The traveler from the coast, who, after plodding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn-lands, suddenly r

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问题 The traveler from the coast, who, after plodding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn-lands, suddenly reaches the verge of one of these escarpments, is surprised and delighted to behold, extended like a map beneath him, a country differing absolutely from that which he has passed through. Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colorless.
Here, in the valley, the world seems to be constructed upon a smaller and more delicate scale; the fields are mere paddocks, so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass. The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
The crimson brick lodge came first in sight, up to its eaves in dense evergreens. Tess thought this was the mansion itself till, passing through the side wicket with some trepidation, and onward to a point at which the drive took a turn, the house proper stood in full view. It was of recent erection—indeed almost new—and of the same rich red color that formed such a contrast with the evergreens of the lodge. Far behind the corner of the house—which rose like a geranium bloom against the subdued colors around—stretched the soft azure landscape of The Chase—a truly venerable tract of forest land, one of the few remaining woodlands in England of undoubted primaeval date, wherein Druidical mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew trees, not planted by the hand of man, grew as they had grown when they were pollarded for bows. All this sylvan antiquity, however, though visible from the Slopes, was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate.

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答案 那个从海岸走来的游客,向北面跋涉了二十英里的路程,才走完石灰质的草原和麦地。他突然走到一处悬崖的山脊上,看见一片田野就像一幅地图铺展在下面,同他刚才走过的地方决然不同,不禁又惊又喜。在他的身后,山峦尽收眼底,太阳照耀着广阔的田野,为那片风景增添了气势恢宏的特点,小路是白色的,树篱低矮盘结,大气也是清澈透明的。就在下面的山谷里,世界似乎是按照较小的但是更为精巧的规模建造的;田地只是一些围场,从高处看去,它们缩小了,所以灌木树篱就好像是用深绿色的线织成的网,铺展在浅绿色的草地上。下面的大气都懒洋洋的,染上了一层浅蓝,甚至连被艺术家称作中景的部分,也染上了那种颜色,但是远方的地平线染上的却是浓重的深蓝。 苔丝最先看见的是用红砖盖成的门房,然后才看见屋檐上长满的厚厚的长青藤蔓。苔丝以为这就是庄园本身;她怀着惶恐不安的心情走过偏门,走到车路转弯的地点,这时候,她才看见出现在眼前的庄园全貌。庄园是最近新盖的——几乎全是新的——它也是同样的深红颜色,同偏门长满的长青藤蔓形成鲜明对照。在周围浅淡柔和的颜色的对照下,它就像一簇天竺葵的红花突现在那儿;在屋角后面的远处,展现在眼前的是猎苑的一大片柔和的淡蓝色风景——的确是一片让人肃然起敬的森林,是英国残留下来的已经不多的原始森林中的一片;在古老的橡树上,仍然还找得到朱伊德槲寄生,林中茂密的水杉树不是人工栽种的,它们从人们把它们的枝条砍下来做弓箭的时候就生长在那里。但是,所有这些古老的森林,虽然从山坡上可以看见,但是却已经超越这片产业的边界了。

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