你見過那棵樹嗎

Have You Seen the Tree

你見過那棵樹嗎

My neighbor Mrs. Gargan first told me about it."Have you seen the tree?" she asked as I was sitting in the backyard enjoying the October twilight.

關于那棵樹，最初是我的鄰居加根太太告訴我的?！澳阋娺^那棵樹嗎？”她問道，當時我正坐在后院欣賞十月的暮色。

"The one down at the corner," she explained. "It's a beautiful tree-all kinds of colors.Cars are stopping to look. You ought to see it."

“就是下去拐角處的那棵”她解釋說，“漂亮極了—五顏六色的。好多車路過都停下來看，你該去看看?！?/p>

I told her I would, but I soon forgot about the tree. Three days later, I was jogging down the street, my mind swimming with petty worries, when a splash of bright orange caught my eye. For an instant, I thought someone's house had caught fire. Then I remembered the tree.

我對她說我會去看的，可轉眼就忘記了關于樹的事。三天后，我順著街道慢跑，腦子里充斥著惱人的小事，忽然，一片耀眼的橘紅色映入眼簾，有一會兒，我還以為是誰家的房子著火了呢，但我馬上想到了那棵樹。

As I approached it, I slowed to a walk. There was nothing remarkable about the shape of the tree. a medium-sized maple. But Mrs. Gargan had been right about its colors.Like the messy whirl of an artist's palette, the tree blazed a bright crimson on its lower branches, burned with vivid yellows and oranges in its center. and simmered to deep red at its top. Through these fiery colors cascaded thin rivulets of pale-green leaves and blotches of deep-green leaves, as yet untouched by autumn.

我慢慢走近它.就像朝圣者緩緩步向神殿，我發現靠近樹梢的地方有幾根光禿禿的枝丫，上面黑乎乎的小枝像鷹爪一般伸向天空?？葜ι下湎碌娜~子一片猩紅，像地毯似的鋪在樹干周圍。

Edging closer-like a pilgrim approaching a shrine-I noticed several bare branches near the top, their black twigs scratching the air like claws.The leaves they had shed lay like a scarlet carpet around the trunk.

當我靠近樹時，禁不住放慢了腳步。樹的形狀并沒有什么非凡之處，是一棵中等大小的楓樹。但加根太太說得不錯，它的色彩確實奇特，像畫家調色板中斑斕的頗料，令人眼花繚亂。樹底部的枝丫好似一片鮮紅的火海，樹的中部燃燒著明快的黃色和橘色，頂部的樹梢又爆發著深紅色。在這火一樣的色彩中，流淌著淺綠的葉子匯成的小溪，深綠的葉子斑駁點綴其間，似乎至今末曾受到過秋天的侵襲。