹。

Yet perchance the first who came to this well have left some trace of their footsteps.

我曾经很惊异地发现，就在沿湖被砍伐了的一个浓密的森林那儿，峻削的山崖中，有一条绕湖一匝的狭窄的高架的小径，一会儿上，一忽儿下，一会儿接近湖，一忽儿又离远了一些，它或许和人类同年，土著的猎者，用脚步走出了这条路来，以后世世代代都有这片土地上的居住者不知不觉地用脚走过去。

I have been surprised to detect encircling the pond, even where a thick wood has just been cut down on the shore, a narrow shelf-like path in the steep hillside, alternately rising and falling, approaching and receding from the water's edge, as old probably as the race of man here, worn by the feet of aboriginal hunters, and still from time to time unmittingly trodden by the present occupants of the land.

冬天，站在湖中央，看起来这就更加清楚，特别在下了一阵小雪之后，它就成了连绵起伏的一条白线，败草和枯枝都不能够掩蔽它，许多地点，在四分之一英里以外看起来还格外清楚，但是夏天里，便是走近去看，也还是看不出来。

This is particularly distinct to one standing on the middle of the pond in winter, just after a light snow has fallen, appearing as a clear undulating white line, unobscured by weeds and twigs, and very obvious a quarter of a mile off in many places where in summer it is hardly distinguishable close at hand.

可以说，雪花用清楚的白色的浮雕又把它印刷出来了。

The snow reprints it, as it were, in clear white type alto-relievo.

但愿到了将来，人们在这里建造一些别墅的装饰庭园时，还能保留这一残迹。

The ornamented grounds of villas which will one day be built here may still preserve some trace of this.

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湖水时涨时落，但是有没有规律，如有规律，又是怎样的周期，谁也不知道，虽然有不少人，照常要装作是知道的。

The pond rises and falls, but whether regularly or not, and within what period, nobody knows, though, as usual, many pretend to know.

冬天的水位通常要高一些，夏天的总低一些，但水位与天气的干燥潮湿却没有关系。

It is commonly higher in the winter and lower in the summer, though not corresponding to the general wet and dryness.

我还记得，何时水退到比我住在那儿的时候低了一两英尺，何时又涨高了至少有五英尺。

I can remember when it was a foot or two lower, and also when it was at least five feet higher, than when I lived by it.

有一个狭长的沙洲伸展到湖中，它的一面是深水，离主岸约六杆，那大约是一八二四年，我曾在上面煮开过一壶杂烩，可是一连二十五年水淹没了它，我无法再去煮什么了；另一方面，当我告诉我的朋友们说，数年之后，我会经常垂钧在森林中的那个僻隐的山凹里，驾一叶扁舟，在离开他们现在看得见的湖岸约十五杆的地方，那里早已成为一片草地了，他们常常听得将信将疑。

There is a narrow sand-bar running into it, with very deep water on one side, on which I helped boil a kettle of chowder, some six rods from the main shore, about the year 1824, which it has not been possible to do for twenty-five years; and, on the other hand, my friends used to listen with incredulity when I told them, that a few years later I was accustomed to fish from a boat in a secluded cove in the woods, fifteen rods from the only shore they knew, which place was long since converted into a meadow.

可是，两年来，湖一直在涨高，现在，一八五二年的夏天，比我居住那儿的时候已经高出五英尺，相当于三十年之前的高度，在那片草地上又可以垂钓了。

But the pond has risen steadily for two years, and now, in the summer of '52, is just five feet higher than when I lived there, or as high as it was thirty years ago, and fishing goes on again in the meadow.

从外表看，水位已涨了六七英尺，但是从周围的山上流下来的水量实际上不多，涨水一定是由于影响它深处泉源的一些原因。

This makes a difference of level, at the outside, of six or seven feet; and yet the water shed by the surrounding hills is insignificant in amount, and this overflow must be referred to causes which affect the deep springs.

同一个夏天里水又退了。

This same summer the pond has begun to fall again.

惊人的是这种涨落，不管它有否周期，却需要好几年才能够完成。

It is remarkable that this fluctuation, whether periodical or not, appears thus to require many years for its accomplishment.

我观察到一次涨，又部分地观察了两次退，我想在十二或十五年后，水位又要降落到我以前知道的地方。

I have observed one rise and a part of two falls, and I expect that a dozen or fifteen years hence the water will again be as low as I have ever known it.

偏东一英里，茀灵特湖有泉水流入，又流水出去，是激荡涨落的，而一些介乎中间的较小的湖沼却和瓦尔登湖同进退，最近也涨到了它们的最高的水位，时间与后者相同。

Flint's Pond, a mile eastward, allowing for the disturbance occasioned by its inlets and outlets, and the smaller intermediate ponds also, sympathize with Walden, and recently attained their greatest height at the same time with the latter.

根据我的观察所及，白湖的情形也如此。

The same is true, as far as my observation goes, of White Pond.

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间隔很久的瓦尔登湖的涨落至少有这样一个作用：在最高的水位维持了一年左右，沿湖步行固然困难了，但自从上一次水涨以来，沿湖生长的灌木和苍松，白桦，桤木，白杨等树木都给冲刷掉了，等它水位退下，就留下一片干净的湖岸，它不像别的湖沼和每天水位涨落的河流，它在水位最低时，湖岸上反而最清洁。

This rise and fall of Walden at long intervals serves this use at least; the water standing at this great height for a year or more, though it makes it difficult to walk round it, kills the shrubs and trees which have sprung up about its edge since the last rise- pitch pines, birches, alders, aspens, and others- and, falling again, leaves an unobstructed shore; for, unlike many ponds and all waters which are subject to a daily tide, its shore is cleanest when the water is lowest.

在我屋边的那湖岸上，一排十五英尺高的苍松给冲刷了，仿佛给杠杆掀倒了似的，这样制止了它们的侵占；那树木的大小恰好说明了上次水位上涨到这个高度迄今有了多少年。

On the side of the pond next my house a row of pitch pines, fifteen feet high, has been killed and tipped over as if by a lever, and thus a stop put to their encroachments; and their size indicates how many years have elapsed since the last rise to this height.

用这样的涨落方式，湖保持了它的拥有湖岸的权利，湖岸这样被刮去了胡须，树木不能凭着所有权来占领它。

By this fluctuation the pond asserts its title to a shore, and thus the shore is shorn, and the trees cannot hold it by right of possession.

湖的舌头舔着，使胡子生长不出来。

These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows.

它时时要舔舔它的面颊。

It licks its chaps from time to time.

当湖水涨得最高时，桤木，柳树和枫树从它们的淹在水里的根上伸出来大量纤维质的红根须，长达数英尺，离地有三四英尺高，想这样来保护它们自己；我还发现了，那些在岸边高处的浆果，通常是不结果实的，但在这种情况下，却就有了丰收。

When the water is at its height, the alders, willows, and maples send forth a mass of fibrous red roots several feet long from all sides of their stems in the water, and to the height of three or four feet from the ground, in the effort to maintain themselves; and I have known the high blueberry bushes about the shore, which commonly produce no fruit, bear an abundant crop under these circumstances.

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湖岸怎么会铺砌得这样整齐，有人百思不得其解，

Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly paved.

乡镇上的人都听到过传说，最年老的人告诉我说，他们是在青年时代听来的——在古时候，正当印第安人在一个小山上举行狂欢庆典，小山忽然高高升到天上，就像湖现在这样深深降人地下，据说他们做了许多不敬神的行为，其实印第安人从没有犯过这种罪，正当他们这样亵读神明的时候，山岳震撼，大地突然间沉下去，只留下了一个印第安女子，名叫瓦尔登，她逃掉了性命，从此这湖沿用了她的名字。

My townsmen have all heard the tradition- the oldest people tell me that they heard it in their youth- that anciently the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named.

据揣想是在山岳震撼时，这些圆石滚了下来，铺成了现在的湖岸。

It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its side and became the present shore.

无论如何，这一点可以确定，以前这里没有湖，现在却有了一个；这一个印第安神话跟我前面说起过的那一位古代的居民是毫无抵触的，他清清楚楚地记得他初来时，带来一根魔杖，他看到草地上升起了一种稀薄的雾气，那根榛木杖就一直指向下面，直到后来他决定挖一口井。

It is very certain, at any rate, that once there was no pond here, and now there is one; and this Indian fable does not in any respect conflict with the account of that ancient settler whom I have mentioned, who remembers so well when he first came here with his divining-rod, saw a thin vapor rising from the sward, and the hazel pointed steadily downward, and he concluded to dig a well here.

至于那些石子呢，很多人认为它们不可能起固于山的波动；据我观察，四周的山上有很多这样的石子，因此人们不能不在铁路经过的最靠近那湖的地方在两边筑起墙垣；而且湖岸愈是陡削的地方，石子愈是多；所以，不幸的是，这对于我不再有什么神秘了。

As for the stones, many still think that they are hardly to be accounted for by the action of the waves on these hills; but I observe that the surrounding hills are remarkably full of the same kind of stones, so that they have been obliged to pile them up in walls on both sides of the railroad cut nearest the pond; and, moreover, there are most stones where the shore is most abrupt; so that, unfortunately, it is no longer a mystery to me.

我猜出了铺砌的人来了。

I detect the paver.

如果这个湖名不是由当地一个叫萨福隆?瓦尔登的英国人的名字化出来的后，——那末，我想瓦尔登湖原来的名字可能是围而得湖。

If the name was not derived from that of some English locality- Saffron Walden, for instance- one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond.

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湖对于我，是一口挖好的现成的井。

The pond was my well ready dug.

一年有四个月水是冰冷的，正如它一年四季的水是纯净的；我想，这时候它就算不是乡镇上最好的水，至少比得上任何地方的水。

For four months in the year its water is as cold as it is pure at all times; and I think that it is then as good as any, if not the best, in the town.

在冬天里，暴露在空气中的水，总比那些保暖的泉水和井水来得更冷。

In the winter, all water which is exposed to the air is colder than springs and wells which are protected from it.

从下午五点直到第二天，一八四六年三月六日正午，在我静坐的房间内，寒暑表温度时而是华氏六十五度，时而是七十度，一部分是因为太阳曾照在我的屋脊上，而从湖中汲取的水，放在这房子里，温度只四十二度，比起村中最冷的一口井里当场汲取的井水还低了一度。

The temperature of the pond water which had stood in the room where I sat from five o'clock in the afternoon till noon the next day, the sixth of March, 1846, the thermometer having been up to 65' or 70' some of the time, owing partly to the sun on the roof, was 42', or one degree colder than the water of one of the coldest wells in the village just drawn.

同一天内，沸泉温度是四十五度，那是经我测量的各种水中最最温暖的了，虽然到了夏天，它又是最最寒冷的水，那是指浮在上面的浅浅一层停滞的水并没有混杂在内。

The temperature of the Boiling Spring the same day was 45', or the warmest of any water tried, though it is the coldest that I know of in summer, when, beside, shallow and stagnant surface water is not mingled with it.

在夏天里，瓦尔登湖因为很深，所以也不同于一般暴露在阳光底下的水。

Moreover, in summer, Walden never becomes so warm as most water which is exposed to the sun, on account of its depth.

它没有它们那么热。在最热的气候里，我时常汲一桶水，放在地窖里面。它夜间一冷却下来，就整天都冷，有时我也到附近一个泉水里去汲水。

In the warmest weather I usually placed a pailful in my cellar, where it became cool in the night, and remained so during the day; though I also resorted to a spring in the neighborhood.

过了一个星期，水还像汲出来的当天一样好，并且没有抽水机的味道。

It was as good when a week old as the day it was dipped, and had no taste of the pump.

谁要在夏天，到湖边去露营，只要在营帐的阴处，把一桶水埋下几英尺深，他就可以不用奢侈的藏冰了。

Whoever camps for a week in summer by the shore of a pond, needs only bury a pail of water a few feet deep in the shade of his camp to be independent of the luxury of ice.

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在瓦尔登湖中，捉到过梭鱼，有一条重七磅，且不去说那另外的一条，用非常的速度把一卷钓丝拉走了，渔夫因为没有看到它，估计它稳稳当当有八磅的重量，此外，还捉到过鲈鱼，鳘鱼，有些重两磅，还有银鱼，鳊鱼（学名LeueiscusPulchellus），极少量的鲤鱼，两条鳗鱼，有一条有四磅重，——我对于鱼的重量写得这样详细，因为它们的价值一般是根据重量来决定的，至于鳗鱼，除了这两条我就没有听说过另外的，——此外，我还隐约记得一条五英寸长的小鱼，两侧是银色的，背脊却呈青色，性质上近于鲦鱼，我提起这条鱼，主要是为了把事实和寓言连接起来。

There have been caught in Walden pickerel, one weighing seven pounds- to say nothing of another which carried off a reel with great velocity, which the fisherman safely set down at eight pounds because he did not see him- perch and pouts, some of each weighing over two pounds, shiners, chivins or roach (Leuciscus pulchellus), a very few breams, and a couple of eels, one weighing four pounds- I am thus particular because the weight of a fish is commonly its only title to fame, and these are the only eels I have heard of here;- also, I have a faint recollection of a little fish some five inches long, with silvery sides and a greenish back, somewhat dace-like in its character, which I mention here chiefly to link my facts to fable.

总之是，这个湖里，鱼并不多。

Nevertheless, this pond is not very fertile in fish.

梭鱼也不很多，但它夸耀的是梭鱼。有一次我躺卧在冰上面，至少看到了三种不同的梭鱼，一种扁而长的，钢灰色，像一般从河里捉起来的一样；一种是金晃晃的，有绿色的闪光，在很深的深水中；最后一种金色的，形态跟上一种相近，但身体两侧有棕黑色或黑色斑点，中间还夹着一些淡淡的血红色斑点，很像鲑鱼。

Its pickerel, though not abundant, are its chief boast. I have seen at one time lying on the ice pickerel of at least three different kinds: a long and shallow one, steel-colored, most like those caught in the river; a bright golden kind, with greenish reflections and remarkably deep, which is the most common here; and another, golden-colored, and shaped like the last, but peppered on the sides with small dark brown or black spots, intermixed with a few faint blood-red ones, very much like a trout.

但学名reticulatus（网形）用不上，被称为guttatus（斑斓）才对。

The specific name reticulatus would not apply to this; it should be guttatus rather.

这些都是很结实的鱼，重量比外貌上看来要重得多。

These are all very firm fish, and weigh more than their size promises.

银鱼、鳘鱼，还有鲈鱼，所有在这个湖中的水族，确实都比一般的河流和多数的别的湖沼中的鱼类，来得更清洁，更漂亮，更结实，因为这里的湖水更纯洁，你可以很容易地把它们区别出来。

The shiners, pouts, and perch also, and indeed all the fishes which inhabit this pond, are much cleaner, handsomer, and firmer-fleshed than those in the river and most other ponds, as the water is purer, and they can easily be distinguished from them.

也许有许多鱼学家可以用它们来培育出一些新品种。

Probably many ichthyologists would make new varieties of some of them.

此外还有清洁的青蛙和乌龟，少数的淡菜；麝香鼠和貂鼠也留下过它们的足迹；偶尔还有从烂泥中钻出来旅行经过的甲鱼。

There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces about it, and occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it.

有一次，当我在黎明中把我的船推离湖岸时，有一只夜里躲在船底下的大甲鱼给我惊拢得不安了。

Sometimes, when I pushed off my boat in the morning, I disturbed a great mud-turtle which had secreted himself under the boat in the night.

春秋两季，鸭和天鹅常来，白肚皮的燕子（学名Hirundobicolor）在水波上掠过，还有些身有斑点的田凫（学名Totanusmacularius）整个夏天摇摇摆摆地走在石头湖岸上。

Ducks and geese frequent it in the spring and fall, the white-bellied swallows (Hirundo bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets (Totanus macularius) "teeter" along its stony shores all summer.

我有时还惊起了湖水上面、坐在白松枝头的一只鱼鹰；我却不知道有没有海鸥飞到这里来过，像它们曾飞到过美港去那样。

I have sometimes disturbed a fish hawk sitting on a white pine over the water; but I doubt if it is ever profaned by the wind of a gull, like Fair Haven.

至多每年还有一次潜水鸟要来。

At most, it tolerates one annual loon.

常到这里来的飞禽，已全部包罗在内了。

These are all the animals of consequence which frequent it now.

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在宁静的气候中，坐在船上，你可以看到，东边的沙滩附近，水深八英尺或十英尺的地方，在湖的另一些地方，也可以看到的，有圆形的一堆堆东西，约一英尺高，直径约六英尺，堆的是比鸡蛋略小的一些圆石，而在这一堆堆圆石周围，全是黄沙。

You may see from a boat, in calm weather, near the sandy eastern, shore where the water is eight or ten feet deep, and also in some other parts of the pond, some circular heaps half a dozen feet in diameter by a foot in height, consisting of small stones less than a hen's egg in size, where all around is bare sand.

起初，你会觉得惊奇，是否那些印第安人故意在冰上堆积这些圆石，等到冰溶化了，它们就沉到了湖底；但是，就算这样吧，那形式还是太规则化了，而且有些圆石，显然又太新鲜。

At first you wonder if the Indians could have formed them on the ice for any purpose, and so, when the ice melted, they sank to the bottom; but they are too regular and some of them plainly too fresh for that.

它们和河流中可以看见的很相似。但这里没有胭脂鱼或八目鳗，我不知道它是哪一些鱼建筑起来的。

They are similar to those found in rivers; but as there are no suckers nor lampreys here, I know not by what fish they could be made.

也许它是银鱼的巢。

Perhaps they are the nests of the chivin.

这样，水底更有了一种愉快的神秘感了。

These lend a pleasing mystery to the bottom.

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湖岸极不规则，所以一点不单调。

The shore is irregular enough not to be monotonous.

我闭目也能看见，西岸有深深的锯齿形的湾，北岸较开朗，而那美丽的，扇贝形的南岸，一个个岬角相互地交叠着，使人想起岬角之间一定还有人迹未到的小海湾。

I have in my mind's eye the western, indented with deep bays, the bolder northern, and the beautifully scalloped southern shore, where successive capes overlap each other and suggest unexplored coves between.

在群山之中，小湖中央，望着水边直立而起的那些山上的森林，这些森林不能再有更好的背景，也不能更美丽了，因为森林已经反映在湖水中，这不仅是形成了最美的前景，而且那弯弯曲曲的湖岸，恰又给它做了最自然又最愉悦的边界线。

The forest has never so good a setting, nor is so distinctly beautiful, as when seen from the middle of a small lake amid hills which rise from the water's edge; for the water in which it is reflected not only makes the best foreground in such a case, but, with its winding shore, the most natural and agreeable boundary to it.

不像斧头砍伐出一个林中空地，或者露出了一片开垦了的田地的那种地方，这儿没有不美的或者不完整的感觉。

There is no rawness nor imperfection in its edge there, as where the axe has cleared a part, or a cultivated field abuts on it.

树木都有充分的余地在水边扩展，每一棵树都向了这个方向伸出最强有力的桠枝。

The trees have ample room to expand on the water side, and each sends forth its most vigorous branch in that direction.

大自然编织了一幅很自然的织锦，眼睛可以从沿岸最低的矮树渐渐地望上去，望到最高的树。

There Nature has woven a natural selvage, and the eye rises by just gradations from the low shrubs of the shore to the highest trees.

这里看不到多少人类的双手留下的痕迹。

There are few traces of man's hand to be seen.

水洗湖岸，正如一千年前。

The water laves the shore as it did a thousand years ago.

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一个湖是风景中最美、最有表情的姿容。

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.

它是大地的眼睛；望着它的人可以测出他自己的天性的深浅。

It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

湖所产生的湖边的树木是睫毛一样的镶边，而四周森林蓊郁的群山和山崖是它的浓密突出的眉毛。

The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.

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站在湖东端的平坦的沙滩上，在一个平静的九月下午，薄雾使对岸的岸线看不甚清楚，那时我了解了所谓“玻璃似的湖面”这句话是什么意思了。

Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September afternoon, when a slight haze makes the opposite shore-line indistinct, I have seen whence came the expression, "the glassy surface of a lake."

当你倒转了头看湖，它像一条最精细的薄纱张挂在山谷之上，衬着远处的松林而发光，把大气的一层和另外的一层隔开了。

When you invert your head, it looks like a thread of finest gossamer stretched across the valley, and gleaming against the distant pine woods, separating one stratum of the atmosphere from another.

你会觉得你可以从它下面走过去，走到对面的山上，而身体还是干的，你觉得掠过水面的燕子很可以停在水面上。

You would think that you could walk dry under it to the opposite hills, and that the swallows which skim over might perch on it.

是的，有时它们氽水到水平线之下，好像这是偶然的错误，继而恍然大悟。

Indeed, they sometimes dive below this line, as it were by mistake, and are undeceived.

当你向西，望到湖对面去的时候，你不能不用两手来保护你的眼睛，一方面挡开本来的太阳光，同时又挡开映在水中的太阳光；如果，这时你能够在这两种太阳光之间，批判地考察湖面，它正应了那句话，所谓“波平如镜”了，其时只有一些掠水虫，隔开了同等距离，分散在全部的湖面，而由于它们在阳光里发出了最精美的想象得到的闪光来，或许，还会有一只鸭子在整理它自己的羽毛，或许，正如我已经说过的，一只燕子飞掠在水面上，低得碰到了水。

As you look over the pond westward you are obliged to employ both your hands to defend your eyes against the reflected as well as the true sun, for they are equally bright; and if, between the two, you survey its surface critically, it is literally as smooth as glass, except where the skater insects, at equal intervals scattered over its whole extent, by their motions in the sun produce the finest imaginable sparkle on it, or, perchance, a duck plumes itself, or, as I have said, a swallow skims so low as to touch it.

还有可能，在远处，有一条鱼在空中画出了一个大约三四英尺的圆弧来，它跃起时一道闪光，降落入水，又一道闪光，有时，全部的圆弧展露了，银色的圆弧；但这里或那里，有时会漂着一枝蓟草，鱼向它一跃，水上便又激起水涡。

It may be that in the distance a fish describes an arc of three or four feet in the air, and there is one bright flash where it emerges, and another where it strikes the water; sometimes the whole silvery arc is revealed; or here and there, perhaps, is a thistle-down floating on its surface, which the fishes dart at and so dimple it again.

这像是玻璃的溶液，已经冷却，但是还没有凝结，而其中连少数尘垢也还是纯洁而美丽的，像玻璃中的细眼。

It is like molten glass cooled but not congealed, and the few motes in it are pure and beautiful like the imperfections in glass.

你还常常可以看到一片更平滑、更黝黑的水，好像有一张看不见的蜘蛛网把它同其余的隔开似的，成了水妖的栅栏，躺在湖面。

You may often detect a yet smoother and darker water, separated from the rest as if by an invisible cobweb, boom of the water nymphs, resting on it.

从山顶下瞰，你可以看到，几乎到处都有跃起的鱼；在这样凝滑的平面上，没有一条梭鱼或银鱼在捕捉一个虫子时，不会破坏全湖的均势的。

From a hilltop you can see a fish leap in almost any part; for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake.

真是神奇，这简简单单的一件事，却可以这么精巧地显现，——这水族界的谋杀案会暴露出来——我站在远远的高处，看到了那水的扩大的圆涡，它们的直径有五六杆长。

It is wonderful with what elaborateness this simple fact is advertised- this piscine murder will out- and from my distant perch I distinguish the circling undulations when they are half a dozen rods in diameter.

甚至你还可以看到水蝎（学名Gyrinus）不停地在平滑的水面滑了四分之一英里；它们微微地犁出了水上的皱纹来，分出两条界线，其间有着很明显的漪澜；而掠水虫在水面上滑来滑去却不留下显明的可见痕迹。

You can even detect a water-bug (Gyrinus) ceaselessly progressing over the smooth surface a quarter of a mile off; for they furrow the water slightly, making a conspicuous ripple bounded by two diverging lines, but the skaters glide over it without rippling it perceptibly.

在湖水激荡的时候，便看不到掠水虫和水蝎了，显然只在风平浪静的时候，它们才从它们的港埠出发，探险似地从湖岸的一面，用短距离的滑行，滑上前去，滑上前去，直到它们滑过全湖。

When the surface is considerably agitated there are no skaters nor water-bugs on it, but apparently, in calm days, they leave their havens and adventurously glide forth from the shore by short impulses till they completely cover it.

这是何等愉快的事啊。秋天里，在这样一个晴朗的天气中，充分地享受了太阳的温暖，在这样的高处坐在一个树桩上，湖的全景尽收眼底，细看那圆圆的水涡，那些圆涡一刻不停地刻印在天空和树木的倒影中间的水面上，要不是有这些水涡，水面是看不到的。

It is a soothing employment, on one of those fine days in the fall when all the warmth of the sun is fully appreciated, to sit on a stump on such a height as this, overlooking the pond, and study the dimpling circles which are incessantly inscribed on its otherwise invisible surface amid the reflected skies and trees.

在这样广大的一片水面上，并没有一点儿扰动，就有一点儿，也立刻柔和地复归于平静而消失了，好像在水边装一瓶子水，那些颤栗的水波流回到岸边之后，立刻又平滑了。一条鱼跳跃起来，一个虫子掉落到湖上，都这样用圆涡，用美丽的线条来表达，仿佛那是泉源中的经常的喷涌，它的生命的轻柔的搏动，它的胸膛的呼吸起伏。

Over this great expanse there is no disturbance but it is thus at once gently smoothed away and assuaged, as, when a vase of water is jarred, the trembling circles seek the shore and all is smooth again. Not a fish can leap or an insect fall on the pond but it is thus reported in circling dimples, in lines of beauty, as it were the constant welling up of its fountain, the gentle pulsing of its life, the heaving of its breast.

那是欢乐的震抖，还是痛苦的颤栗，都无从分辨。

The thrills of joy and thrills of pain are undistinguishable.

湖的现象是何等的和平啊！

How peaceful the phenomena of the lake!

人类的工作又像在春天里一样的发光了。

Again the works of man shine as in the spring.

是啊，每一树叶、桠枝、石子和蜘蛛网在下午茶时又在发光，跟它们在春天的早晨承露以后一样。

Ay, every leaf and twig and stone and cobweb sparkles now at mid-afternoon as when covered with dew in a spring morning.

每一支划桨的或每一只虫子的动作都能发出一道闪光来，而一声桨响，又能引出何等的甜蜜的回音来啊！

Every motion of an oar or an insect produces a flash of light; and if an oar falls, how sweet the echo!

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(1) Source of English Version

It appears the English version is the original found on the internet.

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