天穹

Wisps of clouds. Heaven was spread out before me. We'd worked hard to reach it.

天穹在我们面前铺开——我们历经艰辛，为的就是要到那去啊！

And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us——then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master——her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.

当夜幕为河滨蒙上一层诗意般的薄雾之时，潦倒的建筑在昏暗的天穹下像被什么东西盖住一样看不见了，高耸的烟囱变得像一座钟楼一般，仓库在黑夜中看起来像座雄伟的宫殿，整座城市悬挂在天空中，给人如置身仙境般的感觉。旅人加快了归家的步伐；忙于工作的人，聪慧和有学识的人还有快乐的人们理解不了其中的奥秘，因为他们从没用心眼去观察过自然界。而自然只曾为孤独的艺术家——她的儿子，那个大师高歌一曲，因为只有艺术家爱着她，深深了解她。

Yet almost every body recognize that the season's character transcend those familiar bracing days – crystal nights, bigger stars, vaulted sky, fluted twilights, harvest moons, frosted pumpkins and the foliage that impels whose traffic jams of leaf freaks up into New England.

几乎每个人都可以了解秋的特性，不只是大家所熟知的温和的日子—清新的夜晚，闪烁的繁星，深邃的天穹，柔和的黎明，明亮的满月，霜冻的南瓜以及使新英格兰为之神魂颠倒的树叶。

From the central boss at the highest point of the vault, he followed a rib all the way down again to the matching pier on the opposite corner of the crossing.

他的目光在天穹最高点的浮雕那里追踪着其中的一个肋状支撑物向下，到了交叉点对角处与此相对的另一个石柱。shafts 译为&石棒&显然不合适。&棒&在汉语中再大也不会像柱子那么大。可考虑换其他词。

Under the tallest part of the glass canopy, a rock-faced concrete mountain bulged.

在玻璃天穹的最高点下面，凸立着一个岩石面的混凝土山。

Bruise-black clouds silhouetted a forest of giant gymnosperms while stratocumulus towered nine kilometers high in a violent sky.

长满巨大裸子植物的森林在乌青的黑云下现出黑色影像，而层积云就像万米高塔直插入狂暴天穹。

The curving hills scalloped the edge of the light-blue sky Mount Egmont soared ten thousand feet, sloping into the clouds

逶迤的山脉将淡蓝色的天穹弯成一个扇面，爱格蒙山高耸入云。他们壮志凌云。

The curving hills scalloped the edge of the light-blue sky Mount Egmont soared ten thousand feet, sloping into the clouds

逶迤的山脉将淡蓝色的天穹弯成一个扇面，爱格蒙山高耸入云。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。