雨前翻译

翻译：雨前 (何其芳)对比

(a) Preludes to Rainfall translate: alexcwlin/edit: adam.L

(b) Before the Rain张梦井、杜耀文

(c) Before the Rain Robert Neather

(d) Praying for Rainfall张培基

最后的鸽群带着低弱的笛声在微风里划一个圈子后，也消失了。

(a) The last flight of pigeons circled around once in the gentle wind with a faint swishing sound and then disappeared.

(b) Having made the last circle in the breeze, the last of the pigeons disappeared with a faint whistle. (c) With a faint whistling, the last flock of pigeons etched a circle in the light breeze, then disappeared.

(d) The last flock of pigeons have also gone out of sight after doing their final circling in the soft breeze, the sound of their whistles barely audible.

也许是误认这灰暗的凄冷的天空为夜色的来袭或是也预感到风雨的将至，遂过早地飞回它们温暖的木舍。

(a) Perhaps they mistook the gray gloomy sky as nightfall or they sensed the coming of a storm. As such, they flew back to their warm cozy wooden-coops prematurely.

(b) Perhaps they mistakingly thought the dark and cold sky to be the coming dim light of night , or perhaps they predicted the coming wind and rain; thus they flew to their warm wooden nest rather early. (c) Perhaps they mistook the darkness of this chilly, lowering sky for the onset of night, or perhaps they sensed the arrival of a storm, and so returned early to the warmth of their wooden pigeonry.

(d) They are hastening back to their warm wooden dovecote earlier than usual perhaps because they have mistaken the bleak leaden sky for nightfall or because of their presentiment of a storm.

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几天的阳光在柳条上撤下的一抹嫩绿，被尘土埋掩得有憔悴色了，是需要一次洗涤。

(a) A few days of sunshine sprinkled willow twigs with lime-green shoots which, at present, looked rather lifeless for being smudged with dust. A wash would be in order.

(b) A plaster of soft green cast on the willow branches after several days of sunlight now had become somewhat withered under the dust. It was in great need of a wash.

(c) The few days' sunlight had splashed the willow twigs with the tender green of new growth,but the dust that now covered them made them seem tired and withered, in need of a wash.

(d) The willow twigs, daubed with a light green by several days of sunshine, are now covered all over with the dust and look so sickly that they need to be washed.

还有干裂的大地和树根也早已期待着雨。雨却迟疑着。

(a) Also the drought-cracked earth and tree-roots were thirsty for rain, but rain was slow to come. (b) And the cracked, parched earth and tree roots had long been waiting for rain. But still the rain was slow in coming.

(c) And the parched, split earth and tree-roots had long since been awaiting rain. But the rain hesitated.

(d) And the perched soil and tree roots have likewise been dying for rainfall. Yet the rain is reluctant