Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zem-bla, Iceland, Greenland, with“the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space, — that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme.”Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive. The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the bro-ken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.
还有些地方我也不能看都不看，一翻而过，那就是书中提到的拉普兰、西伯利亚、斯匹次卑尔根群岛、新地岛、冰岛和格陵兰荒凉的海岸。“广袤无垠的北极地带和那些阴凄凄的不毛之地，宛若冰雪的储存库。千万个寒冬所积聚成的坚硬冰原，像阿尔卑斯山的层层高峰，光滑晶莹，包围着地极，把与日俱增的严寒汇集于一处。”对这些惨白色的地区我形成了自己独特的印象，朦朦胧胧，就像所有那些似懂非懂的概念那样，它们隐约浮过孩子们的脑际，但却又出奇地生动。这些说明中的文字都跟后面伴随着的小插图息息相关，使得那孤立在浪花飞溅、波涛汹涌的大海中的礁石，搁浅在荒凉海岸上的破船，那从云带间俯视正在没入水中的沉舟的幽灵般冷漠的月亮，都显得更意味深长了。
I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite soli-tary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour eventiden.
我说不清一种什么样的情调弥漫在孤寂的墓地，那里有刻有铭文的墓碑，一扇大门，两棵树，被破墙围住的狭隘视野，以及表明时间已近黄昏的一弯初升的新月。
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