中英对照英国散文欣赏(一)
（编者注：以下中英对照英国散文选段摘自杨自伍编的《英国散文名篇欣赏》，其中有些译文编者根据自己所好重新作了翻译，目的一是让年轻人知道有这么本好书，也许他们会自己找来阅读；二是让成天钻在英语考题中的初三至高三的同学们了解到：英语中原来还有这么美好的东西，远比他们的练习题和考卷有趣。文章后面摘录的英语单词，只须按一下电子辞典就明白了。）
1. I went out in the afternoon. It was too early in the year for a heavy fall of leaves, but nevertheless the garden was covered. They were washed to the sides of the roads, and lay heaped up over the road-gratings, masses of gorgeous harmonies in red, brown, and yellow. The chestnuts and acorns dropped in showers, and the patter on the gravel was a little weird. The chestnut husks split wide open when they came to the ground, revealing the polished brown of the shy fruit.
(nevertheless, gorgeous, harmony, weird, reveal, polish)
这天下午我信步出门。还不到一年中落叶纷飞的季节，花园却已被枯叶覆盖。它们被雨水冲到路边，堆积在阴沟格栅上，红色的，褐色的，黄色的，一堆堆，一丛丛，既绚丽多彩，又和谐悦目。橡实雨点般纷纷坠下，嗒嗒地拍打在鹅卵石上，给人一种神秘感。栗子的外壳在撞击在地面上时完全绽裂开来，露出油光光羞答答的褐色果肉。
2. I went a little further up the hill: a flock of about fifty sheep were crossing from a field on one si
（编者注：以下中英对照英国散文选段摘自杨自伍编的《英国散文名篇欣赏》，其中有些译文编者根据自己所好重新作了翻译，目的一是让年轻人知道有这么本好书，也许他们会自己找来阅读；二是让成天钻在英语考题中的初三至高三的同学们了解到：英语中原来还有这么美好的东西，远比他们的练习题和考卷有趣。文章后面摘录的英语单词，只须按一下电子辞典就明白了。）
1. I went out in the afternoon. It was too early in the year for a heavy fall of leaves, but nevertheless the garden was covered. They were washed to the sides of the roads, and lay heaped up over the road-gratings, masses of gorgeous harmonies in red, brown, and yellow. The chestnuts and acorns dropped in showers, and the patter on the gravel was a little weird. The chestnut husks split wide open when they came to the ground, revealing the polished brown of the shy fruit.
(nevertheless, gorgeous, harmony, weird, reveal, polish)
这天下午我信步出门。还不到一年中落叶纷飞的季节，花园却已被枯叶覆盖。它们被雨水冲到路边，堆积在阴沟格栅上，红色的，褐色的，黄色的，一堆堆，一丛丛，既绚丽多彩，又和谐悦目。橡实雨点般纷纷坠下，嗒嗒地拍打在鹅卵石上，给人一种神秘感。栗子的外壳在撞击在地面上时完全绽裂开来，露出油光光羞答答的褐色果肉。
2. I went a little further up the hill: a flock of about fifty sheep were crossing from a field on one si