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Far and near, high and low around the pool were trees, most of them willows. These trees had the pool entirely hemmed in, the only small clearings left being those by the path, apparently intended for the moon. All the trees were somber as dense smoke, but among them you could make out the luxuriant willows, while faintly above the tree-tops loomed distant hills-their general outline only. And between the trees appeared one or two street lamps, listless as the eyes of someone drowsy. The liveliest sounds at this hour were the cicadas chirruping on the trees and the frogs croaking in the pool; but this animation was theirs alone, I had no part in it.
荷塘的四面，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)近近，高高低低都是樹(shù)，而楊柳最多。這些樹(shù)將一片荷塘重重圍住；只在小路一旁，漏著幾段空隙，像是特為月光留下的。樹(shù)色一例是陰陰的，乍看像一團(tuán)煙霧；但楊柳的豐姿，便在煙霧里也辨得出。樹(shù)梢上隱隱約約的是一帶遠(yuǎn)山，只有些大意罷了。樹(shù)縫里也漏著一兩點(diǎn)路燈光，沒(méi)精打采的，是渴睡人的眼。 這時(shí)候最熱鬧的，要數(shù)樹(shù)上的蟬聲與水里的蛙聲；但熱鬧是它們的，我什么也沒(méi)有。
Then lotus-gathering flashed into my mind. This was an old custom south of the Yangtse, which apparently originated very early and was most popular in the period of the Six Kingdoms,as we see from the songs of the time. The lotus were picked by girls in small boats, who sang haunting songs as they padded. They turned out in force, we may be sure, and there were spectators too, for that was a cheerful festival and a romantic one. We have a good account of it in a poem by Emperor Yuan of the Liang dynasty called Lotus Gatherers.
忽然想起采蓮的事情來(lái)了。采蓮是江南的舊俗，似乎很早就有，而六朝時(shí)為盛；從詩(shī)歌里可以約略知道。采蓮的是少年的女子，她們是蕩著小船，唱著艷歌去的。采蓮人不用說(shuō)很多，還有看采蓮的人。那是一個(gè)熱鬧的季節(jié)，也是一個(gè)風(fēng)流的季節(jié)。梁元帝《采蓮賦》里說(shuō)得好。
