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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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● whirls：旋风。gusts：疾风。ocean of space：开阔的空间。
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● clashed：（鞋钉与山石相接触）叮叮发声。chant：歌。watching for the turns of the trail：留意山路转折之处。
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Ice appeared in shaded hollows. Some of the north rock faces were enameled with it.
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“Maybe you guys shouldn’t have sneakers,” John said. “They’re no good on ice.”
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“Clouds are lifting!” we shouted. Far ahead through a rift appeared a small dark nub that might have been the top itself.
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● rock faces：岩石的表面。enameled：像是涂珐琅似的结了一层冰。
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● sneakers（美国俗语）：橡皮底帆布鞋。他自己穿的是皮靴，上段已说过。
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● rift：云的缝隙。nub：馒头状地隆起一块，他们现在立足之处，已然见冰，可是主峰还是刚刚在云端里隐隐约约露出一小块而已。然而那里是不是就是主峰，现在还没有十分把握。
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But the wind had us. Not the gusty autumnal wind, nor the tree-bending, whirling blasts of earth—not anything known to men or the world of men; rather, it was the released power of all creation, the one irresistible force, a nothing so intensified and materialized and charged that up there on the high cone of the mountain it became the all. In wind like that, no other life existed.
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● 第一句的have（俗语）=hold at a disadvantage（此解根据The American College Dictionary）。风把我们“制住”了，或“吃住”了。
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● 山顶上的风非同小可，它不是劲疾的秋风，也不是地面上普通把树吹弯盘旋作势的狂风（blasts），这种风是人类从未见识过，人世也从未吹过的。它是宇宙万物所郁结的力量的总发泄（released），它是一种不可抵抗的力量，它本身空洞，并无一物（a nothing），可是在山顶尖峰（cone）高处，它的声势增强（intensified）了，它成了有形有体（materialized），它充满了活力（charge：充电），以致这种空无一物的风，在这里成宇宙间一切生命力量的总汇（the all）。在这种风底下，别无他种生物（草木鸟兽），风就是一切。
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We tried to duck back out of it and prepare. Caps, sweaters, jackets—we fumbled them on, feeling the touch of ice on our skin, in fingers and toes.
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Turn back? No one said it. Give it a try, anyway. There’s the top, right ahead—a straight and easy slope.
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● duck：低头闪避。prepare：准备应付。
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● fumbled them on：把它们瞎摸瞎拉地戴上穿上。
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● Give it a try, anyway：不管有风没风，还是往前走着瞧吧。主峰就在前面，山坡很平，不难走。
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We crouched, waiting and beginning to shiver. The wind blast would have to relent, we thought; nothing like that could keep on and on. Sun still shone and the sight of it warmed us. We couldn’t feel it.
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● crouched：佝偻着身子，等风过去，可是身上已经颤抖不已了。
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● relent：缓和。would：表示“将来”；have to：表示“一定”；风一定会缓和下来的，像这样猛烈的东西，不会永久维持下去的。
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● the sight of it warmed us：看见了太阳，心里还觉得有点温暖，可是实际上一点暖气都觉不到。
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So the plunge across the rock fields. Tommy shouted, and from the hiss of syllables I decided he was trying to say “excelsior!” Blood and sinews responded, pushed us buoyantly against the wall of wind. We had to bend low and breathe in quick gulps, turning our mouths under the lee of our shoulders. Our lungs felt the raw cold.
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