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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
從奧米勒斯城出走的人
URSULA LE GUIN
烏爾蘇拉勒吉恩
WITH a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea.
隨著一陣響徹云霄的鐘聲的敲響，一群燕子驚得展翅高翔，白塔映日的海濱城市奧米勒斯迎來了她的夏慶節。
The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags.
港灣里停泊的船只的纜索上都飄揚著鮮艷奪目的彩旗。
In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved.
市區的大街小巷上，一支支游行隊伍穿過街道兩旁那一排排紅頂彩漆墻面的房屋，穿過一座座長滿青苔的古老庭園，走過一條條林蔭大道，一座座公園和公共建筑，迤邐而行。
Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and grey, grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their babies and chatting as they walked.
游行隊伍有的顯得十分文雅莊重，其參加者或是一些身著紫衣灰袍的老者，或是一些沉郁肅穆的工人師傅，或是一些文文靜靜、歡歡喜喜的婦女，她們抱著孩子，邊走邊聊天。
In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance.
另外一些游行隊伍的情形卻迥然不同：那兒奏著歡快的音樂，鑼鼓喧天，游行的人們一路上載歌載舞。
Children dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows' crossing flights over the music and the singing.
成群的小孩在隊伍中興高采烈地穿來穿去，他們的歡叫聲像高翔于空中的燕子的嗚叫聲一樣，蓋過游行隊伍的鼓樂聲和歌唱聲。
All the processions wound towards the north side of the city, where on the great water-meadow called the Green Fields boys and girls, naked in the bright air, with mud-stained feet and ankles and long, lithe arms, exercised their restive horses before the race.
所有游行隊伍都沿著蜿蜒曲折的街道迤邐向北行進，來到一個稱作綠野的大草坪上。草坪上早有一些光著身子、腳踝沾滿泥巴、手臂長大而靈活的青年男女在那兒對他們的劣馬進行賽前訓練。
