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Spring Sowing 春耕 作者：Liam OFlaherty ????? It was still?dark when Martin Delaney and his wife Mary got up. Martin stood in his shirt by the window a long time looking out, rubbing his eyes and yawning, while Mary raked out the live coals that had lain hidden in the ashes on the hearth all night. Outside, cocks were crowing and a white streak was rising from the ground, as it were, and beginning to scatter the darkness. It was a February morning, dry, cold and starry. ???马丁·德拉尼和他那口子玛丽起床时，天还黑着呢。马丁只披件衬衫，往窗外望了好一会儿，一边揉着眼，打着呵欠；玛丽则扒开炉灰，拣出下面焐了一宿的炭块子。屋外，公鸡在打鸣，天边露出一抹鱼肚白，夜色将散。这是一个二月的早晨，干燥，阴冷，满天星辰。 The couple sat down to their breakfast of tea, bread and butter, in silence. They had only been married the previous autumn and it was hateful leaving a warm bed in such an early hour. They both felt in a bad humour and ate, wrapped in their thoughts. Martin, with his brown hair and eyed, his frekled face and his little fair moustache, looked too young to be married, and his wife looked hardly more than a girl, red-cheeked and blue-eyes, her black hair piled at the rear of her head with a large comb gleaming in the middle of the pile, Spanish fashion. They were both dressed in rough homespuns, and both wore the loose white frieze shirt that Inverara peasants use for work in the fields. ???两口子开始坐下来吃早点，一言不发地喝着茶，啃着黄油面包。他们去年秋天刚结的婚；天还这么早就要从暖和的被窝里爬起来，真让人没好脾气。两人都没好兴致，一边吃，一边各怀心事。马丁有着褐色头发和褐色眼睛，脸上布满雀斑，下颌几根青嫩的胡须，长相上与已经结婚不太相称；他妻子看起来最多还是个姑娘，红脸颊，蓝眼睛，一头黑发盘在脑后，发结中插一把大梳子，闪闪发亮，——典型的西班牙式。俩人都穿着自家织做的粗布裤，和Inverara农民去田里干活时惯穿的宽松白绒衫。 They ate in silence, sleepy and bad-humoured and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day of their first spring sowing as man and wife. And each felt the glamour of that day on which they were to open up the earth together and plant seeds in it. So they sat in silence and bad humour, for somehow the imminece of an event that had been long expected, loved, feared and prepared for made them dejected. Mary, with her shrewd womans mind, munched her bread and butter a