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● glades：森林中的空旷草地。yellow warmth：和煦的金光。
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● veins：（狭义）静脉，（广义）血管；这里宜译作血管。could have climbed（虚拟语气）：照我们那天的兴致，我们会一直爬到月亮上去的。
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● lifted：吹起。damp hair：湿的头发。（山中雾气重，头发易湿。）mountain wall：峭壁。fanned out：像扇子状地展开。云块冉冉上升，卷过崖壁，散入碧空之中。
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● torrents：急湍，激流。sang：水声潺潺。
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Up out of the woods we came, to the rocks of the Little Headwall, and stood in a lee in the noon sun to look eastward across the bottomless valley to Carter Dome and Wildcat. All earth and air rang with clear autumn brilliance. White cumulus marched away through the blue to the pale southeastward rim of the world, but the sun kept its warm blaze against us, partly drying our wet skin. In the thin air the white vapor of our breathing took shape.
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“Colder than you’d think,” John said.
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● 他们走出林区，登上Little Headwall（峰名）的乱石山头。Up out of the woods we came=we came up out of the woods。lee：背风之处，风力所不及之处。他们从九、十点钟开始爬山，到中午已经穿越森林，攀登一小山头，那天吹西风（前面已经说过），他们背西面东而立，身后山石将风挡住，纵目东望，下临无底深谷，前面Carter Dome与Wildcat两峰矗立。
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● 其时秋高气爽，天色明净，clear autumn brilliance三字自不难了解，可是动词rang一字，则大见功夫。rang者，铿锵有声也；大地太空满目清朗，秋气飒爽，似作金石之声。其有声耶？其无声耶？有待读者之妙悟矣。
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● cumulus：积云（云之成朵状者，晴朗天气时见之）。白云为西北风所吹，飞过（原文用marched，声势雄壮，犹如天马行空）碧空，飘向苍茫杳霭（pale）西南方地平线（rim of the world：地球之边缘）而去。
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● blaze：光辉。
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● the white vapor of our breathing：呼吸时所吐出之气。人大抵于寒冷之处，始能“嘘气成云”。该地日光照及之处虽仍觉热，然空气实已稀薄而冷，已是高空景象。
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● Colder than you’d think：you’d之’d为would的缩写，隐含虚拟语气。我不知道你们对这边天气有什么想法，你们也许以为它是热，是不冷不热，是冷，总之，实际上比你们所想象的要冷些。
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I remember how Tommy Tucker danced on the rocky ledge, grinning and making whooping sounds. “I bet that’s where God lives,” he said, waving up to where the crags of the great headwall dissolved into the silver edge of a rolling cloud. “He sits up on one of those pinnacles and feels like the boss of all creation.” Then he cocked his head at John. ‘Just a dinky little foothill—I realize that. Out west God does things up much bigger—but of course he’s a much bigger guy out there than he is here.”
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“Well, you do get the effect of high mountains, I must admit,“said John.
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● rocky ledge：山崖之向外凸出部分。grinning：露齿而笑。whooping sounds：怪声大叫。
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● waving up to：手挥舞着向上指。crags：壁立巨石。the great headwall：他们所在之处是the Little Headwall；the great headwall应该是另一较大山峰，可是拼法不用大写，似为普通名词，并非专门名词，但虽为普通名词，作者心目中亦必专指某一山峰。headwall此字普通字典不载，想是山峰这一类的东西。dissolved：融解。巨石为浮云所掩，终消失于云边银光之中。I bet：我敢打赌。pinnacles：尖峰，“我敢说上帝就住在那边。他就坐在那边一座山峰之上，俯瞰万物，自己觉得真像是个万物之主。”
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● cocked his head：侧着头（这样说话，有讽刺之意）。
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● dinky（俚语）：微不足道，小意思。foothill：山麓之小丘。I realize that：这个我明白。John老说这座山不算一座山，而Tommy已经叹为观止，怕他又要来讥笑，赶快再向John说明一句：“我知道这不过是一座小土墩而已。在西部上帝做什么事情，气派都大得多——可是当然上帝在那边，当然也是大一号的人物，这里只好算是个小人物。”do up原义是“包扎、清理备用”，这里转作“创造”。请注意对白语气逼肖说话人的口吻，相当粗俗，与描写风景文章的典雅大不相同。
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● effect：效果；味道。“你能说得出这两句话来，我得承认你已经领略到高山的味道了。”
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We ate our lunch there where it was warm. Once a cloud-mass obscured the sun, and the shroud of winter settled over us—the harsh and purple cold; I remember how the chill touched my heart and sent a tremor through me of something deeper than cold.
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● there where it was warm=at the place where it was warm。他们挑暖和一点的地方，把午饭吃了。足见山上的冷已经相当可怕。
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● obscured：遮住。shroud：尸衣（给人阴森可怕的联想）。太阳一被遮住，立刻冬季降临，我们身上好像罩了一件死人袍子。我们感觉到一种严厉的冷，紫色的冷。太阳忽然隐去，大地景物，是会变成紫色的；又，紫色使人联想到冻僵的手足。注意前文的yellow warmth，与此地的purple cold正好遥遥相对，而一秋一冬，一日之内，气候之变化大矣。
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● chill：寒气。tremor：战栗。“我犹记得，寒气侵袭心头，全身一阵战栗，而所以致此之故，似犹不止寒冷也。”through me=through my body。of something deeper than cold形容tremor。“比冷更深的东西”是什么？是宇宙的神秘？是死亡的凶兆？作者并未明言，但当时确有此种感觉，现在照实写下而已。
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But the sun blazed again, and we pushed up against the funneled wind to the ravine and began the long climb to the top of the vast wall. And wondrous climbing it was, with sun still on our shoulders and small whirls and gusts of mountain wind, and the ocean of space deepening below us. John’s boots clashed on the rock, but he went up powerfully, muttering a chant of joy to himself and watching for the turns of the trail.
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● pushed up：向上爬。funnel：漏斗；funneled：四围约束，像在漏斗里漏过似的。山风为峡谷所制，势更猛烈，我们顶风而上，先过峡谷，然后开始向一座大山顶爬去。
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