In this hot weather I like to walk at times amid the full glow of the sun. Our island sun is never hot beyond endurance, and there is a magnificence in the triumph of high summer which exalts one's mind. Among streets it is hard to bear, yet even there, for those who have eyes to see it, the splendour of the sky lends beauty to things in themselves mean or hideous. I remember an August bank holiday, when, having for some reason to walk all across London, I unexpectedly found myself enjoying the strange desertion of great streets, and from that passed to surprise in the sense of something beautiful, a charm in the vulgar vista, in the dull architecture, which I had never known. Deep and clear-marked shadows, such as one only sees on a few days of summer, are in themselves very impressive, and become more so when they fall upon highways devoid of folk. I remember observing, as something new, the shape of familiar edifices, of spires, monuments. And when at length I sat down somewhere on the embankment, it was rather to gaze at leisure than to rest, for I felt no weariness, and the sun, still pouring upon me its noontide radiance, seemed to fill my veins with life.
That sense I shall never know again. For me nature has comforts, raptures, but no more invigoration. The sun keeps me alive, but cannot, as in the old days, renew my being. I would fain learn to enjoy without reflecting.
在这样热的天气里，我有时喜欢在炽烈的阳光下漫步。在这个岛上,太阳的热度从不会超出人的忍耐限度;盛夏骄阳无限壮美,令我们异常兴奋。街道上常令人难以忍受,但即使在那里,对于那些善于发现美的眼睛来说,平凡丑陋的东西也会因天空的光辉灿烂而平添了几分魅力。记得在一个八月的公共假日里,我为了某些事务行走于伦敦的街道上,没想到自己竟然被大街上那种特别的荒凉景象所吸引,进而惊异地体验到了一种美感,并前所未有地在平凡的街景和呆滞的建筑物中感受到了非凡的魅力。那种深邃且轮廓清晰的阴影只有在夏天的少数日子里才能看得到,因而使人印象深刻,而当它们投映在无人的大街上时,则更加令人难忘。我记得当时的我就像在看什么新鲜事物一样,观看着那些熟悉的大厦、尖顶和纪念碑。后来,我干脆在堤坝上找了个地方坐下来，与其说我是在休息,不如说我是想要更悠闲地欣赏这样的景象。我丝毫不感到疲惫;太阳将正午的光辉洒在我的身上,似乎在我的血脉里注人了无限的生命力。
这样的感觉一去不返。大自然会赐予我舒适和狂喜,但再不会给我充沛的精力了。太阳维持着我的生命,但无法像旧日那样令其焕然一新了。我只得学会如何不加深思地享受生活。
My walk in the golden hours leads me to a great horse-chestnut, whose root offers a convenient seat in the shadow of its foliage. At that resting-place I have no wide view before me, but what I see is enough --- a corner of waste land, over-flowered with poppies and charlock, on the edge of a field of com. The brilliant red and yellow harmonize with the glory of the day. Near by, too, is a hedge covered with great white blooms of the bindweed. My eyes do not soon grow weary.
A little plant of which I am very fond is the restharrow. When the sun is hot upon it, the flower gives forth a strangely aromatic scent, very delightful to me. I know the cause of this peculiar pleasure. The restharrow sometimes grows in sandy ground above the seashore. In my childhood I have many a time lain in such a spot under the glowing sky, and though I scarce thought of it, perceived the odour of the little rose-pink flower when it touched my face. Now I have but to smell it, and those hours come back again. I see the shore of Cumberland, running north to St. Bee's Head; on the sea horizon a faint shape which is the Isle of Man; inland, the mountains, which for me at that time guarded a region of unknown wonder. Ah, how long ago!
这阳光灿烂的时刻的漫步,将我引领到一棵巨大的七叶树旁，它的根为我在树荫下提供了一个方便的座位。在那个休息的地方并没有开阔的视野，但我对于所看到的一切已经非常满意了一一玉米地边缘的一隅荒地上铺满了罂粟花和野芥子花，那一片灿烂的红色与黄色与白昼的光辉交相辉映;旁边竖着一道树篱,一朵朵白色的旋花几乎将其完全覆盖。这景象真令人百看不厌。
我非常喜欢一种叫做芒柄花的小巧植物。当炽热的阳光照耀着这种花的时候，它们就会散发出一种奇异的芬芳,令人心旷神怡。我知道这种特殊的喜悦源自何处。海边的沙滩上有时也长有芒柄花,童年时,有许多次，我曾在阳光灿烂的天空下躺在这样的地方,尽管我很少会想起这种花,但每当它那玫瑰红色的花瓣碰触到我的脸庞时,我就会嗅到它的香味。现在,只要一闻到它的那种芳香,我便仿佛又回到了往日的那些美好时光里。我看到了向北一直延伸至圣比海德的坎伯兰郡海岸;海平线上有一片隐约的土地,那就是海恩岛;内陆的群山那时在我看来,仿佛是在守卫着一处未知的神奇之地。啊，那已经是多么通远的事了!
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