Hello, everyone.Today, I want to share a beautiful story with you — it’s the Summer Song.
The summer sun is a giant flower,and the flowers are like little suns. Little suns of all different colors.
夏日骄阳是一朵巨大的花,而花朵就像小小的太阳,五颜六色的小太阳。
But if I had to pick one color, I’d say summer is green. Green on green on green. Summer is a green song.
但如果必须选一种颜色,我会说夏天是绿色的。绿意层层叠叠,夏天是一首绿色的歌
A song of leaves and trees and weeds and grass, lots of grass.
一首关于树叶、树木、杂草和青草的歌,还有那成片的青草。
If there is tall grass in a field and the wind blows, it sounds like music. So do the air conditioners and the fans and the sprinklers and the lawn mowers.
风拂过草尖,沙沙声如竖琴轻拨;空调嗡鸣、风扇低旋、喷淋器淅沥、割草机轰鸣,共同织成夏日的绿色交响——这旋律不靠音符,而以生命律动为节拍,在热浪里持续生长、呼吸、起伏。
Most of the time, birds are part of the song—in the air, in the sky— and sometimes rain and thunder are, too.
大多数时候,鸟儿是这首歌的一部分——在天空中,在云端——偶尔雨声和雷声也会加入。
If you lie in the grass, and you’re quiet and patient and lucky, you might hear a bug song—whirring and buzzing and humming.
如果你躺在草地上,安静、耐心且幸运的话,或许能听见虫儿的歌——嗡鸣、嗡嗡声和哼唱。
Are there bees?
Yes. Grasshoppers?
Yes. Crickets? Yes. Dragonflies?
Yes. And silent butterflies too.
有蜜蜂吗?有的。蚱蜢呢?有的。蟋蟀?有的。蜻蜓?有的。还有静默的蝴蝶。
And at night, are there fireflies? Sometimes. There’s one and another one and another one and another one. They’re singing to each other without a sound.
夜晚会有萤火虫吗?偶尔。那儿有一只!又一只!还有一只!再来一只!它们正无声地对彼此歌唱。
When there is fog early in the morning,Summer is a gray song.
当清晨雾气弥漫,夏天便是一首灰色的歌。
When you go to the beach or a lake, Summer is a blue song. And when the sky is blue,too. But the green song is still there.
当你走向海滩或湖畔,夏天是一首蓝色的歌——当天空也湛蓝时。但那首绿色的歌依然存在。
If you slow down and think about it,you can feel the Summer song. It's warm and then hot and then hotter.
如果你放慢脚步细细体会,就能感受到夏天的旋律:它是温暖的,继而炽热,再愈发滚烫。
In the shade it can be cool, or when you play with the hose.
树荫下它会变得清凉,或是当你玩起水管时。
But when the days become shorter and the nights come earlier, the song changes. Summer gets bored and wants to try something new, something different. The song is turning turning turning… it’s turning into Fall.
但当白昼渐短,黑夜提早降临,旋律便悄然改变。夏天感到厌倦,想要尝试一些新的、不同的东西。旋律旋转啊旋转啊旋转……最终转入了秋天。
This is my summer song, a song for everyone. I hope you all love summer as much as I do. Thank you for listening!
指导老师:赖洋锨