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Wisdom of Bear Wood
熊樹林的智慧
Michael Welzenbach
邁克爾·韋爾岑巴赫
When I was 12 years old, my family moved to England, the fourth major move in my short life. My father's government job demanded that he go overseas every few years, so I was used to wrenching myself away from friends.
我12歲那年，我們?nèi)野岬接⒏裉m，那是在我當時短短人生中的第四次大搬家。我父親在政府部門供職，他的工作要求他每隔幾年就要到國外去，因此我已經(jīng)習慣了不得不與朋友離別的痛苦。
We rented an 18th-century farmhouse in Berkshire. Nearby were ancient castles and churches. Loving nature, however, I was most delighted by the endless patchwork of farms and woodland that surrounded our house. In the deep woods that verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost everywhere, and pheasants rocketed off into the dense laurels ahead as you walked.
在伯克郡我們租了一所建于18世紀的農(nóng)舍。附近有古堡和教堂。然而出于熱愛自然的天性，最讓我高興的是我家周圍那無邊無際、相互交錯的農(nóng)場和林地。我家后院籬笆外是一大片樹林，林中交錯的小路四通八達；當你走在這些小路上時，受驚的雉雞會疾速飛進茂密的月桂樹叢中。
I spent most of my time roaming the woods and fields alone, playing Robin Hood, daydreaming, collecting bugs and bird-watching. It was heaven for a boy—but a lonely heaven. Keeping to myself was my way of not forming attachments that I would only have to abandon the next time we moved. But one day I became attached through no design of my own.
我大部分時間都是一個人在樹林和田野間游玩，假扮羅賓漢，做白日夢，捉昆蟲，觀察鳥兒。這是男孩的天堂，但卻是孤獨的天堂。我獨來獨往，不和別人建立特別親密的關(guān)系，這樣就可以避免再次搬家時受與朋友離別之苦。然而有一天，我卻意外地和一個人成了朋友。
