窗外 · 潇雨

为你读英语美文 · 第420期 主播：潇雨Outside the Window《窗外》作者：周瓒Often, I imagine lifting my head from the page.我时常想象自己抬起头，从书页上I imagine seeing a fraction of the sea,我想象自己，看到了一片海its field of blue, beyond the window's edge.有蓝色的液体，游过窗棂But all I glimpse is one small part of the ocean.但我所能领受的，只是一小片海域So I say to myself, that's not我告诉自己，那从来就不是its full depth or expanse—全部的深广，况且besides, I'm sitting in one place.我坐在一个固定的地方It alerts me, imagination has limits.它提醒我，想象，也不能是无限的I know it, too, must begin somewhere;想象有一个天然的出发点perhaps it has the freedom也许它有自由of the sea bird's wings—如海鸟一样的翅膀like those our soul covets—而我们的心灵能够offering us breaches,提供树枝feeding our daydreams on a perched fulcrum供白日的梦想，一个栖息的支点▎主播介绍潇雨：微博@豆沙包子露馅了▎公众号：为你读英语美文文章，音乐，图片非商业用途，版权归作者或版权方所有