在地平线上

The big chimneys of factories are still emitting black smoke on the remote apparent horizon, which are sarcastically standing in our eyeshot along with the forest far away from the city.

工厂的大烟筒依然在遥远的地平线上冒着黑烟，与远离城市的森林彼此讥讽着伫立在我们的视野中。

Beyond the harbor there loomed, grey and cold upon the wintry horizon, a dismal barrack, parted from the Wildernsea houses by a narrow creek, spanned by an iron draw-bridge.

港湾后面，隐隐约约地兀立着一个惨淡的兵营，苍白而寒冷地映衬在冬天的地平线上，一条狭窄的溪流把它和怀尔德恩西的民房彼此分开，一条钢铁吊桥横跨在溪流之上。

If they could not see the Winter Palace with their own eyes, they could dream about it --- as if in the gloaming they saw a breath-taking masterpiece of art as they had never known before --- as if there above the horizon of European civilization was towering the silhouette of Asian civilization.

如果不能亲眼目睹圆明园，人们就在梦中看到它。它仿佛在遥远的苍茫暮色中隐约眺见的一件前所未知的惊人杰作，宛如亚洲文明的轮廓崛起在欧洲文明的地平线上一样。

If they could not see the WinterPalace with their own eyes, they could dream about it --- as if in the gloaming they saw a breath-taking masterpiece of art as they had never known before --- as if there above the horizon of European civilization was towering the silhouette of Asian civilization.

它仿佛在遥远的苍茫暮色中隐约眺见的一件前所未知的惊人杰作，宛如亚洲文明的轮廓崛起在欧洲文明的地平线上一样。

If they could not see the Winter Palace w IT h their own eyes, they could dream about IT --- as if in the gloaming they saw a breath-taking masterpiece of art as they had never known before --- as if there above the horizon of European civilization was towering the silhouette of Asian civilization.

它仿佛在遥远的苍茫暮色中隐约眺见的一件前所未知的惊人杰作，宛如亚洲文明的轮廓崛起在欧洲文明的地平线上一样。

Every morning, when dawn's light burned on the horizon, he thought he stood again in that doorway, and hope surged in his chest -- but as soon as the sun rose above the distant hills, his vision cleared and he was still in his tower.

每个早晨当地平线上燃起曙光的时候，他就会觉得他重新站在了那座图书馆的门口，希望再次在心中澎湃起来。但当太阳升上远方的山峦的时候，幻觉又消失了，他又重新回到他塔里了。

Fortunately for me, as I was wondering what to do next, there appeared on the horizon a man on horseback , riding in my direction.

幸运的是，我正在想下一步要做什么时，地平线上出现了一个人，骑在马背上，正朝我走来。

The expedition had taken with them an elderly Arab whose main qualifications as a guide were that he had crossed the sand sea twice before in his lifetime, once as a young lad. To the expedition's amazement , he had kept the vehicles at an exact compass bearing right across the sand sea, apparently based solely on his recollection of minor features in the landscape (a hump on the horizon or a patch of unusual red sand) that he had seen only twice many years before.

该远征队随行带上了一位年长阿拉伯人，他作为向导的主要资格就是他平生曾两次穿过这个大沙海，其中一次他还是个年青小伙子，令远征队叹服的是，他带领车队迳直横穿沙海时与罗盘方向完全吻合，显然他全靠回忆那些只在多年前见识过两次的细小的地貌特征(如地平线上的一个土丘或者一片非同一般的红色沙漠)。

In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prairie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip.

从我的屋子向着一个方向望过去，河畔的草地上，有着一个麝鼠的聚居地；而在另一个地平线上，榆树和悬铃木底下，却有一个满是忙人的村子，使我发生了好奇之心，仿佛他们是大草原上的狗，不是坐在他们的兽穴的人口，便是奔到邻家闲谈去了。

A boy stood out of the horizon where shadows of night had not conquered, watching also as the twin suns sinking, their images mirrored in his eyes, one orange-red and one yellow-white, cut in middle by a stread of clouds.

一个男孩独自站在尚未被暗影吞噬的地平线上，也在注视着沉落的夕阳，它们的影子映在他的眼中，一个橙红，一个黄白，萦绕着一丝云彩。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。