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First Snow 第一场雪 　　作 者 简 介 　　吉丽安?道格拉斯 （1900～1993），加拿大作家。同时也是摄影记者、历史学家和政治活动家。她的诗歌、散文、小说和自传等作品，描写了时间跨度近八十年的光阴岁月里的生活经历。她的作品集有《我所漫步的河流》（River For My Sidewalk， 1953）、《宁静是我的故乡：梯尔河生活记》（Silence Is My Homeland： Life on Teal River， 1978）和《守护之所》（The Protected Place， 1979）。 　　One evening I look out the window of my room， and there are soft flakes （碎片；薄片） falling slowly in the golden lamplight. They fall all night， while the voice of the river becomes more and more hushed （寂静的） and the noises of the forest die away. By dawn， the whole world of stream and wood and mountain has been covered by a white flame of beauty. 　　有一天晚上，我从屋子的窗口往外看，看见柔软的雪花缓缓地飘进了金黄的灯光之中。雪下了一整夜，同时，奔腾的河水愈发沉寂下来，森林的喧嚣也渐渐消失了。黎明前，小溪、树林与山所在的整个世界就已经被白雪覆盖，泛着一片美丽的白光。 　　I go out in the early morning and there is such silence that even breath is abrupt （突兀的；鲁莽的）. The mountain to the north has a steel-blue light on it， and to the west the sky still holds the darkness of the night. To the east and the south a faint （微弱的） pink is spreading to the sky. I look up and see the morning star keeping watching over the white world. 　　清晨，我走出去，外面是如此安静，甚至连呼吸的声音都会破坏这份宁静。北边的小山岭披上了青色的光芒，而西边的天空还残留着夜色。东方和南方，一片淡淡的粉红色正在逐渐浸透整个天空。我抬头仰望，头顶的晨星正俯看着这个白色的世界。 　　Soon the whole azure （蔚蓝色） sky is burning. Every branch of every tree is weighted with cold and stillness； every fallen log is overlaid （覆盖） with silver. The stark （光秃秃的） roots of hemlocks （铁杉） and cedars （雪松） have become all sorts of amazing sculptures （雕塑）. 　　不一会儿，蔚蓝的天空就像火焰般染成了一片红色。严寒和静谧重重地压在每棵树的每个枝头，每根断枝都被银色覆盖。铁杉和雪松光秃秃的树根已经变成了各种千奇百怪的雕塑。 　　After heavy snowfalls， it is the evergreens that are the loveliest， with their great white branches weighted down until they are almost parallel （平行） with the trunks. They seem like giant birds with their wings folded against the cold. 　　一场大雪过后，最美的就是这些常青树了。被积雪压弯的白色树枝垂挂在树干上，如同一只为抵御严寒而合拢翅膀的巨鸟。 　　But after a light fall，it is the deciduous （每年落叶的） trees that are the most beautiful. They are so fragile and so ethereal （飘渺的） that it seems even the