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The dusk came fast. Whether wind blew harder and colder I couldn’t tell, but I remember groping down into the dark stone crevices. And then after a while a new wave of light seemed to roll up from below and shone against the curtains of mist and roof of dark. And at once I rushed downward into the visible world and saw it stretched out clear and free in the evening light.
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● dusk：黄昏暮色。groping：摸索而行。crevices：隙缝。
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● a new wave of light：俄而一阵光浪，似自下界涌起，照耀上方；顶上虽云雾结幕，天宇暗黑，下界各物，反清晰可辨，我乃奋身下奔，脱离黑暗世界。夜色清朗，俯视大地山河，历历在目，无遮无拦，向四方伸展焉。
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Below the snow level I tried to move faster, but made only shambling progress. Some parts of me were frozen, and there were more bruises and wrenched joints than I had any notion of.
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Then a figure appeared in the trail below, and a voice called sharply. John Somes came up in a steady lope, his glistening face all tense and eager.
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“Ralph? Is Tommy there?”
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● snow level：雪线；这个高度以下就没有雪。shambling：蹒跚的，踉跄的。
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● bruises：青紫肿伤（此字i不发音）。wrenched joints：关节扭伤。我身上青一块紫一块的，关节也扭坏了好几处，我自己本来以为没有受这么多伤。
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● lope：缓步而跑。steady：步履稳定。John不愧经验丰富，反而先赶到下面去了。Ralph：即书中主人翁Ralph Garretson。
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They found him on the mountain next morning. He had fallen about fifty feet, had broken both legs and perished from cold.
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Meanwhile I had been bundled into a closed car and driven a hundred miles to a hospital, where I was kept for three days.
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● bundled：捆起，扎起。closed car：门窗关紧的汽车，想是救护车（ambulance）。
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现代英文选评注 Father and Daughter父与女
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James Yaffe (1927—？)
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作者姚弗乃美国作家。本文采自1957年9月份《大西洋月刊》。原题《只有傻瓜才生女儿》（“Only a Crazy Man Has Daughters”），文字轻松幽默，对白尤为传神，为家庭喜剧中之佳作。兹录其开头几段如下：
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When a father has a complaint to make about his son, all he has to do is take the boy aside and yell at him:
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“What do you mean by getting home at three o’clock in the morning? Your mother was worried to death!”
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“Twenty bucks? You want twenty bucks? My God, the way you spend my money, you could be the United States government.”
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“A car of your own? Listen to him, will you? He’s still wet behind the ears, and he wants a car of his own!”
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● to make a complaint：责备。complaint通常译作“诉苦”，但“诉苦”二字易滋误解；complaint只是使人不满意不愉快的事情，受了委屈固然是complaint，其他如儿子荒唐，天气冷热不调，火车误点，垃圾桶无人清理，日本渔船越界捕鱼等都可成为complaint，其表达方式则喃喃低诉与大声斥责均可。
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● all he has to do：all之后省去that一字，但是照英文口语的习惯，这个that以不加为妥。the boy：此二字极简单，但是用来很好。这里如用take him aside，则易与主语之he相混；如重复his son，则句法太累赘；如用the latter，则太像官样文章，风味大减；只有the boy二字，才是恰到好处。
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● 下面三小节都是父亲责备儿子的话：第一节是儿子深夜返家时说的。注意was worried用的是过去式。“你这么晚回来，你妈着急死了！”母亲的着急，是在儿子回来之前，故用过去式（到了家就不着急了）。这种时间先后关系，中文无需表出，学习时应特别注意。
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● bucks=dollars（美国俚语）。the way：此二字有介词的作用。“照你这样不断地问我要钱，你简直成了美国政府了。”（按：美国政府捐税苛杂之重，时为民众所诟病。）could be是虚拟式，这里不可以用直述式can be，因为一个人是永远不能成为一个政府的。
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