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(点击右边黑三角下拉有中英配文）
"Turbaria Bruaria"--the right of cutting heath-turf—occurs in charters relating to the district. "Overgrown with heth and mosse," says Leland of the same dark sweep of country.
采掘泥炭的权利——“徐巴瑞阿-布露阿瑞阿”——也载在有关这块地方的特许书上。利兰德提到这一大片郁苍绵连的荒原，也说它“灌莽渺茫，荆榛遍地”。
Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape--far-reaching proofs productive of genuine satisfaction. The untameable, Ishmaelitish thing that Egdon now was it always had been.
这些关于风物的记载，至少都把事实明明白白地说了出来——给了我们深切着明的证据，令我们真正满意。现在爱敦这种不受锄犁、见弃人世的光景，也就是它从太古以来老没改变的情况。
Civilization was its enemy; and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil
had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation. In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.
一个人，穿着颜色和样式都时髦的衣服，跑到荒原上去，总显得有些不伦不类。大地的服装既是这样原始，我们仿佛也得穿顶古老、顶质朴的衣服才对。
A person on a heath in raiment of modern cut and colours has more or less an anomalous look. We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive.
文明就是它的对头；从有草木那天起，它的土壤就穿上了这件老旧的棕色衣服了；这本是那种特别地层上自然生成。老不更换的服饰。它永远只穿着这样一件令人起敬的衣裳，好像对于人类在服装方面那样争妍斗俏含有讥笑的意味。
To recline on a stump of thorn in the central valley of Egdon, between afternoon and night, as now, where the eye could reach nothing of the world outside the sumits and shoulders of heathland which filled the whole circumference of its glance, and to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, g@ve ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.
在从下午到黑夜那段时间里，就像现在说的这样，跑到爱敦荒原的中心山谷，倚在一棵棘树的残株上面，举目看来，外面的景物，一样也看不见，只有荒丘芜阜，四面环列，同时知道，地上地下，周围一切，都像天上的星辰一样，从有史以前一直到现在，就丝毫没生变化，那时候，我们那种随着人间世事的变幻而漂泊无着的感觉、面对无法压伏的新异而骚动不宁的心情，就得到安定，有所寄托。
The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour.
这一块没经侵扰的广大地区，有一种自古以来永久不变的性质，连大海都不能跟它相比。谁能指出一片海洋来，说它古远长久？日光把它蒸腾，月华把它荡漾，它的面貌一年一样，一天一样，一时一刻一样。
The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained. Those surfaces were neither so steep as to be destructible by weather, nor so flat as to be the victims of floods and deposits.
沧海改易，桑田变迁，江河湖泽、村落人物，全有消长，但是爱敦荒原，却一直没有变化。它的地面，既不是峻陡得要受风吹雷震；又不是平衍得要受水冲泥淤。
With the exception of an aged highway,and a still more aged barrow presently to be referred to--themselves almost crystallized to natural products by long continuance--even the trifling irregularities were not caused by pickaxe, plough, or spade, but remained as the very finger-touches of the last geological change.
除去一条古老的大道，和就要提到的一座更古老的古冢——古道和古冢，也因为一直没变，差不多成了两种天然产物了——就是地面上极细极小的高低凹凸，也全不是犁、耙、锹、镐的工作，都只是最近一次地质变化的抟弄揉搓，原模原样一直保留到现在。
The above-mentioned highway tr@versed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. In many portions of its course it overlaid an old vicinal way, which branched from the great Western road of the Romans, the Via Iceniana, or Ikenild Street, hard by.
上面提过的那条大道，在荒原比较低平的那一部分上，从天边这一头儿一直横贯到天边那一头儿。原来罗马时代的西方大道伊乞尼阿路（也叫伊铿尼勒路）分出一条支路来，从附近经过；我们刚才说的那条大道，有许多部分，就铺在这条罗马支路的旧址上面。
On the evening under consideration it would h@ve been noticed that, though the gloom had increased sufficiently to confuse the minor features of the heath, the white surface of the road remained almost as clear as ever.
那一天黄昏的时候，虽然暮色越来越暗，把荒原上细微的地势弄得模糊不清，但是白漫漫的大道，却差不多还和先前一样地明显。
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