(隻少有三處沒聽懂)
A Little Girl
Sitting on the grassic grave beneathe one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her head bended back, she was gazing up to the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to the tiny color clound that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which suddenly became very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metalic luster and it was difficult to say what was the color: dard brown or black. So completely obsorbed was she and watching her cloud to which her strange song or incantation seemed to address that she did not observe me when I rose and went toward her. Over her head, high up in the blue a lark that was soaring toward the same glossy cloud, was singing as if in a rivery. As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead which in the sunshine sheened like a grove of pearl, and especailly by her complexion, that she was uncommonly lovely. Her eyes, which at one moment seemed to be blue grey and another violet, was shaded by long black lashes curving backward in a most particular way and this matched in cute her eyebrows. And the xxx was tossed about her tender throat and xxx in the sunlight. All of these I did not take it at once. For at first I could see nothing but those li?ing and equivalent changeful eyes turned up into my face, gradually the other features especially the sensitively fullet of mouth glued on me as I stood silently gazing. Here seemed to me a more perfect beauty than has ever come to me in my lovest dream scene of beauty. Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look that she gave me fasinated me, melted me.
小女孩
在教堂的一扇窗下長滿綠草的墳堆上,坐著個小女孩。她仰著頭,望著天空,唱著歌兒。她的小手指點著一朵飄浮在她頭頂的金色羽毛般的小彩雲。突然間,陽光顯得格外燦爛,照在她光澤的頭發上,給它塗上一層金屬似的光彩,很難說出它突竟是什麽顏色,是深褐色,還是黑色。她是那麽全神貫注地望著彩雲,她那奇妙的歌聲,或可說是喃喃自語,似乎是對著那彩雲而發的。因而她沒有注意到我站起身來朝她走去。在她上空高高的藍天裏,一隻展翅飛向那朵輕盈透明的彩雲的雲雀也在歌唱,似乎在與她比賽。我慢步向小女孩走去,她那在陽光下如同珍珠一樣圓潤的前額,特別是她那膚色,使我感到她真是異常可愛。媳耶黑黑的長睫毛非常別致地朝後彎曲著,掩映著一雙一會兒象是藍灰色的,一會兒又象是紫羅蘭色的眼睛。她的長睫毛同她的眉毛和頭發色澤調和,披拂在她嬌嫩的脖子上的發綹,在陽光裏輕輕飄動。我並沒有馬上領略到這一切,因為我一開始隻注意了那雙閃閃發光、富於表情、盯著我看的眼睛。我佇立在一邊默默地注視著她,才漸漸地看清了她容貌的其他部分,特別是那張靈敏而又豐滿的小嘴。呈現在我眼苧的這一美的形象似乎比我在最美好的夢境中所見過的更美。然而,與其說是她的美麗,不如說是她朝我看的那種眼神,更使我著迷,更使我陶醉。