【42 The Rainbow 彩虹】
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So the Brangwens came and went without fear of necessity, working hard because of the life that was in them, not for want of the money. Neither were they thriftless. They were aware of the last halfpenny, and instinct made them not waste the peeling of their apple, for it would help to feed the cattle. But heaven and earth was teeming around them, and how should this cease? They felt the rush of the sap in spring, they knew the wave which cannot halt, but every year throws forward the seed to begetting, and, falling back, leaves the young-born on the earth. They knew the intercourse between heaven and earth, sunshine drawn into the breast and bowels, the rain sucked up in the daytime, nakedness that comes under the wind in autumn, showing the birds’nests no longer worth hiding. Their life and interrelations were such; feeling the pulse and body of the soil, that opened to their furrow for the grain, and became smooth and supple after their ploughing, and clung to their feet with a weight that pulled like desire, lying hard and unresponsive when the crops
所以，布朗溫一家沒有生活之憂。他們辛勤勞作，是天性使然，並非因為缺錢。他們注意不把錢花光，他們本能地不扔掉蘋果皮，因為蘋果皮可以用來喂牛。他們周圍，天地生生不息，怎麼會休止呢？春天，他們能感受到活力的湧現，其浪潮永無休止，每年都拋撒出生命的種子，種子再落回大地，土地上再長出新生命。他們了解天地的陰陽交彙——陽光照進大地的五臟六腑，大地又在白晝吸入雨露，在秋風中赤裸無餘，鳥兒再無藏身之處。他們的生活和相互關係就是如此：感受著土地的脈搏，土地在開墾後滿是種莊稼用的犁溝，土壤變得又鬆又軟，一踩上去，它像欲望一樣緊緊抓住你。而到了快要收割莊稼時，土地就變得堅實硬朗了。一株株稚嫩的穀物像海浪一樣隨風起伏，像腿邊的綢緞般絲滑光潔。他們捧起奶牛的乳房擠奶，奶牛一邊產奶一邊抵抗人們的手掌，奶頭的血脈衝撞著人們手中的命脈。他們跨上馬背，雙腿夾緊生命。他們把馬套
were to be shorn away. The young corn waved and was silken, and the lustre slid along the limbs of the men who saw it. They took the udder of the cows, the cows yielded milk and pulse against the hands of the men, the pulse of the blood of the teats of the cows beat into the pulse of the hands of the men. They mounted their horses, and held life between the grip of their knees, they harnessed their horses at the wagon, and, with hand on the bridle-rings, drew the heaving of the horses after their will.
到馬車前，手握韁繩，隨心所欲地勒住暴躁的馬兒。
單詞解析 Word Analysis
thriftless[ˈθrɪftlɪs]adj.浪費的
本章節來源於𝑜𝑜𝑝.𝑡𝑤
.emas eht lla sseltfirht dna hsival si eh tub ;ecnatneper dna esromer fo stifelbirret sah eh ,suhT 例
。費浪張鋪樣那是還他是但；恨悔、責自常非地陣陣一他，此因
於富，滿充.v]mːit[meet
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