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293 【The Waves】A breeze rose; a shiver ran through the leaves; and thus stirred they lost their brown density and became grey or white as the tree shifted its mass, winked and lost its domed uniformity. -- by Virginia Woolf

-- 一阵风吹过，看树和树叶的变化。。

romanticlady

银灰色？

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原帖由 romanticlady 于 2012-3-29 12:56 发表
银灰色？

是啊，银灰色比银白色对。。一个蓝色的花，在阴影下，变成银灰色？。。我向来对颜色不敏感。。有时候蓝绿都讲不清楚。。

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294 【The Waves】As if there were waves of darkness in the air, darkness moved on, covering houses, hills, trees, as waves of water wash round the sides of some sunken ship. Darkness washed down streets, eddying round single figures, engulfing them; blotting out couples clasped under the showery darkness of elm trees in full summer foliage. Darkness rolled its waves along grassy rides and over the wrinkled skin of the turf, enveloping the solitary thorn tree and the empty snail shells at its foot. Mounting higher, darkness blew along the bare upland slopes, and met the fretted and abraded pinnacles of the mountain where the snow lodges for ever on the hard rock even when the valleys are full of running streams and yellow vine leaves, and girls, sitting on verandahs, look up at the snow, shading their faces with their fans. Them, too, darkness covered. -- by Virginia Woolf

-- 看他如何描写黑暗。。黑暗，波浪，潮水，洗涤，吹，淹没。。

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295 【The Waves】'Drop upon drop,' said Bernard, 'silence falls. It forms on the roof of the mind and falls into pools beneath. For ever alone, alone, alone,-- hear silence fall and sweep its rings to the farthest edges. Gorged and replete, solid with middle-aged content, I, whom loneliness destroys, let silence fall, drop by drop.' -- by Virginia Woolf

-- "一任阶前点滴到天明"??

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296 【Greenwich Village Ballers】This child, it should be pointed out, was in her early teens, a completely selfish and spoiled brat -- as was so typical and common for an only child -- and ruled her parents like the perfect little tyrant that she was, getting anything and everything she wanted out of them, and making sure that they had severe anxiety over her general welfare at all times. -- by Alice Lanvin.

-- 这个是中国独生子女的真实写照。。 -- i figure there are many of them swarming around this website, from what i have observed and experienced since I had laid my light steps over this place. their overall lack of respect to other people's contribution, their appalling communicational proficiency were just typical and hopeless.. it is like a sort of poison, cultivated by the typical spoiling Chinese parents, finding its way to a foreigh country like Australia, and unfortunately plagued a good-willed forum like this.

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297 【Voices in Summer】Daphne was interested only in men. That was the way she had been made, that was the way she would be even if she lived to be ninety. She came to life only if there was a man in the room, and if she did not have some current admirer tucked up her sleeve, to take her out for little luncheons or to telephone her in the morning after Tom (her husband) had gone to work, then life had lost all meaning and she became snappish and despondent. -- by Rosamunde Pilcher.


-- 中文里所说的的‘花痴’？some of you may have taken some speculative and curious assumption of me being the sort of man in the similiar shoes of this above Daphne, probably coming from bits and pieces of my 'coarse' posts and 'erotic' comments around here. I admire, and by the same measure stand amused with, the dilligent mental workings of you. The only difference between me and many of you, i reckon, etches somewhere on the surface of skin, beneath which the same fluctuations of the same sorts never cease its flushing and running ... forgive me of my so saying, forgive me if you happen to be one of those pure angels... a life needs blood, which is not all the clean, to claim its existence; if one has only water, then he is arealdy drowned dead, even as if he is still moving, it is more by the force of the killing water, rather than by his own power of heart...

ECLF408

romanticlady

国外也有这样的孩子吗？

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原帖由 romanticlady 于 2012-4-1 20:02 发表
国外也有这样的孩子吗？

应该有的，只是没那么普遍。。

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298 【Voices in Summer】She gave a little cry of pain, holding up her hand to inspect the damage. From the tiny anonizing wound blood swelled. A dot of blood, a bead, a trickle. She watched its progress, a miniature scarlet river, flowing down into the palm of her hand. -- by Rosamunde Pilcher.

-- 血流成河。。

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romanticlady

这段掌上流血的描述太生动了！今天没分了，明天补上。:)

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299 【Night and Day】It's life that matters, nothing but life--the process of discovering --the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself at all.  - by Virginia Woolf


-- 这种生命会不会太幸苦？-- life should naturally lead its way upon different living stages, as when our sensuous faculty exerts itself variably to various stimulating power....all discoveries, no matter how striking and impressive, depend on the sensitivity of our organs..  We can't alter the diminishing course of our life, which is destined and eventually vanished, no matter how strong we wish to pluck up our wills to do so.

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300 【Night and Day】"All this money-making and working ten hours a day in an office, what's it FOR? When one's a boy, you see, one's head is so full of dreams that it doesn't seem to matter what one does. And if you're ambitious, you're all right; you've got a reason for going on. Now my reasons ceased to satisfy me. Perhaps I never had any. That's very likely now I come to think of it. (What reason is there for anything, though?) Still, it's impossible, after a certain age, to take oneself in satisfactorily. And I know what carried me on"--for a good reason now occurred to him--"I wanted to be the savior of my family and all that kind of thing. I wanted them to get on in the world. That was a lie, of course--a kind of self-glorification, too. Like most people, I suppose, I've lived almost entirely among delusions, and now I'm at the awkward stage of finding it out. I want another delusion to go on with. That's what my unhappiness amounts to, Mary."   - by Virginia Woolf

-- 'I want another delusion to go on with.' 从幻觉到另一个幻觉，所以生命终究是没有意义的，-- NND，我想骂人。。。

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301 【Greenwich Village Ballers】The earthquake started to erupt! A million little snakes all seemed to become alive at once. They all began to slither and dance -- to convulse and twist, squirm and thresh -- with ever more animation and fervor. Then the top of the proverbial volcano erupted in all of its hot, titanic fury, emitting a greyer-like spurt with incredible velocity and force. Mona felt as if the very Earth was sliding away from under her. Then, as that first whip-like stream lashed and hit her flush in the face, she felt as if the lid of a tea-kettle had been blown off and was thrust up, up, up -- all the way up into the air -- to the very ceiling! Mona opened her mouth wide so that the ensuing geyserlike jet-streams would go right into it. And as they did so, she greedily licked and lapped at the anturally incoming maiden-juise. -- by Alice Lanvin.

-- 一个简单的性事，非得要描写的如此壮烈。。any way, hope it would add a bit of spice into your Easter life..or probably not spice but a course of repulsivenss, either way would refresh your sense of feeling and your day is done with an impression..

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302 【Night and Day】

"I was wrong to get engaged to you. I shall never make you happy. I have never loved you."

"Katharine!" he protested.

"No, never," she repeated obstinately. "Not rightly. Don't you see, I didn't know what I was doing?"

"You love some one else?" he cut her short.

"Absolutely no one."

"Henry?" he demanded.

"Henry? I should have thought, William, even you--"

"There is some one," he persisted. "There has been a change in the last few weeks. You owe it to me to be honest, Katharine."

"If I could, I would," she replied.

"Why did you tell me you would marry me, then?" he demanded.

Why, indeed? A moment of pessimism, a sudden conviction of the undeniable prose of life, a lapse of the illusion which sustains youth midway between heaven and earth, a desperate attempt to reconcile herself with facts--she could only recall a moment, as of waking from a dream, which now seemed to her a moment of surrender. But who could give reasons such as these for doing what she had done? She shook her head very sadly.    - by Virginia Woolf

-- 出于“瞬间的悲观情绪，一种对无奈人生的突然屈服，以为年轻生命可以维持于天地之间的错觉幻灭，一种试图厘清现实的绝望企图”----  有多少人在这种‘念想’之下答应结了婚？

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303 【Night and Day】Why, she reflected, should there be this perpetual disparity between the thought and the action, between the life of solitude and the life of society, this astonishing precipice on one side of which the soul was active and in broad daylight, on the other side of which it was contemplative and dark as night? Was it not possible to step from one to the other, erect, and without essential change?  - by Virginia Woolf

-- 永久性错位：想的和做的，孤单的和群体的；灵魂游离于两极：光耀的白天和魁惑的黑暗。。。作者问，如何可以跨越？读者答：毒品，酒精和死亡。。

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304 【Night and Day】

'-- Look at me, Ralph." He (Ralph) looked at her. "I assure you that I'm far more ordinary than I appear. Beauty means nothing whatever. In fact, the most beautiful women are generally the most stupid. I'm not that, but I'm a matter-of-fact, prosaic, rather ordinary character; I order the dinner, I pay the bills, I do the accounts, I wind up the clock, and I never look at a book."

"You forget--" he began, but she would not let him speak.

"You come and see me among flowers and pictures, and think me mysterious, romantic, and all the rest of it. Being yourself very inexperienced and very emotional, you go home and invent a story about me, and now you can't separate me from the person you've imagined me to be. You call that, I suppose, being in love; as a matter of fact it's being in delusion. All romantic people are the same," she added. "My mother spends her life in making stories about the people she's fond of. But I won't have you do it about me, if I can help it."

"You can't help it," he said.

"I warn you it's the source of all evil."

"And of all good," he added.

"You'll find out that I'm not what you think me."

"Perhaps. But I shall gain more than I lose."

"If such gain's worth having."

They were silent for a space.

"That may be what we have to face," he said. "There may be nothing else. Nothing but what we imagine."

  - by Virginia Woolf



-- 关于漂亮，平庸，浪漫，爱情，幻觉 --  这一段很经典，很符合我的‘胃口’，如果你不认真看，我打你屁股10下。

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305 【Night and Day】The tears rose slowly in Katharine's eyes and stood there, brimming but contained--the tears of some profound emotion, happiness, grief, renunciation; - by Virginia Woolf

-- 这么复杂的眼泪。。

不失眠

顶一顶

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洋八路 发表于 2012-4-13 17:02
305 【Night and Day】The tears rose slowly in Katharine's eyes and stood there, brimming but contain ...

It has been ages since my last time of visiting to this site and when I read this post again I feel it as if having been compiled by other people...not too bad indeed and may you find some fun with it...     

amyyou17

hunter38 发表于 2011-3-31 22:49
今天和7岁女儿打羽毛球，球掉到树上拿不下来，她说，“don't worry, what goes up, what comes down" ...

请问是什么意思啊

michelleh9560

学习了

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感谢分享

calumcleaning

tears filled her eyes and the photographs swam and became blurred
这儿的and表的是因果吧，是的话转换就很自然了
当然，swam有点儿像中文里的拟人，很形象。

calumcleaning

A kiss so strong that I grasp the back of her waist, dazzled, shuddering and melting with a passion after years of hibernation

cycwong21

(monkey19) (monkey08) (monkey1)

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amyyou17 发表于 2017-9-19 21:16
请问是什么意思啊

It means that we should take things easy as they will go and follow the natural course...

顺其自然...

calumcleaning

As long as man was allowed to remain in Paradise, either he didn't cafe at all, or he did not look upon food as something repellent. Not until after God expelled man from Paradise did He make him feel innocent. Man began to hide what get him gloried in, and by the time he removed the veil, he was blinded by a great light. Thus, immediately after his introduction to innocence, he was introduced to excitement. Without food, there would be no sexual love as we know it, accompanied by pounding heart and blinded senses.      [生命无法承受之重]

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calumcleaning 发表于 2017-10-4 12:52
As long as man was allowed to remain in Paradise, either he didn't cafe at all, or he did not look u ...

09/10/2017:

-- Her lack suit hung on her as if it were on a frame of sticks. [The Adaptive Ultimate] by Stanley G. Weinbaum