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There will be tufts of iris everywhere, arising up proud and tender. When the rose-coloured wild gladiolus is mingled in the corn, and love-in-the-mist opens blue: in May and June, before the corn is cut.
世界將變成一叢叢蝴蝶花的天下，它們得意而柔嫩地昂起頭。五六月。谷物還沒收割的時候。在野外，玫瑰色的唐菖蒲就會混合在谷物中。而黑種草開著藍色的花朵。
But as yet is neither May nor June, but the end of April, the pause between spring and summer, the nightingale singing uninterrupted, the bean-flowers dying in the bean-fields, the bean-perfume passing with spring, the little birds hatching in the nests, the olives pruned, and the vines, the last bit of late ploughing finished, and not much work to hand, now, not until the peas are ready to pick, in another two weeks or so.
但現(xiàn)在還沒到五月或六月—只是四月末。春夏之間的間歇，在這個時節(jié)里：夜鶯不停地歌唱；豆地里的豆花正在凋謝；豆的芳香正隨著春天一起逝去；小鳥在巢里成長；橄欖已被修剪；葡萄已經過了最后的耕種時節(jié)；兩個星期后豌豆成熟之前，沒有多少活兒要做。
So the change, the endless and rapid change. In the sunny countries, the change seems more vivid, and more complete than in the grey countries. In the grey countries, there is a grey or dark permanency, over whose surface passes change ephemeral, leaving no real mark.
這樣才是變化，永不停息的快速變化。在陽光照耀的地方，變化似乎更顯著，比在昏暗地帶更徹底。而在沒有陽光的地方，是一成不變的灰暗和陰暗。變化只是短暫的事，不會留下任何記號。
