为你读英语美文 · 第420期 

主播：潇雨

Outside the Window

《窗外》

作者：周瓒

Often, I imagine lifting my head from the page.

我时常想象自己抬起头，从书页上

I imagine seeing a fraction of the sea,

我想象自己，看到了一片海

its field of blue, beyond the window's edge.

有蓝色的液体，游过窗棂

But all I glimpse is one small part of the ocean.

但我所能领受的，只是一小片海域

So I say to myself, that's not

我告诉自己，那从来就不是

its full depth or expanse—

全部的深广，况且

besides, I'm sitting in one place.

我坐在一个固定的地方

It alerts me, imagination has limits.

它提醒我，想象，也不能是无限的

I know it, too, must begin somewhere;

想象有一个天然的出发点

perhaps it has the freedom

也许它有自由

of the sea bird's wings—

如海鸟一样的翅膀

like those our soul covets—

而我们的心灵能够

offering us breaches,

提供树枝

feeding our daydreams on a perched fulcrum

供白日的梦想，一个栖息的支点

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