最美的情書

I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises, on land where it floods forest and mountains with honey-colored light, at sea where it rises and sets like a blood orange in a multi-colored nest of cloud, slipping in and out of the vast ocean.

我曾見過千番日出和日落。大地上的森林與高山被鍍上一層蜜色光澤，在它升落的海面，好似五彩云團里的一顆血橙出沒不止，在那浩瀚汪洋間。

I have seen a thousand moons: harvest moons like gold coins; winter moons as white as ice chips; new moons like baby swan's feathers.

我見過千般月色。滿月好似金幣，冬日寒月白如冰屑，新月宛如雛天鵝的絨羽。

I have seen seas as smooth as if painted, colored like shot silk or blue as a kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously.

我曾見過大海靜謐如畫。色似錦緞，或藍如翠羽，或通透似玻璃，或烏色泛褶出泡沫，洶涌得沉重又狠惡。

I have felt winds straight from theSouth Pole, bleak and wailing like a lost child; winds as tender and warm as a lover's breath; winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of seaweeds; winds that carried the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a million flowers; fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast; or winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten.

我曾感受過風，凜冽自南極而來，刺骨哀嚎，仿佛迷途的小孩。風，溫柔和煦如愛人的呼吸;風，承載著鹽與海藻湮滅的咸澀;風，充盈著森林土壤的氣息，溫潤肥沃，芬芳，自百萬花朵。狂風蹈海，如同發了酵起了沫，又或風驅著水波拍岸，貓咪輕撲一般。

I have known silence: the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; the implacable stony silence of a deep cave; the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotized and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun; the silence when great music ends.

我曾知悉靜默。那在一眼新井里的靜默，冷冽且夾著泥土氣味，深邃洞穴中的靜默，冷酷決絕;酷熱迷離，正午的靜默，萬物被當空烈日催眠，平息而至靜默;靜默，當天籟終了時。

I have heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones.

我曾聽夏日蟬嘶，那聲聲如芒刺骨。

I have heard tree frogs in an orchestration as complicated as Bach, singing in a forest lit by a million emerald fireflies.

我曾聽樹蛙在林中詠唱，復雜嚴謹儼如巴赫，翠綠螢火蟲為之燃起百萬點亮光。

I have seen Whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea, creating a Versailles of fountain with their breath.

我見過鯨魚，黝似瀝青，襯著矢車菊般藍藍的大海，他們一呼一吸之間，筑起凡爾賽的噴泉。

I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun irons their wings smooth.

我見過蝴蝶破繭時危坐，顫栗著，任由陽光把鱗翼熨平。

I have watched tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.

我見過虎，好似烈焰，在長草深處交歡。

I have been dive-bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as a Devil's hoof.

我曾被憤怒的渡鴉俯沖轟炸，玄青浮光，似魔鬼之蹄。

I have lain in water warm as milk, softas silk, while around me played a host of Dolphins.

我曾躺在溫潤如奶、柔滑如絲的水中，以客道迎待周遭的海豚。

I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things. All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of one minute of your company, for your laugh, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips, body, and above all for your sweet, ever-surprising mind which is an enchanting quarry in which it is my privilege to delve.

我遇過千種生靈，見過千般絕妙的事情。這一切曾經，沒與你攜手，于我盡是枉過。這一切將歷，有你在左右，于我便為收獲。這一切所有，我愿放棄，只為換取你一分鐘的相伴，換你的笑語、你的聲音，換你明眸、秀發、朱唇、玉體，最重要的，換你那美妙而幾可驚嘆的心智，那迷人的寶藏，唯有我一人，有權探究。

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