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On one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the latter part of autumn when the shadows of morning and evening almost mingle together,
時方晚秋，氣象肅穆，略帶憂郁，早晨的陰影和黃昏的陰影，幾乎連接在一起，
and throw a gloom over the decline of the year, I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey.
不可分別，歲云將暮，終日昏暗，我就在這么一天，到西敏大寺去信步走了幾個鐘頭。
There was something congenial to the season in the mournful magnificence of the old pile,
古寺巍巍，森森然似有鬼氣，和陰沉沉的季候正好相符；
and as I passed its threshold it seemed like stepping back into the regions of antiquity and losing myself among the shades of former ages.
我跨進大門，覺得自己好像已經(jīng)置身遠古世界，忘形于昔日的憧憧鬼影之中了。
I entered from the inner court of Westminster School,
我是從西敏學校的內(nèi)庭走進去的，
through a long, low, vaulted passage that had an almost subterranean look,
先走過一條弧頂?shù)陌拈L廊，墻壁很厚，墻上有圓孔，
being dimly lighted in one part by circular perforations in the massive walls.
略有光線透入，廊中幽暗，幽幽然似在地下行走。
Through this dark avenue I had a distant view of the cloisters,
黑廊盡頭，我遠遠的看見大寺里的回廊，一個老年香火道人，
with the figure of an old verger in his black gown moving along their shadowy vaults,
身穿黑袍，正沿著拱廊陰影里踽踽走去，
and seeming like a spectre from one of the neighboring tombs.
看起來就像從附近的古墳里爬出來的鬼魂。
The approach to the abbey through these gloomy monastic remains prepares the mind for its solemn contemplation.
我從當年僧院遺址那條路進入古寺，景象分外凄涼，我心也更適宜于往凄涼方面冥想了。
The cloisters still retain something of the quiet and seclusion of former days.
回廊一帶依然保留有幾分當年的幽靜出世之慨。
The gray walls are discolored by damps and crumbling with age;
灰色的墻壁為霉氣所蒸，顯得斑斑駁駁，年代己久，頹壞之象，也很明顯。
a coat of hoary moss has gathered over the inscriptions of the mural monuments,
墻上長了一層白蒼蒼的苔薛，
and obscured the death’s heads and other funeral emblems.
非但上面的碑文不可讀，連骷髏像和別的喪用標志都模糊不清。
The sharp touches of the chisel are gone from the rich tracery of the arches;
弧頂布滿雕刻花紋，可是斧鉆的痕跡，也已模糊；
the roses which adorned the keystones have lost their leafy beauty;
拱心石上面雕有玫瑰花，可是當年枝葉茂美之狀，已經(jīng)不可復見。
everything bears marks of the gradual dilapidations of time,
每樣東西都可以看出年久衰敗之象，
which yet has something touching and pleasing in its very decay.
可是即使處在頹朽之中，依然不乏賞心悅目之處。
