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Summer Sunrises on the Mississippi
密西西比河上夏天的日出
One can never see too many summer sunrises on the Mississippi.
夏天，密西西比河上的日出奇美無比，
They are enchanting.
令人百看不厭。
First, there is the eloquence of silence;for a deep hush broods everywhere.
日出伊始，河面一片寧靜，仿佛世界都陷入了沉思當中。
Next, there is the haunting sense of loneliness, isolation,remoteness from the worry and bustle of the world.
隨后，孤寂、隔絕的氣息彌漫四周，絲毫沒有塵世的煩惱與喧囂。
The dawn creeps in stealthily;
跟著黎明悄然而至；
the solid walls of the black forest soften to grey,and vast stretches of the river open up and reveal themselves;
那一片黑壓壓的森林，如城垣一般堅不可摧，也緩緩地被日光融化成灰色，廣闊的水域也漸漸清晰，映入眼簾；
the water is smooth,gives off spectral little wreaths of white-mist,there is not the faintest breath of wind, nor stir of leaf;
河水如玻璃一般明凈，在光譜的映照下泛出一圈一圈的白暈，河面上風平浪靜，落葉仿佛也受到感染，紋絲不動；
the tranquility is profound and infinitely satisfying.
一切是如此的靜謐，如此的賞心悅目！
Then a bird pipes up, another follows,and soon the pipings develop into a jubilant riot of music.
接著，一只鳥兒叫出聲來，其它鳥兒也陸續鳴叫，很快，鳥兒們的叫聲儼然變成一首歡快的歌曲。
You see none of the birds,you simply move through an atmosphere of song which seems to sing itself.
但你絲毫見不著它們的身影；你只感覺動聽的歌聲如天籟般從四處傳來。
When the light has become a little stronger,you have one of the fairest and softest pictures imaginable.
當光線稍微變強時，一切如夢如幻，柔和淡雅，美不勝收。
You have the intense green of the massed and crowded foliage near by;you see it paling shade by shade in front of you;
河的附近，樹木枝繁葉茂，郁郁蔥蔥；放眼望去，一排厚似一排，直至暗無蹤影；
upon the next projecting cape,a mile off or more,the tint has lightened to the tender young green of spring;
沿著河岸走一英里左右，來到下一個河岬，這周圍的色調比之前稍淡，宛似春天的翠綠色；
the cape beyond that one has almost lost colour,and the furthest one, miles away under the horizon,sleeps upon the water a mere dim vapour,and hardly separable from the sky above it and about it.
再前一處的河岬更淡，若有似無，最遠的那個河岬，低于地平線數尺，朦朦朧朧，依稀可見，仿佛枕在水面上，與天相接，不分彼此。
And all this stretch of river is a mirror,and you have shadowy reflections of the leafage and the curving shores and the receding capes pictured in it.
廣闊的河面好似一面明鏡，淡淡地映照著叢集的枝葉、蜿蜒的河岸和漸行漸遠的河岬。
Well, this is all beautiful; soft and rich and beautiful;
一切都是那么美；或淡雅、或濃郁，無一不美；
and when the sun gets well up,and distributes a pink flush here and a powder of gold yonder and a purple haze where it will yield the best effect,you grant that you have something that is worth remembering.
太陽高高升起時，從此處看，它的周圍泛著粉紅色的暈圍，從彼處看，它又灑著一粒粒的金光，最妙不可言的，是它周圍若隱若現的紫色。這一切，能不令人懷想？
