古大叔小木屋（70）瓦尔登湖第四章 声音（11）

2021年8月9日星期一 古大叔小木屋（70）直播现场录制 私人定制 时间：晚间9:00——10:00 汉英文本 Walden [ˈwɔldən] (Issue70) 4. Sounds(11) [14] Now that the cars are gone by and all the restless world with them, and the fishes in the pond no longer feel their rumbling[ˈrʌmblɪŋ], I am more alone than ever. For the rest of the long afternoon, perhaps, my meditations are interrupted only by the faint rattle of a carriage[ˈkærɪdʒ] or team/ along the distant highway. [15] Sometimes, on Sundays, I heard the bells, the Lincoln, Acton[ˈæktən], Bedford, or Concord bell, when the wind was favorable, a faint, sweet, and, as it were, natural melody, worth importing into the wilderness. At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory[ˈvaɪbrətərɪ] hum[hʌm], as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp[haːp] which it swept. All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration[vaɪˈbreɪʃən] of the universal[ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsl] lyre[laɪə], just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure[ˈeɪʒʊə] tint it imparts to it. There came to me in this case a melody which the air had strained, and which had conversed[ˈkɒnvɜːs] with every leaf and needle of the wood, that portion of the sound which the elements had taken up and modulated and echoed from vale[veɪl] to vale. The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph[nɪmf]. 现在那些车厢过去了，连同那动荡的世界，湖里的鱼儿再也感不到它的隆隆，我比以前更加孤独。因为一个漫长的下午其他时间，也许，我的冥想仅仅被远处公路上的四轮马车或马车微弱的咯咯声打断。 有时候在星期天，我听到钟声，/来自林肯郡，艾克顿，或康科德的钟声，如果风向适合，一种和往常一样微弱、甜美、自然的旋律，正值得输入荒野。在足够远的距离在树林的上空，这声响是得到某种震荡的哼鸣，仿佛是地平线上的松针变成一把竖琴的琴弦，钟声从上面扫过。所有的声响从最可能远的距离听到/都会产生一种或同样效果，一种宇宙竖琴的震动，恰如同一个遥远的大地的弓背/通过介于其间的空气，为我们那兴味盎然的眼睛/把蔚蓝的色彩传递。现在到来的就是这种情况，这旋律被空气伸张，已经和树林里的每一枚松针和每一片树叶交流，那本音已经被吸收和协调成和声/在山谷间回响。///这回声从某种程度是一种原始的声音，其中含着魔法和魅力。它不光是重复钟声里值得重复的部分，而且部分的也是森林的声音；一个森林女神的轻歌曼舞和喃喃细语。