《瓦尔登湖·第十三章·室内取暖·House-Warming》第2节
Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water. Ah, many a tale their color told! And gradually from week to week the character of each tree came out, and it admired itself reflected in the smooth mirror of the lake. Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls. The wasps came by thousands to my lodge in October, as to winter quarters, and settled on my windows within and on the walls over-head, sometimes deterring visitors from entering. Each morning, when they were numbed with cold, I swept some of them out, but I did not trouble myself much to get rid of them; I even felt complimented by their regarding my house as a desirable shelter. They never molested me seriously, though they bedded with me; and they gradually disappeared, into what crevices I do not know, avoiding winter and unspeakable cold. Like the wasps, before I finally went into winter quarters in November, I used to resort to the north-east side of Walden, which the sun, reflected from the pitch-pine woods and the stony shore, made the fire-side of the pond; it is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire. I thus warmed myself by the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, had left.
注释摘要
梭罗用一段精巧的过渡，把秋天写成了介于户外与室内之间的季节。他先写湖对岸的几株红枫和白杨——九月初，两三棵小枫树已经转成猩红，映在水面上。他把整片湖岸比作一座画廊，每天早晨都有一位看不见的管理者换上新的画作，用色彩更明亮或更和谐的树叶替代旧的。这不是闲笔：超验主义的自然观里，自然本身就是不断更新的启示，人需要的是每天睁眼去看这一场不落幕的展览。白杨的白树干…