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【Chapter 5】

Our cottage was not named, as many were, “Dew Drop Inn” or “Bide-a-Wee,” or “Bonnie Doon”. The sign on the roadway bore（write 写着） in austere（朴素的） letters only our name, MacLeod. It was not a large cottage, but it was on the lakefront（1. 湖边，湖畔2. stand against the lake正对着湖）. 1.（You could look out the windows and see through the filigree（丝帘） of the spruce（云杉） trees, the water glistening greenly（碧绿的湖水闪耀着adv.修饰adj.） as the sun caught（照耀） it.） All around the cottage were ferns（蕨）, and sharp-branched raspberry bushes, and moss（苔藓） that had grown over fallen tree trunks（树干）. If you looked carefully among the weeds and grass, you could find wild strawberry（野草莓） plants which were in white flower now and in another month would bear fruit（结果）, the fragrant globes（芳香的globe指“草莓果”） hanging like miniature scarlet（猩红色的） lanterns on the thin hairy stems（长毛的茎）. 2.（The two grey squirrels（松鼠） were still there, gossiping（窃窃私语） at us from the tall spruce beside the cottage, and by the end of the summer they would again be tame（驯服的） enough to take pieces of crust（面包屑） from my hands.） The broad moose（麋鹿） antlers（鹿角） that hung above the back door were a little more bleached（漂白） and fissured（裂开） after winter, but otherwise（other其他的） everything was the same.

3.（ I raced joyfully around my kingdom, greeting(run hither and thither happily ) all the places I had not seen for a year.） 4.（My brother, Roderick, who had not been born when we were here last summer, sat on the car rug（汽车垫） in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone（球果=globe）, meticulously（小心翼翼地） turning it round and round in his small and curious hands.） My mother and father toted（搬运） the luggage from car to cottage, exclaiming over how well the place had wintered（pass the winter过冬）, no broken windows, thank goodness, no apparent damage from storm-felled（被暴雪吹断的） branches or snow.

一、生词：

1．【Cottage】:

BrE small, one-storey house in country 农舍

AmE a summer house in the country 小别墅

2．【Bear】：（show，write）display and carry visibly

Exp：The doctor bore his signature.

3．【Austere】:简谱的，朴素的(plain, without ornament)

Exp: an austere style of painting

     She dressed austerely rather than smartly. 她穿着不花俏，反而朴素。

4．【Fissure】：破裂（long deep crack in rock or earth）

Exp: The serious fissure in the Labor Party. (Separation or division)

5．【Winter】：过冬to pass the winter

Exp：It became fashionable to winter in a warm place for the rich people.

     A wintering bird过冬的鸟儿

P.S.：

spruce云杉

fern蕨类（凤尾草）

raspberry 覆盆子（蔷薇科的野草莓）

moss苔藓

strawberry草莓

squirrel松鼠

 moose麋鹿

二、Paraphrase & English Rhetoric

1. ①filigree丝帘（lace），此处为metaphor，把成片的spruce比作filigree②greenly做adv.使用，用以修饰adj. glistening。

2.文章中把squirrel写活了，gossiping 和tame 形成鲜明对比，用到了拟人（personification）的修辞animated the scenery and make the readers feels happy not only the animal but also the people.

3. kingdom表示我的“王国”，实际上是指the paradise/fairyland in her childhood ，同样是metaphor，把小女生儿时的ideal，goals充分表达出来；greeting（visit and run happily hither and thither）表示在我的“王国”里跑来跑去，兴奋不已。

4. 修饰小男孩的手，作者用到了curious hand，【移就】：transferred epithet（又叫转移修饰）在文学作品中常常出现，简而言之：通过人的情绪，状态，将事物的形状，本质凸显出来，是一种搭配的创新用法。本来curious 不能修饰hand，现在加上了修饰人的curious，使hand更加具有人的热性。

Exp：

《荷塘月色》-朱自清“叶子底下是脉脉的流水。”脉脉是指用眼神或者行动表情达意，形容人含情脉的样子，“含情脉脉”，“盈盈一水间，脉脉不得语。”，这里却用来修饰流水，增加了表情达意的效果。

三、参考翻译：

我们的湖边别墅不像许多其他别墅一样取了诸如“露珠客栈”或“小憩园”或“怡神居”之类的名字，立于马路边的标牌上只用朴素的字体写着我们的姓氏“麦克里奥”。别墅的房子不算大，但占着正对着湖面的有利位置。从别墅的窗户往外看，透过一层云杉树叶织成的丝帘，可以看见碧绿的湖面在太阳的映照下波光粼粼。别墅的四周长满了凤尾草、悬钩子藤，还有断落的树枝上长出的青苔；若是细心地在草丛里寻找，你还会找到一些野草莓藤，上面已经开了白花，再过一个月便会长出野草莓来，到时候，散发出芬芳气息的草莓果便会像一个个微型的红灯笼一般悬挂在毛茸茸的细茎上。别墅旁边的一棵高大的云杉树上的那对灰色小松鼠还在，此时正朝着我们嘁嘁喳喳地乱叫，到夏天快过完的时候，它们又会变得驯驯服服，敢从我手上叼取面包屑了。别墅后门上挂的一对鹿角经过一个冬天的风吹雨淋之后又多褪了一些颜色，增加了一些裂纹，其余一切都还是原样。

我兴高采烈地在我的小王国里跑来跑去，和所有阔别了一年的地方一一去打招呼。我的小弟弟罗德里克，去年夏天我们来这儿避暑时他还没有出生，此时正坐在放在太阳底下晒着的汽车座垫上，埋头玩赏着一个黄褐色的云杉球果，用他那双好奇的小手小心翼翼地抓着那颗球果，把它搓得团团转。我母亲和父亲忙着将行李从车上搬进别墅，连声惊叹着，这地方经过一个冬天后竞如此完好，窗户玻璃没破一块，真是谢天谢地，房屋也没有受到被暴风吹断的树枝或冰雪砸损的痕迹。