《激流》总序——巴金

1、我无论在什么地方总看见那一股生活的激流在动荡

Everywhere I go, I always see the torrent of life tumbling along to open up its way through a confused mass of mountains and rocks.

tumble:verb

If water tumbles, it flows quickly over an uneven surface.

Waterfalls crash and tumble over rocks. [VERB preposition]

...the aromatic pines and tumbling streams of the Zonba Plateau. [VERB-ing]

[Also VERB]

Synonyms: cascade, fall, flow, pour

补充：1. verb

If someone or something tumbles somewhere, they fall there with a rolling or bouncing movement.

A small boy tumbled off a third floor fire escape. [VERB preposition/adverb]

The dog had tumbled down the cliff. [VERB preposition/adverb]

He fell to the ground, and the gun tumbled out of his hand. [VERB preposition/adverb]

Synonyms: fall, drop, topple, plummet  

Tumble is also a noun.

He injured his ribs in a tumble from his horse. [+ from]

2. verb

If prices or levels of something are tumbling, they are decreasing rapidly.

[journalism]

House prices have tumbled by almost 30 per cent in real terms since mid-1989. [V + by/from/to]

Share prices continued to tumble today on the Tokyo stock market. [VERB]

...tumbling inflation. [VERB-ing]

[Also V amount]

Synonyms: fall steeply or sharply, fall, decline, crash [informal]   More Synonyms of tumble

Tumble is also a noun.

Oil prices took a tumble yesterday.

3. verb

If water tumbles, it flows quickly over an uneven surface.

Waterfalls crash and tumble over rocks. [VERB preposition]

...the aromatic pines and tumbling streams of the Zonba Plateau. [VERB-ing]

[Also VERB]

Synonyms: cascade, fall, flow, pour  

4. verb

If you say that someone tumbles into a situation or place, you mean that they get into it without being fully in control of themselves or knowing what they are doing.

[mainly British]

Many mothers and children tumble into poverty after divorce. [VERB + into]

There's no thought more pleasing than the prospect of tumbling into my apartment and slamming the door. [VERB into noun]

Synonyms: hurry, rush, bound, pile

2、这一切造成了奔腾的一股激流，具有排山之势，向着唯一的海流去，这唯一的海是什么，而且什么时候它才可以流到这海里，就没有人能够确定地知道了。

All that makes uo the tumultuous torrent rushing with terrific force towards the only sea.No one knows for sure what that only sea is and when the torrent is going to empty into it.

terrific

1. adjective

If you describe something or someone as terrific, you are very pleased with them or very impressed by them.

[informal]

What a terrific idea!

Everybody there was having a terrific time.

You look terrific, Ann. You really do.

Synonyms: excellent, great [informal] , wonderful, mean [slang]   

2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]

Terrific means very great in amount, degree, or intensity.

[emphasis]

He did a terrific amount of fundraising.

All of a sudden there was a terrific bang and a flash of smoke.

Synonyms: great, huge, vast, enormous 

terrifically (tərɪfɪkli  ) adverb [usually ADVERB adjective/-ed]

She really is terrifically pretty.

...the only child of terrifically repressed parents.

empty

verb

If someone empties a room or place, or if it empties, everyone that is in it goes away.

The stadium emptied at the end of the first day of athletics. [VERB]

...a woman who could empty a pub full of drunks just by lifting one fist. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: evacuate, clear, vacate, MT [text messaging]   

verb

A river or canal that empties into a lake, river, or sea flows into it.

The Washougal empties into the Columbia River near Portland. [VERB + into]

3、十多年 ten odd years

二十几个寒暑 twenty odd summers

odd

1. adjective

If you describe someone or something as odd, you think that they are strange or unusual.

He'd always been odd, but not to this extent.

What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family.

Something odd began to happen.

Synonyms: peculiar, strange, unusual, different  

oddly  adverb [ADVERB with verb , ADVERB adjective/-ed]

...an oddly shaped hill.

His own boss was behaving rather oddly.

oddness uncountable noun

Perhaps it was that very oddness that attracted me to Glen's music.

2.See also odd-looking

3. adjective

You use odd before a noun to indicate that you are not mentioning the type, size, or quality of something because it is not important.  临时的

...moving from place to place where she could find the odd bit of work.

He had various odd cleaning jobs around the place.

Synonyms: occasional, various, varied, random   

4. adverb

You use odd after a number to indicate that it is only approximate.

[informal]

How many pages was it, 500 odd?

He has now appeared in sixty odd films.

'How long have you lived here?'—'Twenty odd years.'

5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]

Odd numbers, such as 3 and 17, are those which cannot be divided exactly by the number two.

The odd numbers are on the left as you walk up the street.

There's an odd number of candidates.

6. adjective

You say that two things are odd when they do not belong to the same set or pair.

I'm wearing odd socks today by the way.

4、自然这里只有生活的一小部分，但已经可以看见那一股由爱与恨、欢乐与受苦所组织成的生活的激流是如何在动荡了。

Of course it reflecs only a small section of life, but enough, however, to afford a glimpse of the turbulent torrent of life with its love and hate, happiness and sorrow.

turbulent

1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]

A turbulent time, place, or relationship is one in which there is a lot of change, confusion, and disorder.

They had been together for five or six turbulent years of rows and reconciliations.

The turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics defies prediction.

Synonyms: wild, violent, disorderly, agitated   

2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]

Turbulent water or air contains strong currents which change direction suddenly.

I had to have a boat that could handle turbulent seas.

Synonyms: stormy, rough, raging, tempestuous