最 美 的 情 书 作者：Gerald Durrell 朗诵：鲁侠客

禹之花

I have seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blue as a kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously.

我曾见过大海静谧如画。色似锦缎，或蓝如翠羽，或通透似玻璃，或乌色泛褶出泡沫，汹涌得沉重又狠恶。

禹之花

I have felt winds straight from the South Pole, bleak and wailing like a lost child; winds as tender and warm as a lover's breath; winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of seaweeds; winds that carried the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a million flowers; fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast; or winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten.

我曾感受过风，凛冽自南极而来，刺骨哀嚎，仿佛迷途的小孩。风，温柔和煦如爱人的呼吸；风，承载着盐与海藻湮灭的咸涩；风，充盈着森林土壤的气息，温润肥沃，芬芳，自百万花朵。狂风蹈海，如同发了酵起了沫，又或风驱着水波拍岸，猫咪轻扑一般。

禹之花

I have known silence: the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; the implacable stony silence of a deep cave; the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotized and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun; the silence when great music ends.

我曾知悉静默。那在一眼新井里的静默，冷冽且夹着泥土气味，深邃洞穴中的静默，冷酷决绝；酷热迷离，正午的静默，万物被当空烈日催眠，平息而至静默；静默，当天籁终了时。

禹之花

I have heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones.

我曾听夏日蝉嘶，那声声如芒刺骨。

禹之花

I have heard tree frogs in an orchestration as complicated as Bach, singing in a forest lit by a million emerald fireflies.

我曾听树蛙在林中咏唱，复杂严谨俨如巴赫，翠绿萤火虫为之燃起百万点亮光。

禹之花

I have seen Whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea, creating a Versailles of fountain with their breath.

我见过鲸鱼，黝似沥青，衬着矢车菊般蓝蓝的大海，他们一呼一吸之间，筑起凡尔赛的喷泉。

禹之花

I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun irons their swings smooth.

我见过蝴蝶破茧时危坐，颤栗着，任由阳光把鳞翼熨平。

禹之花

I have watched tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.

我见过虎，好似烈焰，在长草深处交欢。

禹之花

I have been dive-bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as a Devil's hoof.

我曾被愤怒的渡鸦俯冲轰炸，玄青浮光，似魔鬼之蹄。

禹之花

I have lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a host of Dolphins.

我曾躺在温润如奶、柔滑如丝的水中，以客道迎待周遭的海豚。