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The trees stood motionless and white like figures in a marble frieze. There was no odour of pine-needles. The rays of the sun fell upon the trees, so that the twigs sparkled like diamonds and dropped in showers when we touched them. So dazzling was the light, it penetrated even the darkness that veils my eyes.
松樹一動不動地靜靜矗立著，掛滿積雪的樹身就像毛茸茸的未經加工的大理石；林子里聞不到松針的味道，陽光灑落在林間，只要輕輕一碰，小樹枝上的積雪就像寶石雨一樣紛紛墜落。那晶瑩剔透的光線是如此炫目，甚至能穿透蒙在我眼睛上的黑面紗。
As the days wore on, the drifts gradually shrunk, but before they were wholly gone another storm came, so that I scarcely felt the earth under my feet once all winter. At intervals the trees lost their icy covering, and the bulrushes and underbrush were bare; but the lake lay frozen and hard beneath the sun.
隨著時間的推移，積雪也漸漸融化了。在另一次風暴尚未來臨之前，我幾乎感覺不到腳下正踩著嚴冬的土地。在這短暫的寧靜時刻，樹木丟棄了披在身上的冰衣，蘆葦和草叢露出了身形，只有陽光下的冰湖展示著冬日的美景。
Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!
我們最喜愛的冬季娛樂活動是滑雪橇。湖岸突兀地躍出水面，我們跨過陡峭的斜坡下到湖面；坐上了雪橇，一個小男孩會用力從后面一推，我們就嗖地滑了出去！雪橇穿過積雪，越過凹坑，猛地沖向湖心。最后，我們會穿過晶瑩閃爍的冰面直到對岸。這是多么有趣、多么瘋狂的游戲啊！記得有一次，在那狂野、興奮的一刻，雪橇上的防護鎖鏈啪地折斷了，于是，我們的手緊緊地握在了一起，伴隨著耳邊的疾風，我們覺得自己就像駕云飛翔的神靈！
