Elfride looked thoughtfully at the myrtle.

埃尔弗里德若有所思地看着桃金娘。

'That enervating ride through the myrtle climate of South Devon—how I dread it to-morrow! ' Mrs. Swancourt was saying.

“在南德文郡桃金娘气候中进行那次令人筋疲力尽旅程——我多么害怕明天！ ” 斯旺考特夫人在说。

And ultimately, to the commonest tourist, spots like Iceland may become what the vineyards and myrtle gardens of South Europe are to him now.

像冰岛这样地方，对于最普通旅游者来说，最终也许都会变得跟他看南欧葡萄园和香桃木园样。

'That is only an ordinary myrtle'.

“那只是棵普通桃金娘” 。

But he was especially anxious to vanquish his competitors with his handles of bamboo, dogwood, olive, myrtle, rattan, indeed every imaginable sort of handle.

但他特别渴望用竹子、山茱萸、橄榄树、桃金娘、藤条， 实际上是所有可以想到把手来打败他竞争对手。

Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, " They are the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth" .

那站在番石榴树中间人说：" 这是奉耶和华差遣，在遍地走来走去。"

'No: I am fond of myrtle'. Seeing that she did not take kindly to the idea, he said again, 'Why do you object to my having that'?

“不：我喜欢桃金娘”。见她不以为然，他又说：“你为什么反对我要那个？”

I once saw a pair consummate their union on the tip of a crepe myrtle bough, most precariously, and other pairs have mated at the edge of the bird-bath.

我曾经看到对在绉桃金娘树枝顶端完成他结合，非常不稳定，而其他对则在鸟浴边缘交配。

For a mile we had a low rolling hill for company, with traces of ancient habitation at its peak: a few yards of rotting fence, a crepe myrtle, an orange tree.

在英里范围内， 我有座连绵起伏低矮山丘， 山顶上有古代居住痕迹：几码腐烂栅栏、紫薇和橘子树。

The subject then dropped. Knight thought no more of the matter till, on entering his bedroom in the evening, he found the second myrtle placed upon his dressing-table as he had directed.

然后话题就散了。奈特没有再多想这件事，直到晚上走进他卧室时，他发现第二颗桃金娘按照他指示放在了他梳妆台上。

Here and there in the grass, roses threw out sprangles from crushed old stems and pink and white crepe myrtle bloomed as valiantly as if war had not passed over their heads and Yankee horses gnawed their boughs.

草地上，有簇簇玫瑰，经过摧残之后，主干上又发出了新枝，还有粉色紫薇争芳斗艳，仿佛它头顶上上从没发生战乱，北方佬战马也没啃过它枝叶。

The same pair of red-birds mates and nests in an orange tree behind my house and brings its progeny twice a year to the feed basket in the crepe myrtle in the front yard.

同对红鸟在我家后面棵橘子树上交配和筑巢，每年两次将它后代带到前院紫薇饲料篮里。

And they reported to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, " We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace" .

那些骑马对站在番石榴树中间耶和华使者说：" 我已在遍地走来走去，见全地都安息平静。"

During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.

" 我夜间观看，见人骑着红马，站在洼地番石榴树中间。在他身后，又有红马、黄马和白马。"

The little ground doves fly as though uncertain of themselves, like apprentice birds learning the business. They take off with a whirring of tiny rose-lined wings, achieving the safety of the crepe myrtle with a spasmodic effort.

地面上小鸽子飞来飞去，好像对自己不确定，就像学徒鸟学习业务样。它起飞时会发出呼呼作响微小玫瑰色翅膀，用痉挛性努力获得紫薇安全。

The crepe myrtle beside the bird-bath explodes into Roman candles of bloom and showers of rosy blossoms fall hour after hour into the water, so that the red-birds and doves and mockingbirds emerge covered with flowers from their bathing.

鸟浴池旁紫薇绽放成罗马盛开烛光，阵阵玫瑰色花朵小时又小时地落入水中，因此红鸟、鸽子和反舌鸟从沐浴后全身覆盖着花朵出现。