原级:copse
1. This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence of the gendarmes, --probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall.
那蒲辣秃柳儿是被当地人另眼相看的,他为人过于周到,过于谦卑,见了任何人都连忙脱帽,见了警察更一面哆嗦,一面送笑脸,有些人说他很可能和某些匪徒有联系,怀疑他一到傍晚便在一些树丛角落里打埋伏。
2. The lofty trees, the copses, the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in a sombre manner; the savage swar ming there catches glimpses of sudden apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night.
那些大树,那些丛林,那些灌木,那些相互纠结的树枝,高深的草丛,形成一种幽晦的环境,荒野中蠕蠕攒动的生物在那里瞥见无形者的突然出现,在人之下者在那里透过一层迷雾,看见了在人之上者,我们生人所不知道的种种东西,夜间在那里会集。
3. The uplands and copses, which at the end of August had still been green islands among the black fields ploughed ready for winter corn, and the stubble had become golden and lurid red islands in a sea of bright green autumn crops.
八月底,群山的顶峰和树林在秋播作物的黑土田地和麦庄之间犹如绿色的孤林,这时在鲜绿的越冬作物中间,已经变成金光闪闪的和鲜红的孤林。
4. In this low ground about Borodino in the mist, and above it, and especially along the whole line to the left, in the copses, in the meadows below, and on the tops of the heights, clouds of smoke were incessantly springing out of nothing, now singly, now several at once, then at longer intervals, then in rapid succession. These clouds of smoke, puffing, rolling, melting into one another, and sundering apart, trailed all across the wide plain.
在雾气腾腾的波罗底诺附近的洼地上,以及在它以外的高地上,特别是在战线的左方,在树林、田野、洼地、高地的顶端,仿佛无中生有似的不断地腾起大炮的团团浓烟,有时单个出现,有时成群出现;时而稀疏,时而稠密,这一带到处可以看见烟团膨胀开来,茂盛起来,汹涌滚动,混成一片。
5. At a stroke the little woods and copses became a cacophony: a musical celebration of the instantaneous horniness of the turning year.
小树林和灌木丛里一下子充满了各式各样的声音:用音乐庆祝突如其来的季节更迭。
6. Against the peaceful landscape, the pale, decaying tints of the copses, the blue air of the horizon, and the lichened stile-boards, these staring vermilion words shone forth.
映衬着宁静的风景、矮树林灰白的枯黄色调、天边的蔚蓝色空气和长满苔藓的栅栏木板,那些鲜红的大字闪闪发光。
7. The road was flanked with fields and copses.
道路的两旁是田野和矮树林。
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8. In the foreground lay golden fields and copses glittering in the sun.
金黄色的田野和小树林在近处闪闪发亮。
9. Even now, traces of its earlier condition are to be found in the old oak copses and irregular belts of timber that yet survive upon its slopes, and the hollow-trunked trees that shade so many of its pastures.
即使到了现在,从山坡上残存下来的古老的橡树林和错落不齐的树林带上,从为牧场遮荫的许多空心树上,都找得到当年情形的痕迹。
10. It was like saying: There are no forests, only trees and copses.
这好比说世上没有森林,只有乔木和灌木。
11. Everything on this snug property was bright, thriving, and well kept; acres of glass houses stretched down the inclines to the copses at their feet.
在这块幽静舒适的地产上,一切都是光明的,兴旺的,管理得井井有条;占地几英亩的温室从山坡上延伸下去,一直到了山脚下的萌生林那儿。
1. Then we trudged up a nearby slope for a high vista over the valley, surrounded by slopes of terraced fields and copses of bamboo and forest.