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Among the pleasant villages and farms
鄉間萬物孕育著樂趣，
Adjoin'd from each thing met conceived delight
谷物、干草、黃牛、牛乳，
The smell of grain, or tended grass, or kine
每一處農家美景，
Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound
每一處鄉間樂賦。
Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors receive an additional entertainment from the country，as it revives in their memories those charming descriptions, with which such authors do frequently abound.
那些熟悉這些名人佳作的人，在他們的腦海里總能浮現出名人筆下反復出現的嬌媚景色，因此他們更能從鄉間美景中獲得一份意外的樂趣。
I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton, and applying, it to myself，when I observed to the windward of me a black cloud, falling to the earth in long trails of rain, which made me betake myself for shelter to a house saw at a little distance from the place where I was walking.
正當我獨自品味著彌爾頓的詩句時，忽然發現迎面飄來一團烏云，剎那間綿長的雨絲急墜而下。我趕忙起身，舉目四望，向不遠處的一座農合跑去。
As I sat in the porch, I heard the voices of two or three persons, who seemed very earnest in discourse.
當我坐在門廊中時，聽到兩三個人談話的聲音。他們似乎正在十分認真地爭論著什么。
My curiosity was raised when I heard the names of Alexander the Great and Artaxerxes;and as their talk seemed to run on ancient heroes, I concluded there could not be any secret in it;for which reason thought I might very fairly listen to what they said.
聽他們提到亞歷山大大帝和阿塔克西斯的名字，我的好奇心立即被吸引了出來。因為他們爭論的好像是古代英雄和偉人，我想里面應該不會有任何秘密。想到這兒，我想或許可以仔細地聽一下他們的談話。
After several parallels between great men, which appeared to me altogether groundless and chimerical, I was surprised to hear one say, that he valued the Black Prince more than the Duke of Venoms.
他們先是比較了幾個偉人。在我看來，這種比較根本毫無根據，純屬虛構。我十分詫異地聽到其中一個人說，他認為黑色王子遠比旺多姆公爵好得多。
How Duke of Vendos should become a rival of Black Prince, I couldn't conceive.
旺多姆公爵和黑色王子怎么能作比較呢？我感到非常不解。
