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ometimes, on one of these sunny autumn mornings, when I turn my back on the town and take to the high-way, I seem to have the world to myself. I walk forward, as it were, into great sunlit emptiness. Once I am a little way out of the town it is as if the world has been swept clean of men. I pass a few young mothers, who are proudly usher-ing their  round-eyed solemn 2 babies into the presence of the morning sun, a lum-bering cart or two, and maybe a knot of labourers, who look up from their task with a humorous resignation in their faces; these and others I overtake and pass by, and then there is often an end to my fellows. I alone keep a lounging tryst with the sun, himself, I fancy, a mighty, genial idler and the father of all dreamers and idlers among men.
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A Road to Oneself
独行之路
文/约翰·博因顿·普里斯特利  译/朱建迅
By  John Boynton Priestley 1
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vaguely时候，在这样一个秋阳朗照的早晨，我转身背对城市走上公路之际，会觉得这世界仿佛为我一人所独有。我径自前行，好似步入一个洒满阳光的巨大空间。一旦我离开城市一小段路，世上的人们似乎就被一扫而空了。我会遇见几个年轻的母亲，她们骄傲地带着自己两眼圆睁、小脸紧绷的婴儿迎接晨光；会经过一两辆缓慢行进的运货马车；也许还会碰到一工人，他们停下活儿抬头瞧着什么，露出幽默达观的表情。我赶上并从他们旁边走过后，路上就常常再无别人了。为消磨时间，我独自来赴与太阳的约会，我把他想象成万能而和善的闲人，是全天下所有空想家和无所事事
1约翰·博因顿·普里斯特利（1894—1984），英国小说家、批评家、戏剧家。本文选自其著作《散文自选集》（Self-selected Essays ），笔调清新自然，语言优美流畅，思路活跃灵动，比喻新颖奇肆，意思表达上富于曲折变化。翻译时在文字和风格等方面多有值得推敲斟酌之处。  2译为“两眼圆睁、小脸紧绷”，增加动感，凸显婴儿憨态可掬的神态。

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