2021/4/10

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（英）洛根·皮爾索爾·史密斯 著

THE WHEAT:

TheVicar, whom I met once or twice in my walks about the fields, told me that he was glad that I was taking an interest in farming. Only myfeeling about wheat, he said, puzzled him.

Now the feelingin regard towheatwhich I had not been able to make clear to the Vicar, was simply one of amazement. Walking one day into a field that I had watched yellowing beyond the trees, I was dazzled by the glow and great expanse of gold. I bathed myself in theintenseyellow under the intense blue sky;? how itdimmedthe oak tees andcopsesand all the rest of the English ascape I had not remembered .

the?glory?ofthe?Wheat;?nor?imagined?in?my?reading?that?in?a?countyso?far?from?the?Sun,?there?could,?be?anything?so?rich,?soprodigal,so?reckless,?as?thisopulenceof ruddy gold, bursting out from the cracked earth as from somefieryvein beneath. I remembered how for,thousands of years Wheat had beenthe staple of,wealth, the hoarded wealth of famous cities and empires; I thought of the processes of corn-growing, the white oxenploughing, the great barns, the winnowing fans,he mills with the splash of their wheels, orarms slow-turning inthe wing,of cornfieds at harvest-time, with shocks and sheaves in theglow of sunset, or under the sickle moon;what beauty it brought into the northern landscape, theantiaue, passionate, Bibical beauty of the South!

摘錄詞匯：

Vicar: 牧師

in regard to：關(guān)于

wheat：解釋

intense：強烈的

dim：昏暗的，adj/v

copse：森林

prodigal：浪費，adj/n

opulence：富裕

fiery：火熱的

the staple of：主食

plough：耕地

antiaue：古老的

拓展：

THE?COMING?OF?FATE：

When?I?seek?out?the?sources?of?my?thoughts,?I?find?they?had?theirbeginning?in?fragile?Chance;?were?born?of?litle?moments?that?shine?for?mecuriously?in?the?past.

Slight?the?impulse?that?made,?me?take?this?turning?atthe?cross-roads,?trivial?and?fortuitous?the?meeting,?and?light?as?gossamerthe?thread?that?first?knit?me?to?my?friend.?These?are?full?of?wonder;?moremysterious?are?the?moments?that?must?have?brushed?me?with?their?wingsand?passed?me?by:?when?Fate?beckoned?and?I?did?not?see?it,?when?new?Lifetrembled?for?a?second?on?the?threshold;?but?the?word?was?not?spoken,?thehand?was?not?held?out,?and?the?Might-havebeen?shivered?and?vanished,dim?as?a?dream,?into?the?waste?realms?of?non-existence.

So?I?never?lose?a?sense?of?the?whimsical?and?perilous?charm?of?daílylif,?with?its?meetings?and?words?and?acdents.?Why,today,perhaps,or?next?week,?I?may?hear?a?voice,?and,?packing?up?my?Gladstone?bag,follow?it?to?the?ends?of?the?world.

記錄日期｜2021/4/10