5．5. 2　Scene Description景色描写

5．5. 2　Scene Description景色描写

It was she who had stopped the car where the common rose steeply to the left，and a narrow strip of larch and beech，with here and there a pine，stretched out to the right，towards the valley between the road and the first long high hill of the full moor．She was looking for a place where they might lunch，for Ashurst never looked for anything; and this，between the golden furze and the feathery green larches smelling of lemons in the last sun of April—this，with a view into the deep valley and up to the long moor heights，seems fitting to the decisive nature of one who sketched in water-colors，and loved romantic spots．Grasping her paint box，she got out．(excerpt from The Apple Tree by British writer John Galsworthy)

正是她叫车停了下来。这儿，左边但见那块公有地陡峭地向上升起，右边是狭狭的一溜落叶松和山毛榉林子，还疏疏落落地长着几棵松树，直向介于公路和整个荒原上的第一座又长又高的山岗中间的山谷伸展过去。她在寻找一个可以让他们坐下来吃东西的地方，艾舍斯特是什么也不寻找的;而现在这个地方，处于金黄的金雀花和在四月的斜阳里散发着柠檬味儿的绿色蓬松的落叶松之间，可以眺望深深的山谷，仰望长长的荒原群丘，似乎适合一个热爱奇景异迹的水彩画家的有决定意义的天性。拿起画箱，她跨出车来。

Comments: Our first impression of this passage is of a meticulously detailed setting of the scene．The description is clearly etched，so that we can reconstruct，in our mind＇s eyes，the whole topography．But more than this，we have a vivid sense of the loneliness of the human observer，set apart from the surroundings“where the common rose steeply to the left，and a narrow strip of larch and beech，with here and there a pine，stretched out to the right，towards the valley between the road and the first long high hill of the full moor．”Furthermore，the scene is detailedly described that“this，between the golden furze and the feathery green larches smelling of lemons in the last sun of April—this，with a view into the deep valley and up to the long moor heights，seems fitting to the decisive nature of one who sketched in water-colors，and loved romantic spots．”Additionally，quite long sentences are suitably used to describe a scene，and the effect of the placing the shorter sentence at the end is powerful: whereas other sentences relate the setting to the observer，the last one relates the observer to the setting，and thereby summarizes what has been implied