He turned to the Company. “We must do without hope,” he said. “At least we may yet be avenged. Let us gird ourselves and weep no more! Come! We have a long road, and much to do.”
他转身向远征队的成员说道：“即使没有希望，我们也必须坚持下去，”他说：“至少我们还有复仇的机会。坚强起来，擦干眼泪！来吧！我们眼前还有很长的道路，很多的事情要做。”
“Alas! I Fear we cannot stay here longer,” said Aragorn. He looked towards the mountains and held up his sword. “Farewell, Gandalf!” he cried. “Did I not say to you: if you pass the doors of Moria, beware? Alas that I spoke true! What hope have we without you?”
“唉！我们不能再待在此地感伤了。”阿拉贡说。他转向山脉的方向，高举圣剑。“再会了，甘道夫！”他大喊着：“我跟你说过，如果你进入摩瑞亚的大门，千万小心！没想到我的预感竟然应验了！没有了你，我们还有什么希望呢？”
They rose and looked about them. Northward the dale ran up into a glen of shadows between two great arms of the mountains, above which three white peaks were shining: Celebdil, Fanuidhol, Caradhras. the Mountains of Moria. At the head of the glen a torrent flowed like a white lace over an endless ladder of short falls, and a mist of foam hung in the air about the mountains’ feet.
他们站起身，环顾四周。谷地北方延伸入两座山之间的陰影中，在其上则是三座光辉闪耀的山峰：赛拉布迪尔、法怒德何、卡拉霍拉斯，这些就是构成摩瑞亚外观的三大山峰。在陰影之间的山脚下水气缭绕，如同薄纱包围着一连串如同阶梯般不断上升的瀑布。
“Yonder is the Dimrill Stair,” said Aragorn, pointing to the falls. “Down the deep-cloven way that climbs beside the torrent we should have come, if fortune had been kinder.”
“那就是丁瑞尔天梯！”阿拉贡指着瀑布说。“如果我们的命运没有这么乖违，我们应该是沿着那些瀑布进入这山谷。”
“Or Caradhras less cruel,” said Gimli. “There he stands smiling in the sun!” He shook his fist at the furthest of the snow-capped peaks and turned away.
“如果卡拉霍拉斯没有这么残酷就好了！”金雳忍不住说：“它竟然还能够冷笑着面对太陽，看着我们遭受的折磨！”他对着最远处的冰峰诅咒着，最后因太过激动而转头不愿再看那些山峰。
To the east the outflung arm of the mountains marched to a sudden end, and far lands could be descried beyond them, wide and vague. To the south the Misty Mountains receded endlessly as far as sight could reach. Less than a mile away, and a little below them, for they still stood high up on the west side of the dale, there lay a mere. It was long and oval, shaped like a great spear-head thrust deep into the northern glen; but its southern end was beyond the shadows under the sunlit sky. Yet its waters were dark: a deep blue like clear evening sky seen from a lamp-lit room. Its face was still and unruffled. About it lay a smooth sward, shelving down on all sides to its bare unbroken rim.
往东方看去，山脉的延伸突然间终止了，众人可以看见远方模糊的地形轮廓，在南边则是极目所见绵延不绝的迷雾山脉。不到一哩之外，略低于他们脚底的地方有另一座湖，那是座圆长形的大湖，看起来如同一支刺进北方谷地的槍尖一般。湖水的南半部已经脱离了山脉投射下的陰影，露出在陽光下。但湖水依旧十分幽暗，就像是从通火通明的房间，往外观看万里无云的暮色一样。湖水四周有着美丽的草地，将它包围成一个完整的弧形。
“There lies the Mirrormere, deep Kheled-zaram!” said Gimli sadly. “I remember that he said: “May you have joy of the sight! But we cannot linger there.” Now long shall I journey ere I have joy again. It is I that must hasten away, and he that must remain.”
“这就是镜影湖，幽深的卡雷德——萨雷姆！”金雳哀伤地说：“我还记得他告诉我：‘愿你见到它的时候能够获得平安喜乐！但我们没办法在那边耽搁太久的时间。’现在，我想我很久都不会再有平安喜乐了。不能耽搁的是我，他却必须永远留在那个鬼地方。”
The Company now went down the road from the Gates. It was rough and broken, fading to a winding track between heather and whin that thrust amid the cracking stones. But still it could be seen that once long ago a great paved way had wound upwards from the lowlands of the Dwarf-kingdom. In places there were ruined works of stone beside the path, and mounds of green topped with slender birches, or fir-trees sighing in the wind. An eastward bend led them hard by the sward of Mirrormere, and there not far from the roadside stood a single column broken at the top.
众人沿着大门外的小径继续往下走。小径十分狭窄，又因为年久失修而支离破碎，许多地方都掩没在杂草中。不过，依旧看得出来这里曾经是通往矮人王国的一条主要干道。在道路旁的许多地方还有岩石雕刻的作品，以及翠绿的桦树和迎风飘逸的枞树。一个往东的大转弯，让他们来到了镜影湖旁边的草地上，离小径不远的地方，矗立着一个顶端断裂的石柱。
“That is Durin’s Stone!” cried Gimli. “I cannot pass without turning aside for a moment to look at the wonder of the dale!”
“这就是都灵的础石！”金雳大喊道：“我临走之前，一定得再看看这里的美景！”
Beside the standing stone Gimli halted and looked up. It was cracked and weather-worn, and the faint runes upon its side could not be read. “This pillar marks the spot where Durin first looked in the Mirrormere,” said the dwarf. “Let us look ourselves once, ere we go!”
在那块都灵之础石旁，金雳停了下来，抬头看着。石柱历经风吹雨打，上面的符文也已经无法阅读。“这根石柱，是纪念是都灵第一次在这里俯瞰镜影湖。”矮人说：“在我们离开之前，绝对不可以错过这景象！”
“Come with me, Frodo!” cried the dwarf, springing from the road. “I would not have you go without seeing Kheled-zaram.” He ran down the long green slope. Frodo followed slowly, drawn by the still blue water in spite of hurt and weariness; Sam came up behind.
“跟我来吧，佛罗多！”矮人大喊着离开小径：“我可不能让你离开前没看过卡雷德——萨雷姆。”他沿着绿色的长坡往下跑，即使佛罗多又累又难过，他还是被那蓝色的湖水所深深吸引，山姆跟在他后面。
“Be swift then!” said Aragorn, looking back towards the Gates. “The Sun sinks early. The Orcs will not, maybe, come out till after dusk, but we must be far away before nightfall. The Moon is almost spent, and it will be dark tonight.”
“那就快一点吧！”阿拉贡回头看着摩瑞亚的大门：“太陽西沉得很快，或许在天黑之前那些半兽人不会出现，但我们一定得在日落前远离这个地方。今晚应该会是新月，大地会很黑暗的。”
They stooped over the dark water. At first they could see nothing. Then slowly they saw the forms of the encircling mountains mirrored in a profound blue, and the peaks were like plumes of white flame above them; beyond there was a space of sky. There like jewels sunk in the deep shone glinting stars, though sunlight was in the sky above. Of their own stooping forms no shadow could be seen.
他们弯腰看着黑色的湖水，一开始什么都看不到，接着慢慢地，他们看见了倒影在蓝色镜面中壮丽的群山，山峰如同顶端套上白色火焰一样雄伟，除此之外还有一大块蓝色的天空。即使天空中太陽依旧炙热，他们还是可以看见幽深的湖水中有着星辰闪烁，从他们低头的身影中看不见任何的陰影。
The road now turned south and went quickly downwards, running out from between the arms of the dale. Some way below the mere they came on a deep well of water, clear as crystal, from which a freshet fell over a stone lip and ran glistening and gurgling down a steep rocky channel.
这条路现在转向南，开始急速地下降，穿过了山谷两边合拢的臂弯。在距离镜影湖不远的地方，他们又找到了一池如同水晶一样清澈的清水，它们从池水的边缘一滴滴流下，落入一条深邃多岩的河道上。
“What did you see?” said Pippin to Sam, but Sam was too deep in thought to answer.
“你们看见了什么？”皮聘问山姆道，但陷入沉思的山姆没有空闲回答他。
“O Kheled-zaram fair and wonderful!” said Gimli. “There lies the Crown of Durin till he wakes. Farewell!” He bowed, and turned away, and hastened back up the green-sward to the road again.
“喔，美丽壮观的卡雷德——萨雷姆！”金雳说。“里面沉眠着都灵的皇冠，直到他苏醒为止。再会了！”他鞠躬为礼，接着急忙跑上山坡，再度回到路上。
“Soon it becomes a swift river, and it gathers water from many other mountain-streams,” said Aragorn. “Our road leads beside it for many miles. For I shall take you by the road that Gandalf chose, and first I hope to come to the woods where the Silverlode flows into the Great River-out yonder.” They looked as he pointed, and before them they could see the stream leaping down to the trough of the valley, and then running on and away into the lower lands, until it was lost in a golden haze.
“很快的，它就会变成一条湍急的河流，汇聚许多其他的山泉，”阿拉贡说：“我们的道路和它的路径有很长一段距离是相合的。因为我必须遵照甘道夫的遗志，率领各位沿着银光河往森林前进，前往它和大河安都因汇流的地方。”众人看着他指的方向，注意到小溪跳跃进山谷中，一路流向泛着金光的遥远彼端。
“Here is the spring from which the Silverlode rises.” said Gimli. “Do not drink of it! It is icy cold.”
“这就是银光河的源头，”金雳说：“别急着喝，它很冰哪！”
“My heart will be glad, even in the winter,” said Aragorn. “But it lies many miles away. Let us hasten! “
“即使在冬天，我也会感到无比的高兴！”阿拉贡说：“但我们还有许多哩的路要走。早点开始吧！”
“There lie the woods of Lothlorien!” said Legolas. “That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring comes and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey. So still our songs in Mirkwood say. My heart would be glad if I were beneath the eaves of that wood, and it were springtime! “
“那里就是罗斯洛立安森林！”勒苟拉斯惊叹道：“那是我族同胞所居住的最美丽地方，没有其他地方的树木能够生长得如同这里一样。即使是到了秋天，树叶也只是转成金黄，并不落下。只有到了春天新叶长出时，这些老叶才会落下，让枝丫上挂满黄花，森林的地面一片金黄；由于树干都是灰白色的，到了那时会构成一片金顶银柱的绝顶壮丽景象。我们幽暗密林的歌谣中依旧赞颂着这个地方，如果我们能够在春天站在那些树下，我的心必定会雀跃不已！”
For some time Frodo and Sam managed to keep up with the others; but Aragorn was leading them at a great pace, and after a while they lagged behind. They had eaten nothing since the early morning. Sam’s cut was burning like fire, and his head felt light. In spite of the shining sun the wind seemed chill after the warm darkness of Moria. He shivered. Frodo felt every step more painful and he gasped for breath.
刚开始，佛罗多和山姆还勉强可以跟上众人，但阿拉贡的步伐越来越快，不久之后他们就开始脱队。自从今天早上以后，他们就什么东西都没吃。山姆的割伤如同火烧一样热辣辣地疼痛，他觉得头重脚轻。即使天空高挂着太陽，但在经历过摩瑞亚的闷热之后，这里的空气似乎还是冷冰冰的，他忍不住打了个寒颤。佛罗多则是觉得每一步都很勉强，必须经常大口吸气才能跟上。
“I am sorry, Frodo!” he cried, full of concern. “So much has happened this day and we have such need of haste, that I have forgotten that you were hurt; and Sam too. You should have spoken. We have done nothing to ease you, as we ought, though all the orcs of Moria were after us. Come now! A little further on there is a place where we can rest for a little. There I will do what I can for you. Come, Boromir! We will carry them.”
“对不起，佛罗多，”他满怀关切地说：“今天发生了好多事情，我们又急着赶路，我根本忘记你和山姆都受伤了。即使摩瑞亚所有的半兽人都在后面追赶，我们也不该忘记这件事情。来吧！前面有块我们可以暂时休息的地方，我会在那边尽力帮助你的。来吧，波罗莫，我们抱他们走。”
Soon afterwards they came upon another stream that ran down from the west, and joined its bubbling water with the hurrying Silverlode. Together they plunged over a fall of green-hued stone, and foamed down into a dell. About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry. At the bottom there was a level space through which the stream flowed noisily over shining pebbles. Here they rested. It was now nearly three hours after noon, and they had come only a few miles from the Gates. Already the sun was westering.
很快地，他们又遇上了另外一条从西边而来，和奔流的银光河会合的小溪。它们沿着一道泛着绿光的瀑布往下流，流进一座小山谷。山谷之中有许多弯曲、低矮的枞树，小河两旁陡峭的山壁上长满了野生的莓子和许多苔藓。在河谷底则有一块平坦的区域，小河从旁边喧闹地流过，众人就在那一区停下脚步休息。现在大概是下午三点，他们只不过远离摩瑞亚的大门几哩左右，太陽也已经开始西沉了。
At last Legolas turned, and seeing them now far behind, he spoke to Aragorn. The others halted, and Aragorn ran back, calling to Boromir to come with him.
终于，勒苟拉斯转过头，发现他们已经远远地落后，于是赶快上前和阿拉贡说了几句话。其他人跟着停了下来，阿拉贡叫波罗莫跟着他一起跑回来。
“Good luck, Sam!” he said. “Many have received worse than this in payment for the slaying of their first orc. The cut is not poisoned, as the wounds of orc-blades too often are. It should heal well when I have tended it. Bathe it when Gimli has heated water.”
“山姆，你运气真不错！”他说：“许多人为了斩杀手下的第一名半兽人，受到了比你严重很多倍的伤。幸好对方的刀剑没有像一般半兽人一样淬毒。在我处理过之后，它应该可以很轻易地愈合。等金雳把水热开之后，你先用热水冲冲伤口。”
He opened his pouch and drew out some withered leaves. “They are dry and some of their virtue has one, he said, but here I have still some of the leaves of athelas that I gathered near Weathertop. Crush one in the water, and wash the wound clean, and I will bind it. Now it is your turn. Frodo! “
他打开背包，掏出一些干枯的叶子：“这些已经干掉了，一部分的药效也变得比较弱。”他说：“但是我身上还带着这些在风云顶附近找到的阿夕拉斯。把一片撕碎丢在水中，将伤口洗净，我就可以把它包扎起来。佛罗多，现在轮到你了！”
“No!” said Aragorn. “We must have a look and see what the hammer and the anvil have done to you. I still marvel that you are alive at all.” Gently he stripped off Frodo’s old jacket and worn tunic, and gave a gasp of wonder. Then he laughed. The silver corslet shimmered before his eyes like the light upon a rippling sea. Carefully he took it off and held it up, and the gems on it glittered like stars. and the sound of the shaken rings was like the tinkle of rain in a pool.
“不行！”阿拉贡坚持道：“我们一定得看看你之前所说的铁锤和铁砧，对你造成了什么伤害。我还是很惊讶你竟然可以活下来。”他小心翼翼地脱下佛罗多的旧夹克和破衬衫，接着倒抽一口冷气，然后他笑了，那银色的背心如同银色的海浪一般在他眼中波动。他小心地脱下那件背心，将缀满如星辰般白色宝石的锁子甲高举，只要一晃动，就可以听见如同骤雨落入池水般的清脆金属撞击声。
While Gimli and the two younger hobbits kindled a fire of brush — and fir-wood, and drew water, Aragorn tended Sam and Frodo. Sam’s wound was not deep, but it looked ugly, and Aragorn’s face was grave as he examined it. After a moment he looked up with relief.
金雳和其他两名哈比人，利用此地的灌木和枞树升起了一堆火，同时还从小溪中打水，阿拉贡照顾着山姆和佛罗多。山姆的伤口并不深，但看起来相当糟糕。阿拉贡检查伤口的时候神色非常凝重，过不了多久之后，他脸上的表情趋缓，松了一口气。
“I am all right,” said Frodo, reluctant to have his garments touched. “All I needed was some food and a little rest.”
“我没事，”佛罗多不愿意人家碰触他的衣服，深怕被人发现其中的秘密。“我只需要吃吃东西，休息一下就好了。”
“Look, my friends!” he called. “Here’s a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven-princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle-earth would be riding to the Shire.”
“看哪，朋友们！”他大喊着：“这层漂亮的哈比人皮都可以拿来装饰精灵了！如果人们知道哈比人有这种外皮，全世界的猎人一定都会快马加鞭地赶到夏尔去。”
“And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain,” said Gimli, gazing at the mail in wonder. “It is a mithril-coat. Mithril! I have never seen or heard tell of one so fair. Is this the coat that Gandalf spoke of? Then he undervalued it. But it was well given! “
“那些猎人的弓箭当然全部都失效喔！”金雳难以置信地瞪着眼前的奇观：“这是件秘银甲，秘银耶！我从来没看过、也没听过这么美丽的盔甲。这就是甘道夫所说的锁子甲吗？他一定低估了这真正的价值。幸好你穿在身上！”
There was a dark and blackened bruise on Frodo’s right side and breast. Under the mail there was a shirt of soft leather, but at one point the rings had been driven through it into the flesh. Frodo’s left side also was scored and bruised where he had been hurled against the wall. While the others set the food ready. Aragorn bathed the hurts with water in which athelas was steeped. The pungent fragrance filled the dell, and all those who stooped over the steaming water felt refreshed and strengthened. Soon Frodo felt the pain leave him, and his breath grew easy: though he was stiff and sore to the touch for many days. Aragorn bound some soft pads of cloth at his side.
佛罗多的腰际和右胸全都是黑紫色的淤青。在锁子甲底下有垫着一层软皮甲，不过，有个地方锁子甲还是承受不住这怪力，因而咬进肉里。佛罗多的左边身体因为撞上洞壁，也全都是擦伤和淤青。在其他人处理午餐的时候，阿拉贡用泡过阿夕拉斯的热水浸洗两人的伤口。一股让人神清气爽的香气飘满了整个河谷，围拢在沸水旁边的人们都觉得焕然一新、精力充沛。很快地，佛罗多觉得伤口不再疼痛，也不需要那么用力呼吸了；不过，被撞伤的地方接下来好几天，还是会很僵硬和酸痛，阿拉贡又在他的两侧腰际多绑了些软布。
“I have often wondered what you and Bilbo were doing, so close in his little room,” said Merry. “Bless the old hobbit! I love him more than ever. I hope we get a chance of telling him about it! “
“我常常怀疑，你和比尔博两人在那小房间里面干什么？”梅里说：“原来是这么一回事！祝福这个老哈比人！我快要爱死他了，真希望我们有机会可以告诉他这件事情。
It was dark. Deep night had fallen. There were many clear stars, hut the fast-waning moon would not be seen till late. Gimli and Frodo were at the rear, walking softly and not speaking, listening for any sound upon the road behind. At length Gimli broke the silence.
天色变得非常幽黑。现在已经是深夜了。天空中出现许多澄澈的星辰，一弯新月却直到很晚才出现。金雳和佛罗多殿后，轻巧地走着，彼此不敢随意交谈，都仔细地倾听着路边的一切声响。过了很长一段时间之后，金雳才打破了沉默。
When they had eaten, the Company got ready to go on. They put out the fire and hid all traces of it. Then climbing out of the dell they took to the road again. They had not gone far before the sun sank behind the westward heights and great shadows crept down the mountain-sides. Dusk veiled their feet, and mist rose in the hollows. Away in the east the evening light lay pale upon the dim lands of distant plain and wood. Sam and Frodo now feeling eased and greatly refreshed were able to go at a fair pace, and with only one brief halt Aragorn led the Company on for nearly three more hours.
远征队吃过饭之后，收拾好东西，准备继续上路。他们灭了火，掩盖一切的痕迹，然后爬出山谷，继续之前的路程。在太陽落入西方群山，陰影覆盖大地时，他们并没有走多远。暮色掩盖了他们脚下的土地，山谷中开始飘扬着薄雾。夜色中东方微弱的光芒照耀在一望无际的平原和森林中。山姆和佛罗多终于觉得身体已经好多了，可以用适当的步伐跟上大家的速度。阿拉贡就这么毫不留情的带领大家一连赶了三小时的路，中间只有短暂的休息过一次。
“The mail is marvellously light,” he said. “Put it on again, if you can bear it. My heart is glad to know that you have such a coat. Do not lay it aside, even in sleep, unless fortune brings you where you are safe for a while; and that will seldom chance while your quest lasts.”
“这件锁子甲真是轻得不得了！”他说：“如果你受得了，可以再穿上它。我很高兴你有穿着这层防护。即使在睡觉的时候也不要脱下它，除非你来到一个可以暂时高枕无忧的地方。但是，只要你的任务继续下去，这个可能性就非常低。”
“Not a sound but the wind,” he said. “There are no goblins near, or my ears are made of wood. It is to be hoped that the Orcs will be content with driving us from Moria. And maybe that was all their purpose, and they had nothing else to do with us-with the Ring. Though Orcs will often pursue foes for many leagues into the plain, if they have a fallen captain to avenge.”
“除了风声之外什么都没有，”他说：“除非我的耳朵是木头做的，我想附近应该根本没有任何敌人。希望半兽人把我们赶出摩瑞亚就满足了。或许，这一直都是他们的目的，和我们的魔戒没有关系。不过，如果半兽人是为了酋长复仇，他们会在平原上追杀敌人好几十哩之遥。”
Frodo did not answer. He looked at Sting, and the blade was dull. Yet he had heard something, or thought he had. As soon as the shadows had fallen about them and the road behind was dim, he had heard again the quick patter of feet. Even now he heard it. He turned swiftly. There were two tiny gleams of light behind, or for a moment he thought he saw them, but at once they slipped aside and vanished.
佛罗多没有回答。他看着刺针，宝剑黯沉无光，但他觉得自己彷佛听到了某些声响。随着陰影落下，身后陷入一片黑暗，他又再度听见了赤脚快速奔跑的声音。即使是在两人说话的时候，他还是听得见这声音。他猛地转过头，他觉得自己似乎看见了两个微小的光源，但很快就消失了。
“What is it?” said the dwarf.
“怎么搞的？”矮人问。
“I don’t know.” answered Frodo. “I thought I heard feet, and I thought I saw a light-like eyes. I have thought so often, since we first entered Moria.”
“我也不知道，”佛罗多回答：“我以为我听见了脚步声，还看见了像是眼睛一样的光芒。自从我们进入了摩瑞亚之后，我就经常听到这声音、看到这景象。”
Gimli halted and stooped to the ground. “I hear nothing but the night-speech of plant and stone,” he said. “Come! Let us hurry! The others are out of sight.”
金雳停下脚步，看着四周。“我只有听见风吹树梢和岩石与大地交谈的声音。”他说：“来吧，我们走快点，其他人都快要走不见了。”
“Lothlorien!” cried Legolas. “Lothlorien! We have come to the eaves of the Golden Wood. Alas that it is winter! “
“罗斯洛立安！”勒苟拉斯高兴地大喊：“罗斯洛立安！我们终于来到了黄金森林。真可惜现在是冬天！”
The night-wind blew chill up the valley to meet them. Before them a wide grey shadow loomed, and they heard an endless rustle of leaves like poplars in the breeze.
夜间清凉的微风吹入山谷间迎接他们。在他们眼前是一座巨大森林的灰色轮廓，他们可以听见树海中无边无际的树叶沙沙声。
Under the night the trees stood tall before them, arched over the road and stream that ran suddenly beneath their spreading boughs. In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold.
在夜色中那些参天古木看来十分安详，如同罗列的高墙一般将溪水吸纳进森林中。在微弱的星光下，这些树木的轮廓是灰色的，树叶则微微地泛金。
“If Elves indeed still dwell here in the darkening world,” said Gimli.
“前提是，精灵在乱世中还会居住在这里……”金雳说。
“Lothlorien!” said Aragorn. “Glad I am to hear again the wind in the trees! We are still little more than five leagues from the Gates, but we can go no further. Here let us hope that the virtue of the Elves will keep us tonight from the peril that comes behind.”
“罗斯洛立安！”阿拉贡说：“我真高兴可以再度听见微风吹过此地树梢的乐曲！我们距离摩瑞亚的大门才不过十五哩，但今晚已经不能再走了。我们只能在这边扎营，但愿精灵的力量可以保护我们免除邪恶的侵害。”
“It is long since any of my own folk journeyed hither back to the land whence we wandered in ages long ago,” said Legolas, “but we hear that Lorien is not yet deserted, for there is a secret power here that holds evil from the land. Nevertheless its folk are seldom seen, and maybe they dwell now deep in the woods and far from the northern border.”
“我族的同胞，已经很久没有回到过这个曾经是他们故乡的地方。”勒苟拉斯说：“但我们听说又被称作罗瑞安的罗斯洛立安并没有被舍弃，因为此地拥有一种驱赶邪恶力量的神秘力量。当然，极少有人看到其中的居民，他们可能都居住在森林中心的地方，距离这北边的边境还有很远的距离。”
“Say not unscathed, but if you say unchanged, then maybe you will speak the truth said Aragorn. But lore wanes in Gondor, Boromir, if in the city of those who once were wise they now speak evil of Lothlorien. Believe what you will, there is no other way for us — unless you would go back to Moria-gate, or scale the pathless mountains, or swim the Great River all alone.”
“不要说伤害，应该是改变，这样比较接近真相。”阿拉贡说：“波罗莫，如果一度睿智的钢铎，现在竟然将罗斯洛立安视作邪恶之地，那你们的传史真的没落了。不管你怎么想，我们眼前都没有其他的道路了。除非你愿意回到摩瑞亚、或是攀登险峻无路的高山，甚至是沿着大河一路游泳。”
He stepped forward; but Boromir stood irresolute and did not follow. “Is there no other way?” he said.
他往前踏出几步，但波罗莫犹豫不决地站着，没有跟上来。“没有其他的道路了吗？”他问。
“Indeed deep in the wood they dwell,” said Aragorn, and sighed as if some memory stirred in him. “We must fend for ourselves tonight. We will go forward a short way, until the trees are all about us, and then we will turn aside from the path and seek a place to rest in.”
“他们的确居住在很远的地方。”阿拉贡说道，他叹了口气，彷佛记起什么美丽的回忆：“我们今晚必须要照顾好自己才行，。我们必须继续往森林走一段距离，直到树木都将我们包围为止。然后我们会离开小径，找寻一个可以过夜的安全地方。”
“What other fairer way would you desire?” said Aragorn.
“你还想要去哪个更美丽的地方？”阿拉贡反问。
“A plain road, though it led through a hedge of swords,” said Boromir. “By strange paths has this Company been led, and so far to evil fortune. Against my will we passed under the shades of Moria, to our loss. And now we must enter the Golden Wood, you say. But of that perilous land we have heard in Gondor, and it is said that few come out who once go in; and of that few none have escaped unscathed.”
“我不需要美丽，只希望它是条平凡的道路，就算是通过刀山剑海我也愿意走。”波罗莫说：“但是远征队至今为止，每次踏上与众不同的道路，下场都是厄运缠身。大家不顾我的反对，踏入摩瑞亚，损失了我们的挚友。现在你说，我们又必须进入黄金森林。但是，我们在刚铎也听过这个地方；据说这里进得去出不来，即使勉强逃出，也会受到相当的伤害。”
“Follow me!” he cried. “The water is not deep. Let us wade across! On the further bank we can rest. and the sound of the falling water may bring us sleep and forgetfulness of grief.”
“跟我来！”他大喊着：“水并不深，我们可以直接涉水过河！等下可以在河岸对面休息，瀑布的水声或许可以让我们暂时忘却哀伤和疲倦。”
“Perilous indeed,” said Aragorn, “fair and perilous; but only evil need fear it, or those who bring some evil with them. Follow me! “
“的确很危险！”阿拉贡说：“美丽而且危险。但只有邪恶，或是带领邪恶力量进入的人才需要害怕。跟我来！”
“Then lead on!” said Boromir. “But it is perilous.”
“那就带路吧！”波罗莫说：“但我还是觉得很危险。”
“Here is Nimrodel!” said Legolas. “Of this stream the Silvan Elves made many songs long ago, and still we sing them in the North, remembering the rainbow on its falls, and the golden flowers that floated in its foam. All is dark now and the Bridge of Nimrodel is broken down. I will bathe my feet, for it is said that the water is healing to the weary.” He went forward and climbed down the deep-cloven bank and stepped into the stream.
“这是宁若戴尔河！”勒苟拉斯说。“森林精灵（译注一）为了这条河做了很多歌谣，我们在北方依旧记得这里美丽的虹彩，以及空气中漂浮的金色花瓣，因此依旧传唱着这些歌谣。但在这乱世中，宁若戴尔河的桥梁已经断折。我要在这里泡泡脚，据说这河水对于治疗疲倦有奇效。”他一马当先地跳下河岸，踏入河水中。
They had gone little more than a mile into the forest when they came upon another stream flowing down swiftly from the tree-clad slopes that climbed back westward towards the mountains. They heard it splashing over a fall away among the shadows on their right. Its dark hurrying waters ran across the path before them, and joined the Silverlode in a swirl of dim pools among the roots of trees.
他们又走了一哩多，这才遇到另一条从满布林木的翠绿山坡流下的小溪。他们听见右边陰影中传来瀑布的声响，湍急的流水则是快速地流过他们面前，在树根之下和银光河汇流。
When all the Company had crossed, they sat and rested and ate a little food; and Legolas told them tales of Lothlorien that the Elves of Mirkwood still kept in their hearts, of sunlight and starlight upon the meadows by the Great River before the world was grey.
在所有的人都跨越小河之后，他们坐了下来，在吃了一些食物之后，勒苟拉斯告诉他们幽暗密林精灵们依旧难以割舍的，众多有关这里的故事。那时人类还没出现，陽光和星光自由自在地照耀在大河安都瑞尔两岸的草地上。
One by one they climbed down and followed Legolas. For a moment Frodo stood near the brink and let the water flow over his tired feet. It was cold but its touch was clean, and as he went on and it mounted to his knees, he felt that the stain of travel and all weariness was washed from his limbs.
他们一个接一个地爬下河岸，跟随勒苟拉斯。佛罗多站在溪水中，让溪水冲过他的小脚。河水十分冰冷，但也十分清澈；随着他的脚步，溪水慢慢涨到他的膝盖。他感觉到一路上旅途所沾染的尘埃和疲倦，都在这透心凉的冰水中被洗去。
At length a silence fell, and they heard the music of the waterfall running sweetly in the shadows. Almost Frodo fancied that he could hear a voice singing, mingled with the sound of the water.
过了很长一段时间，他们沉默下来，倾听着流水在陰影中流动的甜美乐章。佛罗多几乎以为自己可以听见有声音和水声应和着在唱歌。
“Do you hear the voice of Nimrodel?” asked Legolas. “I will sing you a song of the maiden Nimrodel, who bore the same name as the stream beside which she lived lung ago. It is a fair song in our woodland tongue; but this is how it runs in the Westron Speech, as some in Rivendell now sing it.” In a soft voice hardly to be heard amid the rustle of the leaves above them he began:
“你们听见了宁若戴尔河的声音了吗？”勒苟拉斯问道：“我唱首有关宁若戴尔小姐的故事，她许久之前就居住在这条和她同名的溪水旁。在我们森林的语言中这十分的美丽，我把它翻译成西方语，如同瑞文戴尔的人吟唱它的习惯。”在树叶的沙沙声中，他开始用十分温柔的声音唱道：
In sunlight or in shade;
不管是在陽光下或是在陰影中；
A shining star by day:
穿着银灰色的丝履；
Now low beyond the swell,
现在已经遥不可及，
Beside the falls of Nimrodel,
在宁若戴尔瀑布旁，
The mountains sinking grey
山脉缓缓沉没，
Into the shining pool.
落在闪亮的池边。
Her voice as falling silver fell
她的声音如同银铃响，
her limbs were white,
双手雪白，
Amroth beheld the fading shore
安罗斯看着远去的海岸，
For lost of yore was Nimrodel
因为宁若戴尔就此迷散四处，
And drove the ship from elven-strands
将船只吹得离岸翻飞，
Awaited her for many a day
静候许多天却无人出现，
And in the wind she went as light
她在风中如同轻风般摇摆，
When dawn came dim the land was lost,
曙光初出大地已失，
Their plumes of blinding spray.
浪花也在半空中撞破。
Across the streaming tide.
窜出灰色的港岸。
A star was bound upon her brows,
一颗星紧贴在她的眉毛上，
Her shoes of silver-grey.
她的眉宇间有着星辰闪烁。
And fair she was and free;
自由自在又美丽；
An Elven-maid there was of old,
远古的精灵美女，如同白日闪亮的星辰，
A light was on her hair
光芒照耀她的发丝，
Beside the roaring sea.
海岸的浪花无情地拍打。
Beyond the heaving waves that tossed
汹涌的巨浪将衣物溅湿，
In Lorien the fair.
在那美丽的洛立安罗斯。
A wind by night in Northern lands
北地的夜风一吹，
As sun upon the golden boughs
陽光射在树干如琥珀，
Where now she wanders none can tell,
今日无人知晓她曾漫游之处，
The elven-ship in haven grey
精灵的船只出现在灰港岸，
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,
披着黄金镶边白斗篷，出现在清晨。
Beneath the mountain-lee
就在那神秘的山脉下，
Arose, and loud it cried,
惊醒了莫名的哭喊，
By water clear and cool,
清澈冰冷的水边，
And in the mountains strayed.
消失在山脉中。
As leaf of linden-tree.
如同椴树枝叶般旖旎。
Her hair was long,
她的长发飘逸，
The voice of Legolas faltered, and the song ceased. “I cannot sing any more,” he said. “That is but a part, for I have forgotten much. It is long and sad, for it tells how sorrow came upon Lothlorien, Lorien of the Blossom, when the Dwarves awakened evil in the mountains.”
勒苟拉斯哽咽地唱不下去了。“我不能再唱了！”他说：“这只是其中的一部分，我已经忘记很多。这是首很长、很凄美的歌谣，其中描述着矮人在山脉中唤醒邪恶之后，悲剧如何来到罗斯洛立安，来到这遍地花朵的罗瑞安。”
And cursed the faithless ship that bore
诅咒这无情的船只怎可离岸，
Of old he was an Elven-king,
古代他是精灵王，
When golden were the boughs in spring
春天的树木兴旺，
The foam about him shone;
浪花在他身上闪亮；
In fair Lothlorien.
在那美丽的罗斯洛立安之土。
Him far from Nimrodel.
让他与宁若戴尔远离。
From helm to sea they saw him leap,
他们看见他跳下海中，
Of Amroth evermore.
安罗斯从此碎心。
“I said not so; yet evil came,” answered Legolas sadly. “Then many of the Elves of Nimrodel’s kindred left their dwellings and departed and she was lost far in the South, in the passes of the White Mountains; and she came not to the ship where Amroth her lover waited for her. But in the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the falls that bear her name. And when the wind is in the South the voice of Amroth comes up from the sea; for Nimrodel flows into Silverlode, that Elves call Celebrant, and Celebrant into Anduin the Great. and Anduin flows into the Bay of Belfalas whence the Elves of Lorien set sail. But neither Nimrodel nor Amroth ever came back.
“我没有这样说，但邪恶还是来了。”勒苟拉斯哀伤地回答：“许多宁若戴尔的同胞离开了自己的居所，她在极南的白色山脉中失踪了，再也无法前往爱人安罗斯等待的船上。但是，当春天，风吹到这些新叶上的时候，我们依旧可以从和她同名的瀑布中听见她的声音，而当南风吹来的时候，安罗斯的声音会从海上飘来。宁若戴尔河流入银光河，也就是精灵所称呼的赛勒布兰特河，而赛勒布兰特河又流入大河安都因，安都因则会流入罗瑞安精灵扬帆出海的贝尔法拉湾。不论是宁若戴尔或是安罗斯，都再也没有回来过。”
As arrow from the string,
如同箭矢离弦，
Go riding like a swan.
如同飞马奔驰在海上。
And on the Hither Shore
海岸上也渺无音讯，
Afar they saw him strong and fair
他们看见他的强壮美丽啊，
No tidings Elven-folk have heard
精灵们从此再也不能听见他的呼吸，
The wind was in his flowing hair,
风吹拂他飞散的长发，
And dive into the water deep,
只为那两人的情钟，
But from the West has come no word,
西方毫无他的消息，
“But the Dwarves did not make the evil,” said Gimli.
“但那邪恶并非是矮人的错，”金雳说。
As mew upon the wing.
遁入海中从此无缘。
A lord of tree and glen,
谷地和树木之主，
“Your words bring good counsel, Gimli,” said Aragorn. “We cannot build a house, but tonight we will do as the Galadhrim and seek refuge in the tree-tops, if we can. We have sat here beside the road already longer than was wise.”
“金雳，你说得很有道理，”阿拉贡说：“我们不会建造树屋，但如果可以的话，今晚可以像是树民一样居住在树上，我们已经在这路边待得太久了。”
“And even in these latter days dwelling in the trees might be thought safer than sitting on the ground,” said Gimli. He looked across the stream to the road that led back to Dimrill Dale, and then up into the roof of dark boughs above.
“即使在那些日子之后，居住在树上可能也比坐在地上安全，”金雳说。他回头看着从丁瑞尔河谷一路流来的河水，再抬头看着黑暗的树顶。
The Company now turned aside from the path, and went into the shadow of the deeper woods, westward along the mountain-stream away from Silverlode. Not far from the falls of Nimrodel they found a cluster of trees, some of which overhung the stream. Their great grey trunks were of mighty girth, but their height could not be guessed.
众人现在远离小径，开始深入树林的陰影中，往西走，远离银光河的主流。他们在距离宁若戴尔瀑布不远的地方，找到几株聚集的树木。这些巨木都非常庞大，甚至高到看不见顶。
“It is told that she had a house built in the branches of a tree that grew near the falls; for that was the custom of the Elves of Lorien, to dwell in the trees, and maybe it is so still. Therefore they were called the Galadhrim, the Tree-people. Deep in their forest the trees are very great. The people of the woods did not delve in the ground like Dwarves, nor build strong places of stone before the Shadow came.”
“据说她曾经在靠近瀑布的地方，于树上搭建了一栋屋子；因为这是罗瑞安精灵的习惯，搭建树屋居住在其上，或许现在也还是这样。因此，人们称呼他们为凯兰崔姆，树民。在森林的深处有十分高大的巨，居住在森林里的人们不像矮人一样挖地居住，魔影出现之前也不会建造石制的堡垒。”
“Stand still!” he whispered to the others. “Do not move or speak! “
“统统不要动！”他对其他人低语道。“不要开口，不要动！”
“I will climb up,” said Legolas. “I am at home among trees, by root or bough, though these trees are of a kind strange to me, save as a name in song. Mellyrn they are called, and are those that bear the yellow blossom, but I have never climbed in one. I will see now what is their shape and way of growth.”
“由我来爬上去，”勒苟拉斯说：“不管是树下或是树上，都是我的老家。虽然这些树木对我有些陌生，只出现在歌谣的记载中。他们叫作梅隆树，意思是说它们会结黄花。但我从来没爬过这类树木，让我先看看它们的形状和生长的方向。”
“Then dig a hole in the ground,” said Legolas, “if that is more after the fashion of your kind. But you must dig swift and deep, if you wish to hide from Orcs.” He sprang lightly up from the ground and caught a branch that grew from the trunk high above his head. But even as he swung there for a moment, a voice spoke suddenly from the tree-shadows above him.
“那你可以在地上挖个洞，”勒苟拉斯没好气地说：“如果你们比较喜欢这样，那就尽管做。但如果你们想要躲开半兽人的追杀，手脚就得俐落点。”他轻而易举地跳了起来，抓住枝丫，一晃就摇到更上层的树枝去。但正当他摇晃着身体，想要继续往上摆汤的时候，树影中突然传来一个声音。
“Whatever it may be,” said Pippin, “they will be marvellous trees indeed if they can offer any rest at night, except to birds. I cannot sleep on a perch! “
“不管它们是什么树，”皮聘说：“如果它们可以让人在上面睡觉就真的很诡异了，只有鸟可以吧！我可不准备在树上睡觉啊！”
“Daro!” it said in commanding tone, and Legolas dropped back to earth in surprise and fear. He shrank against the bole of the tree.
“Daro！”有个声音命令道，勒苟拉斯跳回地面，露出惊讶、恐惧的表情，他靠在树干上动也不动。
There was a sound of soft laughter over their heads, and then another clear voice spoke in an elven-tongue. Frodo could understand little of what was said, for the speech that the Silvan folk east of the mountains used among themselves was unlike that of the West. Legolas looked up and answered in the same language.*
他们头上的树顶传来轻笑声，以及另外一个操精灵口音的声音。佛罗多听不太懂对方在说些什么，因为迷雾山脉东边的森林精灵和西边的精灵所使用的语言并不相同。勒苟拉斯抬起头，用同样的语言回答。
“Who are they, and what do they say?” asked Merry.
“他们是谁？又说些什么？”梅里问道。
“Yes, they are Elves,” said Legolas; “and they say that you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark.” Sam hastily put his hand over his mouth. “But they say also that you need have no fear. They have been aware of us for a long while. They heard my voice across the Nimrodel, and knew that I was one of their Northern kindred, and therefore they did not hinder our crossing; and afterwards they heard my song. Now they bid me climb up with Frodo; for they seem to have had some tidings of him and of our journey. The others they ask to wait a little and to keep watch at the foot of the tree, until they have decided what is to be done.”
“没错，他们是精灵，”勒苟拉斯说：“他们还说你们的呼吸声大到让他们可以在黑暗中瞄准你们。”山姆急忙用手捂住嘴巴。“但他们也说你们不需要害怕，他们已经发现我们很长的一段时间了。他们在宁若戴尔的对岸就听见我的声音，知道我是他们北方的同胞，因此他们没有阻挡我们过河；在那之后他又听到了我的歌声。现在，他们要求我和佛罗多一起爬上去，因为他们似乎有些关于他和我们冒险相关的消息。他要求其他人在树底下暂时等一下，等他们决定到底该怎么做。”
“They’re Elves,” said Sam. “Can’t you hear their voices? “
“他们是精灵！”山姆说：“难道你听不出来他们的声音吗？”
When Frodo came at last up on to the flet he found Legolas seated with three other Elves. They were clad in shadowy-grey, and could not be seen among the tree-stems, unless they moved suddenly. They stood up, and one of them uncovered a small lamp that gave out a slender silver beam. He held it up, looking at Frodo’s face, and Sam’s. Then he shut off the light again, and spoke words of welcome in his elven-tongue. Frodo spoke haltingly in return.
当佛罗多最后终于上到了望台时，他发现勒苟拉斯和另外三名精灵坐在一起。这些精灵都穿着暗灰色的衣服，除非他们突然行动，否则在树木的陰影中是完全没办法发现他们的。他们站了起来，其中一人拿出一盏发出银光的油灯。他举着油灯，照着山姆和佛罗多的脸。然后他把油灯的机关关上，用精灵语欢迎他们的到来，佛罗多有些迟疑地回应他们。
Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked slender it proved strong enough to bear many men. Legolas ran lightly up, and Frodo followed slowly; behind came Sam trying not to breathe loudly. The branches of the mallorn-tree grew out nearly straight from the trunk, and then swept upward; but near the top the main stem divided into a crown of many boughs, and among these they found that there had been built a wooden platform, or flet as such things were called in those days: the Elves called it a talan. It was reached by a round hole in the centre through which the ladder passed.
从陰影中降下一条绳梯，那是由一种银灰色，在黑暗中闪闪发光的材料所做的。虽然它看起来很纤细，但却可以承受好几个人的体重。勒苟拉斯飞快地爬上去，佛罗多则是小心翼翼地跟在后面。山姆是屏住呼吸，十分谨慎地跟着。梅隆树的枝丫几乎和树木本身垂直，因此他们上去的时候必须小心不被枝丫撞到。不过，到了顶端，枝干分岔开来，构成了一个许多分枝的平坦区域，在这一块区域上他们又看到有人造了一块木制的平台，过去被叫作了望台，精灵们则是称呼它为塔兰。他们透过平台中央的的一个孔穴出入，绳梯就是从这边垂下来的。
“Eight,” said Legolas. “Myself, four hobbits; and two men, one of whom, Aragorn, is an Elf-friend of the folk of Westernesse.”
“八名，”勒苟拉斯说：“我、四名哈比人、两名人类，其中一名是阿拉贡，拥有精灵之友的西方皇族血统。”
“But we have heard rumours of your coming, for the messengers of Elrond passed by Lorien on their way home up the Dimrill Stair. We had not heard of hobbits, or halflings, for many a long year, and did not know that any yet dwelt in Middle-earth. You do not look evil! And since you come with an Elf of our kindred, we are willing to befriend you, as Elrond asked; though it is not our custom to lead strangers through our land. But you must stay here tonight. How many are you? “
“但我们已经听说了你们前来的消息，因为爱隆的信差在从丁瑞尔天梯回去的路上曾经过这边。我们已经有很多年没听过哈比人、半身人这类的种族了，而且也不知道他们是否还居住在这个世界上。你们看起来并不邪恶嘛！既然你们和我们的精灵同胞一起来，我们愿意遵照爱隆的请求，和你交个朋友。我们一般来说通常不会领着陌生人穿越这块土地，这次我们会为你破例。不过，你们今天晚上就必须住在这里了。你们有多少人？”
“Welcome!” the Elf then said again in the Common Language, speaking slowly. “We seldom use any tongue but our own; for we dwell now in the heart of the forest, and do not willingly have dealings with any other folk. Even our own kindred in the North are sundered from us. But there are some of us still who go abroad for the gathering of news and the watching of our enemies, and they speak the languages of other lands. I am one. Haldir is my name. My brothers, Rumil and Orophin, speak little of your tongue.
“欢迎！”这些精灵接着切换到通用语，说的速度十分缓慢：“除了自己的语言之外，我们极少使用外来的语言，因为我们通常都居住在森林深处，不愿和外人有任何的接触。即使是我们北方的同胞也与我们分离已久。幸好，我们之中依旧有些人必须到外地去收集情报、监控我们的敌人，因此懂得外界的语言。我就是其中一个，我叫作哈尔达，我的兄弟卢米尔和欧洛芬，却不太熟悉你们的语言。”
“The eighth is a dwarf,” said Legolas.
“第八名是个矮人。”勒苟拉斯不情愿地说。
“The name of Aragorn son of Arathorn is known in Lorien,” said Haldir, “and he has the favour of the Lady. All then is well. But you have yet spoken only of seven.”
“我们在罗瑞安，听过亚拉松之子阿拉贡的名号，”哈尔达说：“我们的女皇十分信任他，看起来一切都没问题。不过，你怎么只有提到七个人？”
“But he is from the Lonely Mountain, one of Dain’s trusty people, and friendly to Elrond,” said Frodo. “Elrond himself chose him to be one of our companions, and he has been brave and faithful.”
“但他是来自孤山，是可靠的丹恩之子民，也是爱隆的朋友，”佛罗多说：“爱隆亲自挑选他成为我们的同伴，他一直都很值得信任，并且展现出过人的勇气。”
“A dwarf!” said Haldir. “That is not well. We have not had dealings with the Dwarves since the Dark Days. They are not permitted in our land. I cannot allow him to pass.”
“矮人！”哈尔达震惊地表示：“这就不好了。自从黑暗年代以来，我们就没有和矮人打过交道了。我们不准矮人踏上这块土地，我不能让他通过。”
The Elves spoke together in soft voices, and questioned Legolas in their own tongue. “Very good,” said Haldir at last. “We will do this, though it is against our liking. If Aragorn and Legolas will guard him, and answer for him, he shall pass; but he must go blindfold through Lothlorien.”
三名森林精灵交头接耳了一阵子，用他们自己的语言质问勒苟拉斯。“好吧！”哈尔达最后才勉强说：“虽然我们并不喜欢这样的结果，但看来我们别无选择。如果阿拉贡和勒苟拉斯愿意监管他，替他的行为负责，他就可以通过，但我们必须要蒙上他的眼睛。”
“But now we must debate no longer. Your folk must not remain on the ground. We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north toward Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago. Wolves are howling on the wood’s borders. If you have indeed come from Moria, the peril cannot be far behind. Tomorrow early you must go on.
“不要再争辩了，你们必须留在这里。自从许多天前，我们看见一大群的半兽人往北朝向摩瑞亚，沿着山脉边缘行军之后，这里的警备就加强了许多。恶狼竟然胆敢在森林的边缘嗥叫，让我们很担心。如果你们真的是来自摩瑞亚，那么危机并没有远离你们，明天一早你们就必须赶快出发。
“You had no need of your burdens,” said Haldir. “It is cold in the tree-tops in winter, though the wind tonight is in the South; but we have food and drink to give you that will drive away the night-chill, and we have skins and cloaks to spare.”
“你们不需要把那些笨重的东西带上来，”哈尔达说：“冬天树顶的确有点冷，不过今天晚上吹着温暖的南风。而且，我们还有食物和饮料，可以驱走寒意，除此之外，我们也有多的斗篷和衣物可以借你们用。”
“There!” said Merry panting. “We have lugged up your blankets as well as our own. Strider has hidden all the rest of the baggage in a deep drift of leaves.”
“哪！”梅里喘着气说：“我们把你们那一份的毯子和我们自己的毯子都搬上来了，神行客把其他的行李都藏在很厚的干叶子底下。”
“The four hobbits shall climb up here and stay with us-we do not fear them! There is another talan in the next tree. There the others must take refuge. You, Legolas, must answer to us for them. Call us, if anything is amiss! And have an eye on that dwarf!”
“那四名哈比人可以爬上来和我们一起睡，因为我们并不担心他们。旁边的树上有另外一个了望台，其他人必须待在那里。你，勒苟拉斯，必须为你朋友们的行为向我们负责。如果出了任何问题，只管叫我们！随时注意那名矮人！”
The hobbits accepted this second (and far better) supper very gladly. Then they wrapped themselves warmly, not only in the fur-cloaks of the Elves, but in their own blankets as well, and tried to go to sleep. But weary as they were only Sam found that easy to do. Hobbits do not like heights, and do not sleep upstairs, even when they have any stairs. The flet was not at all to their liking as a bedroom. It had no walls. not even a rail; only on one side was there a light plaited screen, which could be moved and fixed in different places according to the wind.
哈比人毫不客气的接受了第二顿更为丰富的晚餐，然后他们将自己紧紧地裹在精灵的斗篷和自己带来的毯子里面，试着想要睡觉。不过，虽然他们累得不得了，但只有山姆很轻松地睡着了。哈比人怕高，即使他们的屋子里面有楼梯，也绝对不睡在二楼。这个了望台跟他们理想中的卧室实在不一样——没有墙壁、甚至连栏杆都没有，只有一边有面薄薄的廉幕，可以视风向而调整。
Legolas at once went down the ladder to take Haldir’s message; and soon afterwards Merry and Pippin clambered up on to the high flet. They were out of breath and seemed rather scared.
勒苟拉斯立刻爬下楼梯，传达哈尔达的讯息。梅里和皮聘一听到好消息就立刻爬上绳，当他们爬上去之后，似乎有点害怕和喘不过气来。
Pippin went on talking for a while. “I hope, if I do go to sleep in this bed-loft, that I shan’t roll off,” he said.
皮聘因为害怕，继续唠唠叨叨地罗唆了一段时间：“我希望如果在这里睡着，不会滚下去，”他说。
“Once I do get to sleep,” said Sam, “i shall go on sleeping, whether I roll off or no. And the less said, the sooner I’ll drop off, if you take my meaning.”
“我一旦睡着，”山姆说：“不管是不是滚下去，我一定会继续睡。咳咳，话说得越多，就睡得越少啊，希望你懂我的暗示。”
Frodo lay for some time awake, and looked up at the stars glinting through the pale roof of quivering leaves. Sam was snoring at his side long before he himself closed his eyes. He could dimly see the grey forms of two elves sitting motionless with their arms about their knees, speaking in whispers. The other had gone down to take up his watch on one of the lower branches. At last lulled by the wind in the boughs above, and the sweet murmur of the falls of Nimrodel below, Frodo fell asleep with the song of Legolas running in his mind.
佛罗多又躺了一会儿，看着树顶稀疏树叶之外的明亮星辰。在他闭眼之前，山姆就已经开始打鼾。他依稀可以看见两名精灵动也不动地盘腿坐着，低声交谈。第三名精灵则是爬到下面一层枝丫去继续守望的工作。最后，他终于在宁若戴尔的呢喃和微风的吹拂下睡着了，耳边彷佛还不停听见勒苟拉斯唱的歌。
Late in the night he awoke. The other hobbits were asleep. The Elves were gone. The sickle Moon was gleaming dimly among the leaves. The wind was still. A little way off he heard a harsh laugh and the tread of many feet on the ground below. There was a ring of metal. The sounds died slowly away, and seemed to go southward, on into the wood.
稍晚的时候，他突然醒了过来，其他哈比人都还在睡觉，精灵们则消失了。一弯新月透过树叶间的空隙洒下月光，风也停了下来。他可以听见不远的地方传来粗哑的笑声和许多的脚步声，中间还夹杂着金属撞击的声音。这声音慢慢消失了，似乎正在往南边持续深入森林。
“What is it?” said Frodo.
“是谁？”佛罗多问。
A head appeared suddenly through the hole in the flet. Frodo sat up in alarm and saw that it was a grey-hooded Elf. He looked towards the hobbits.
了望台中间的洞口突然冒出一颗头。佛罗多警觉地坐起来，这才发现那是披着灰衣的精灵，它看着哈比人。
“Orcs!” said Frodo. “What are they doing?” But the Elf had gone.
“半兽人！”佛罗多说：“他们在干嘛？”但那精灵已经消失了。
“Yrch!” said the Elf in a hissing whisper, and cast on to the flet the rope-ladder rolled up.
“Yrch！”精灵低声说，边跳上了望台，将绳梯卷起来。
There were no more sounds. Even the leaves were silent, and the very falls seemed to be hushed. Frodo sat and shivered in his wraps. He was thankful that they had not been caught on the ground; but he felt that the trees offered little protection, except concealment. Orcs were as keen as hounds on a scent, it was said, but they could also climb. He drew out Sting: it flashed and glittered like a blue flame and then slowly faded again and grew dull. In spite of the fading of his sword the feeling of immediate danger did not leave Frodo, rather it grew stronger. He got up and crawled to the opening and peered down. He was almost certain that he could hear stealthy movements at the tree’s foot far below.
接下来没有任何更进一步的声响，连落叶的声音似乎都静止下来，悄悄地等待变化的发生。佛罗多浑身发抖地蜷缩在斗篷内，他很感激精灵们，否则现在可能会在地面上被这些怪物抓个正着；但他又觉得这些树除了可以隐藏他们的形迹之外，其实没办法提供什么保护。根据传说，半兽人的鼻子和猎犬一样灵，而且也会爬树。他拔出了宝剑刺针，看着它发出如同蓝焰一样的光芒，接着又缓缓黯淡下去。即使宝剑不再对他示警，但那种不安的感觉依旧没有离开佛罗多心头，甚至还变得更强烈。他爬到了望台的开口往下看，几乎可以确定自己听见了树下传来低微的脚步声。
Something was now climbing slowly, and its breath came like a soft hissing through closed teeth. Then coming up, close to the stem, Frodo saw two pale eyes. They stopped and gazed upward unwinking. Suddenly they turned away, and a shadowy figure slipped round the trunk of the tree and vanished.
底下有某种东西正在缓缓往上爬，对方的呼气声透过紧闭的牙关发出嘶嘶声。接着，佛罗多看见一双苍白的眼睛越来越靠近，它们停了下来，眨也不眨地看着上方；突然间，它们转了开来，一个影子溜下树，消失在黑暗中。
Not Elves; for the woodland folk were altogether noiseless in their movements. Then he heard faintly a sound like sniffing: and something seemed to be scrabbling on the bark of the tree-trunk. He stared down into the dark, holding his breath.
这不是精灵，因为这些森林的居民行动时几乎不会发出任何声音；然后他听到一种动物嗅闻时发出的声音，彷佛有什么东西在搔爬着树干的声响。他屏住呼吸，凝视黑暗中。
“I did not shoot, for I dared not arouse any cries: we cannot risk battle. A strong company of Orcs has passed. They crossed the Nimrodel-curse their foul feet in its clean water! — and went on down the old road beside the river. They seemed to pick up some scent, and they searched the ground for a while near the place where you halted. The three of us could not challenge a hundred, so we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices, leading them on into the wood.
“我没有用箭射他，因为我不敢弄出任何不必要的声响，我们可不敢和敌人正面作战。刚刚才有一大队半兽人通过，他们越过了宁若戴尔河——诅咒那些玷污河水的脏脚！接着沿河往下走。他们似乎闻到了什么味道，因为他们在你们所在的地方停了一下子，好像在搜寻些什么。我们三人无法对抗近百名的敌人，所以我们溜到他们前方，制造出一些诱敌的声音，吸引他们进入森林。”
Immediately afterwards Haldir came climbing swiftly up through the branches. “There was something in this tree that I have never seen before,” he said. “It was not an orc. It fled as soon as I touched the tree-stem. It seemed to be wary, and to have some skill in trees, or I might have thought that it was one of you hobbits.
哈尔达随即手脚俐落地爬上了望台：“刚刚我在树上看到了一种从来没见过的生物！”他说：“那不是半兽人，我一碰到树干他就马上逃跑了，他看起来很小心，似乎又对爬树很在行；否则我还真会以为他是你们哈比人的一员。”
Day came pale from the East. As the light grew it filtered through the yellow leaves of the mallorn, and it seemed to the hobbits that the early sun of a cool summer’s morning was shining. Pale-blue sky peeped among the moving branches. Looking through an opening on the south side of the flet Frodo saw all the valley of the Silverlode lying like a sea of fallow gold tossing gently in the breeze.
东方露出曙光，陽光照过梅隆树黄色的叶子，让哈比人们以为这是一个夏天清爽的清晨。蓝色的天光透过摇曳的枝丫展露笑颜，佛罗多从了望台的一边看去，发现整个银光河像是流经一片金黄色大地一般的壮观。
“Orophin has now gone in haste back to our dwellings to warn our people. None of the Orcs will ever return out of Lorien. And there will be many Elves hidden on the northern border before another night falls. But you must take the road south as soon as it is fully light.”
“欧洛芬现在已经赶回聚落警告我们的同胞，这些半兽人再也无法走出这座森林一步。在明晚之前，森林的北方边界就会有更多的精灵驻守，不过，在此之前，你们还是必须天一亮就往南走。”
The morning was still young and cold when the Company set out again, guided now by Haldir and his brother Rumil. “Farewell, sweet Nimrodel!” cried Legolas. Frodo looked back and caught a gleam of white foam among the grey tree-stems. “Farewell,” he said. It seemed to him that he would never hear again a running water so beautiful, for ever blending its innumerable notes in an endless changeful music.
当众人再度出发的时候，天色尚早，空气中也还有股冰冷的气息。这次，他们是在哈尔达和卢米尔的带领下前进。“再会了，甜美的宁若戴尔！”勒苟拉斯回头大喊。佛罗多回头一看，从掩映的枝丫中可以看见白色的水沫，“再会！”他不由自主地也跟着说。在他看来，这辈子可能再也无法看见这么美丽，能够将百变的音符融合进水流声中的溪水。
“There is one of my people yonder across the stream,” he said “though you may not see him.” He gave a call like the low whistle of a bird, and out of a thicket of young trees an Elf stepped, clad in grey, but with his hood thrown back; his hair glinted like gold in the morning sun. Haldir skilfully cast over the stream a coil of grey rope, and he caught it and bound the end about a tree near the bank.
“河对面有一名我的同胞，”他说：“虽然你们可能看不见他，”他发出如同鸟叫声的呼喊，从一株小树之中出现了一名精灵，他也是穿着灰色的衣服，但褪去的兜帽下金发闪闪发光。哈尔达露了一手将灰色绳子轻易丢到对岸的绝技，对方抓住这绳子，将它绑在靠近河岸的树上。
They went back to the path that still went on along the west side of the Silverlode, and for some way they followed it southward. There were the prints of orc-feet in the earth. But soon Haldir turned aside into the trees and halted on the bank of the river under their shadows.
他们回到原先的小径，继续沿着银光河西岸前进，有很长的一段道路，他们都是沿着河往南走。地面上还有许多半兽人的脚印。但很快地，哈尔达就转身走进树林中，在被陰影笼罩的河岸边停了下来。
“Celebrant is already a strong stream here, as you see,” said Haldir “and it runs both swift and deep, and is very cold. We do not set foot in it so far north, unless we must. But in these days of watchfulness we do not make bridges. This is how we cross! Follow me!” He made his end of the rope fast about another tree, and then ran lightly along it, over the river and back again, as if he were on a road.
“正如你们所见的一样，赛勒布兰特河从这里开始已经相当的湍急，”哈尔答说：“它流得很急，河水深而且非常冰冷，除非有必要，否则我们根本不敢在这么北边的地方涉足这条河。不过，在这种必须小心提防的日子中，我们又不敢架设桥梁。这就是我们过河的方法！跟我来！”他将绳子的另一头绑在另一株树上，轻巧地跳上绳子，如履平地跑到对面又跑回来。
He breathed with relief when he was safely across. “Live and learn! as my gaffer used to say. Though he was thinking of gardening, not of roosting like a bird, nor of trying to walk like a spider. Not even my uncle Andy ever did a trick like that! “
当他终于安全通过时，总算松了一口气：“我老爸常说，活到老学到老，不过，他多半是指种菜这方面，可没想到儿子将来会要飞檐走壁、学鸽子睡树上、学蜘蛛爬网子啊，连我的安迪舅舅都没玩过这种把戏！”
When this slender bridge had been made, the Company passed over, some cautiously and slowly, others more easily. Of the hobbits Pippin proved the best for he was sure-footed, and he walked over quickly, holding only with one hand; but he kept his eyes on the bank ahead and did not look down. Sam shuffled along, clutching hard, and looking down into the pale eddying water as if it was a chasm in the mountains.
当这座简便的绳桥做好以后，远征队的成员这才能够通过；有些人小心翼翼、缓缓地通过，其他人则是更为轻松地通过。在哈比人之中竟然是皮聘表现最好，他只用一只手扶着绳子，眼睛直盯着对岸，头也不回地走过去。山姆则是笨手笨脚，不停看着底下的河水，彷佛那是万丈深渊一般。
“No!” said Haldir. “We have two more ropes. We will fasten them above the other, one shoulder-high, and another half-high, and holding these the strangers should be able to cross with care.”
“当然不是！”哈尔达说，“我们还有两条绳索。一条绑在第二条上面，大概在肩膀左右的高度，另一条则绑在两者之前固定，这样这些外地来的客人就可以顺利通过了。”
When at length all the Company was gathered on the east bank of the Silverlode, the Elves untied the ropes and coiled two of them. Rumil, who had remained on the other side, drew back the last one, slung it on his shoulder, and with a wave of his hand went away, back to Nimrodel to keep watch.
过了不久，所有的队员终于全都集合在银光河的对岸。精灵们收好两条绳子，拉回第三条。留在河对岸的卢米尔将绳子缠好，背在肩膀上，一挥手，就头也不回地继续进行他的了望工作了。
“I can walk this path,” said Legolas; “but the others have not this skill. Must they swim?”
“我可以这么走，”勒苟拉斯说：“但其他人可不行，难道要他们游泳吗？”
“I do not doubt you,” said Haldir. “Yet this is our law. I am not the master of the law, and cannot set it aside. I have done much in letting you set foot over Celebrant.”
“我并不是怀疑你，”哈尔达说：“但这就是我们的律法，我不是制订法律的人，也不可能将规定视为无物，光是让你踏上赛勒布兰特平原，就已经让我承担了很多责任。”
“Now, friends,” said Haldir, “you have entered the Naith of Lorien or the Gore, as you would say, for it is the land that lies like a spear-head between the arms of Silverlode and Anduin the Great. We allow no strangers to spy out the secrets of the Naith. Few indeed are permitted even to set foot there.
“来吧，朋友们！”哈尔达说：“你们已经进入了罗瑞安的核心，或者你们可以称呼这里为三角洲，因为这是夹在银光河和安都因大河之间的箭头形土地。我们不准备让任何陌生人知道核心中的秘密，平常外人甚至根本不能进来。”
This was not at all to the liking of Gimli. “The agreement was made without my consent,” he said. “I will not walk blindfold, like a beggar or a prisoner. And I am no spy. My folk have never had dealings with any of the servants of the Enemy. Neither have we done harm to the Elves. I am no more likely to betray you than Legolas, or any other of my companions.”
金雳一点也不喜欢这样。“你们的讨论可没经过我的同意！”他说：“我不愿意像是乞丐或是囚犯一样蒙着眼睛走路，而且我也不可能是间谍，我的同胞从来没有和任何魔王的爪牙打过交道，他们也从来没有伤害过精灵。我和勒苟拉斯，以及所有的同伴一样，都不可能出卖你们。”
“As was agreed, I shall here blindfold the eyes of Gimli the Dwarf. The other may walk free for a while, until we come nearer to our dwellings, down in Egladil, in the Angle between the waters.”
“我要像之前所同意的一样，蒙住矮人金雳的眼睛，其他人暂时可以自由行动，直到我们靠近位在箭头部位的居所为止。”
Gimli was obstinate. He planted his feet firmly apart, and laid his hand upon the haft of his axe. “I will go forward free,” he said, “or I will go back and seek my own land, where I am known to be true of word, though I perish alone in the wilderness.”
金雳非常坚持己见，他顽固地站着不肯动，一只手拍着斧柄：“我不愿意在被人怀疑的状况下前进，”他说：“不然我宁愿回到我出发的地方，或许我会死在荒郊野外，但至少人们会认为我是说到做到的人。”
Gimli laughed suddenly. “A merry troop of fools we shall look! Will Haldir lead us all on a string, like many blind beggars with one dog? But I will be content, if only Legolas here shares my blindness.”
金雳突然笑了：“我们看起来会像是一群傻蛋出门旅行！哈尔达愿意担任领着一群乞丐的导盲犬吗？不过，如果勒苟拉斯和我一样蒙眼，我就愿意接受这条件。”
“You cannot go back,” said Haldir sternly. “Now you have come thus far, you must be brought before the Lord and the Lady. They shall judge you, to hold you or to give you leave, as they will. You cannot cross the rivers again, and behind you there are now secret sentinels that you cannot pass. You would be slain before you saw them.”
“你不能回头，”哈尔达严厉地说：“你已经走到这里，我们必须带你去谒见陛下夫妇，由他们来决定是要留下你们，还是让你们走。你不能够再度越过银光河，身后也已经布下了许多秘密的守卫，他们不会让你通过的，在你看见他们之前就会被杀死。”
Gimli drew his axe from his belt. Haldir and his companion bent their bows. “A plague on Dwarves and their stiff necks!” said Legolas.
金雳将斧头抽出，哈尔达和同伴弯弓搭箭僵持着。“该死的硬颈矮人！”勒苟拉斯说。
“Come!” said Aragorn. “If I am still to lead this Company, you must do as I bid. It is hard upon the Dwarf to be thus singled out. We will all be blindfold, even Legolas. That will be best, though it will make the journey slow and dull.”
“各位不要动气！”阿拉贡说：“如果各位还认同我这个领导者的话，你们就必须照我说的做。对于矮人来说，只把他挑出来太不公平，我们都愿意蒙住眼，连勒苟拉斯也不例外。虽然这样会让我们的旅程无聊而缓慢，但这样是最好的。”
“I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well,” said Gimli as they bound a cloth about his eyes.
“如果我弄伤脚或是摔倒，我会要求你们补偿的。”金雳被蒙住眼睛时还是不停嘴地抱怨。
“Now let us cry: “a plague on the stiff necks of Elves!”” said Aragorn. “But the Company shall all fare alike. Come, bind our eyes Haldir! “
“这回我们该说□该死的顽固精灵□吗？”阿拉贡说：“不要孩子气了，远征队所有的成员都应该同甘共苦。来吧，哈尔达，蒙起我们的眼睛！”
“Alas for the folly of these days!” said Legolas. “Here all are enemies of the one Enemy, and yet I must walk blind, while the sun is merry in the woodland under leaves of gold! “
“真可惜，这种愚行真是浪费了大好时光！”勒苟拉斯说：“这里所有的人都是魔王的敌人，但我却必须蒙着眼睛，无法欣赏外面的陽光和金叶的美景！”
“You will have no claim,” said Haldir. “I shall lead you well, and the paths are smooth and straight.”
“你不会拿到补偿的，”哈尔达说：“因为我不会让你们走错路，而那道路也都是宽敝平坦的。”
“I am an Elf and a kinsman here,” said Legolas, becoming angry in his turn.
“我是精灵，四周都是我的同胞！”这次换勒苟拉斯生气了。
“Folly it may seem,” said Haldir. “Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him. Yet so little faith and trust do we find now in the world beyond Lothlorien, unless maybe in Rivendell, that we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.
“或许这看来是愚行，”哈尔达表示：“的确，魔王可能正看着我们彼此猜疑的动作而哈哈大笑。可是，我们近日来对罗斯洛立安以外的人物实在不敢报信任，或许只有瑞文戴尔例外，而我们更不敢因为自己的大意危及全族的安危。我们现在居住在一片黑暗之海中的孤岛上，我们的手抚摸弓弦的时间，要远远多于抚摸琴弦的时间。”
“The rivers long defended us, but they are a sure guard no more for the Shadow has crept northward all about us. Some speak of departing, yet for that it already seems too late. The mountains to the west are growing evil; to the east the lands are waste, and full of Sauron’s creatures; and it is rumoured that we cannot now safely pass southward through Rohan, and the mouths of the Great River are watched by the Enemy. Even if we could come to the shores of the Sea, we should find no longer any shelter there. It is said that there are still havens of. the High Elves, but they are far north and west, beyond the land of the Halflings. But where that may be, though the Lord and Lady may know, I do not.”
“这些河流保护我们，但它们已经不再安全了，因为魔影已经往北移动，将我们团团包围。有些人开始认为应该迁徙，但这似乎已经太晚了。西方的山脉被邪气所侵，东方的大地一片荒芜，布满了索伦的爪牙，据说我们现在甚至无法安全通过洛汗；连安都因河口都在魔王的监视之下，即使我们可以来到海岸边，也找不到安居的地方。据说高等精灵依旧居住在世外桃源，但那些地方远在西北方，甚至是超过这些半身人居住的地方。而且，它们真正所在的地方只有陛下夫妇知道，我无缘得知。”
“You ought at least to guess, since you have seen us,” said Merry. “There are Elf-havens west of my land, the Shire where Hobbits live.”
“既然你都看到了我们，你或许应该猜猜看，”梅里说：“我所居住的夏尔西边，就有这种精灵的庇护所。”
“Happy folk are Hobbits to dwell near the shores of the sea!” said Haldir. “It is long indeed since any of my folk have looked on it, yet still we remember it in song. Tell me of these havens as we walk.”
“哈比人能够居住的这么靠近大海真是好！”哈尔达说：“我的同胞已经有好多年没有看过海，只在歌谣中纪念它们，等下你可以告诉我这些庇护所的故事。”
“Not even to see fair Lothlorien?” said Haldir. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
“即使你可以看到美丽的罗斯洛立安也不愿意吗？”哈尔达惊讶地说：“这世界的确充满了险恶，也有许多黑暗的地方；但这里依旧有很多美丽的地方，正因为许多地方夹杂着哀伤，也才更让这里变得更加壮丽。”
“Some there are among us who sing that the Shadow will draw back and peace shall come again. Yet I do not believe that the world about us will ever again be as it was of old, or the light of the Sun as it was aforetime. For the Elves, I fear, it will prove at best a truce, in which they may pass to the Sea unhindered and leave the Middle-earth for ever. Alas for Lothlorien that I love! It would be a poor life in a land where no mallorn grew. But if there are mallorn-trees beyond the Great Sea, none have reported it.”
“有些同胞吟唱着黑暗终将失败，和平将再临的歌声，但我不认为四周的世界会恢复跟古时候一样的状况，最多也只是到达一个互相信任的状态，精灵们可以不受阻碍地渡海，永远离开中土世界。啊！我钟爱的罗斯洛立安啊！如果没有梅隆树，那生活还有什么意义呢？不过，我到目前为止没听说，有人回来通报海外仙境没有梅隆树的坏消息。”
“I cannot,” said Merry. “I have never seen them. I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like. I don’t think I should have had the heart to leave it.”
“我没办法，”梅里说：“我从来没看过这些地方，我之前从来没有离开过自己家的土地。如果我早知道外界是什么样子，我可能就没胆子出来了。”
As they spoke thus, the Company filed slowly along the paths in the wood, led by Haldir, while the other Elf walked behind. They felt the ground beneath their feet smooth and soft, and after a while they walked more freely, without fear of hurt or fall. Being deprived of sight, Frodo found his hearing and other senses sharpened. He could smell the trees and the trodden grass. He could hear many different notes in the rustle of the leaves overhead, the river murmuring away on his right, and the thin clear voices of birds in the sky. He felt the sun upon his face and hands when they passed through an open glade.
当他们谈话时，一行人在哈尔达的带领下不停地沿着道路往前走，其他的精灵则走在后面。他们可以感觉到脚下的土地十分厚实松软，过了一会儿之后，他们放宽心胸，开始不担心摔倒或是受伤的问题。由于被剥夺了视力，佛罗多发现自己其他的感官相对强化了。他闻得到树木和新鲜草地的味道，他可以听见许多种不同音调的树叶摩擦声，河水在他的右方潺潺流着，天空中有着鸟儿清朗的婉转声，他可以感觉到走在草地上时，陽光照在身上和手上的感觉。
All that day the Company marched on, until they felt the cool evening come and heard the early night-wind whispering among many leaves. Then they rested and slept without fear upon the ground; for their guides would not permit them to unbind their eyes, and they could not climb. In the morning they went on again, walking without haste. At noon they halted, and Frodo was aware that they had passed out under the shining Sun. Suddenly he heard the sound of many voices all around him.
队伍整整走了一天，直到他们可以感觉到暮色渐临，凉爽的冷风也渐渐逼近。然后，他们安心地在地面上休息，因为哈尔达不准他们拿下蒙眼布，而他们又没办法爬树。到了第二天早上，他们继续毫不着急地漫步。时至中午，他们又停了下来，佛罗多可以感觉到他们现在站在陽光下，四周突然间出现许多声音。
As soon as he set foot upon the far bank of Silverlode a strange feeling had come upon him, and it deepened as he walked on into the Naith: it seemed to him that he had stepped over a bridge of time into a corner of the Elder Days, and was — now walking in a world that was no more. In Rivendell there was memory of ancient things; in Lorien the ancient things still lived on in the waking world. Evil had been seen and heard there, sorrow had been known; the Elves feared and distrusted the world outside: wolves were howling on the wood’s borders: but on the land of Lorien no shadow lay.
自从他一踏上银光河岸之后，就有一种诡异的感觉一直跟着他，等到进了森林核心之后，这种感觉更强烈。他觉得自己似乎踏上了时光之桥，走入了远古时代，现在正在一个过去的世界中游历。瑞文戴尔只有保留这些古老事物的回忆，但是在这里，这些古老事物都是活生生地运作着、呼吸着。他们听说过邪恶的势力，知道悲伤的滋味；精灵们害怕、怀疑外界，森林的边境有着野狼嗥叫的声音，但是，在罗瑞安的土地上没有任何的陰影。
He removed the bandage first from Gimli’s eyes. “Your pardon!” he said, bowing low. “Look on us now with friendly eyes! Look and be glad, for you are the first dwarf to behold the trees of the Naith of Lorien since Durin’s Day! “
他首先移下金雳眼上的蒙眼布，“向您致歉！”他深深的一鞠躬。“请用友善的眼光看着我们！您应该感到高兴，因为您是自从都灵的时代以来，第一位得以目睹罗斯洛立安森林核心美景的矮人！”
“Also,” said Haldir, “they bring me a message from the Lord and Lady of the Galadhrim. You are all to walk free, even the dwarf Gimli. It seems that the Lady knows who and what is each member of your Company. New messages have come from Rivendell perhaps.”
“除此之外，”哈尔达表示：“他们也带来了我族陛下夫妇的旨意。诸位可以自由行动，连矮人金雳也不例外。看来女皇大人知道你们每一位的身份，或许是瑞文戴尔的信差，已经把消息送到她那边了吧！”
A marching host of Elves had come up silently: they were hastening toward the northern borders to guard against any attack from Moria; and they brought news, some of which Haldir reported. The marauding orcs had been waylaid and almost all destroyed; the remnant had fled westward towards the mountains, and were being pursued. A strange creature also had been seen, running with bent back and with hands near the ground, like a beast and yet not of beast-shape. It had eluded capture, and they had not shot it, not knowing whether it was good or ill, and it had vanished down the Silverlode southward.
一整队的精灵悄然无声地出现，他们急着赶向森林的北边边界，抵御摩瑞亚可能的攻击。他们也带来很多消息，哈尔达跟他们分享了其中一些。之前大胆入侵的半兽人部队，几乎全部被歼灭，剩余的逃向西方，正被一路追杀。他们也目睹一只诡异的生物弯着腰，双手几乎垂到地上的四处奔跑；他看起来像是野兽，但却不是野兽。他躲过了层层的追捕，由于没人知道他是什么生物，也没人敢贸然射杀他，他就这么消失在银光河南边的地方。
When his eyes were in turn uncovered, Frodo looked up and caught his breath. They were standing in an open space. To the left stood a great mound, covered with a sward of grass as green as Spring-time in the Elder Days. Upon it, as a double crown, grew two circles of trees: the outer had bark of snowy white, and were leafless but beautiful in their shapely nakedness; the inner were mallorn-trees of great height, still arrayed in pale gold. High amid the branches of a towering tree that stood in the centre of all there gleamed a white flet. At the feet of the trees, and all about the green hillsides the grass was studded with small golden flowers shaped like stars. Among them, nodding on slender stalks, were other flowers, white and palest green: they glimmered as a mist amid the rich hue of the grass. Over all the sky was blue, and the sun of afternoon glowed upon the hill and cast long green shadows beneath the trees.
当佛罗多的蒙眼布也被拿掉之后，眼前的美景让他屏息以对。他们站在一个开阔的地方，左边是个大土丘，上面有各种各样远古时代欣欣向荣的茂密青草，在其上，如同皇冠一样的是两圈树木。外圈的树木拥有雪白的树皮，连一片树叶都没有，但却给人一种优雅的感觉；内圈则是非常高的梅隆树，依旧笼罩在黄金色之中。在这些参天的古木之上，有一座白色的了望台。在山丘上的众多青草中，有许多都长着黄色星状的花朵，在它们瘦削的茎叶之间，有许多其他的白色、绿色的花朵，在这一片翠绿之中显得格外突出。天空则是蔚蓝的颜色，什后的太陽照在山丘上，让这些树木拖出长长的陰影。
“Behold! You are come to Cerin Amroth,” said Haldir. “For this is the heart of the ancient realm as it was long ago, and here is the mound of Amroth, where in happier days his high house was built. Here ever bloom the winter flowers in the unfading grass: the yellow elanor, and the pale niphredil. Here we will stay awhile, and come to the city of the Galadhrim at dusk.”
“注意！你们来到了瑟林—安罗斯，”哈尔达说：“这就是远古王国的心，这山丘是安罗斯之丘，在和平的年代中也是他建造宫殿的地方。在这里，永远翠绿的青草上开着永不凋谢的花朵；黄色的伊拉诺，白色的宁芙瑞迪尔会在这边停留一段时间，到晚上再进入树民的城市。”
The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder. It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for which his language had no name. All that he saw was shapely, but the shapes seemed at once clear cut, as if they had been first conceived and drawn at the uncovering of his eyes, and ancient as if they had endured for ever. He saw no colour but those he knew, gold and white and blue and green, but they were fresh and poignant, as if he had at that moment first perceived them and made for them names new and wonderful. In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring. No blemish or sickness or deformity could be seen in anything that grew upon the earth. On the land of Lorien there was no stain.
其他人在这香气四溢的草地上坐下来，只有佛罗多依旧震惊于眼前的美景，不知如何是好，他觉得自己似乎是来到了一扇看着早已失落世界的窗口。陽光照在他无法用言语描述的环境中。他看到的一切都美得无与伦比，但那美丽似乎是永远不会变更的，从他一睁眼的时候就已经决定，不会再有任何的变化。他眼中所见的颜色没有过去未见过的颜色，但在这里似乎变得更为饱满、丰润，彷佛就是因为它们出现在这里而有了新的名字和意义。没有任何的晦暗、变形或疾病可以沾染这块土地上的生物，在罗瑞安的大地上没有任何的污迹。
He turned and saw that Sam was now standing beside him, looking round with a puzzled expression, and rubbing his eyes as if he was not sure that he was awake. “It’s sunlight and bright day, right enough,” he said. “I thought that Elves were all for moon and stars: but this is more elvish than anything I ever heard tell of. I feel as if I was inside a song. if you take my meaning.”
他转过身，看见山姆站在他身边，脸上挂着疑惑的表情，不停地揉着眼睛，彷佛想要确定这是否是真的。“这的确是在陽光下，”他说：“我本来以为精灵都是在月亮和星光下的，但这比我所曾听过的都还要更为精灵化。我觉得自己彷佛身处在歌谣中，如果您能够了解我的意思。”
They followed him as he stepped lightly up the grass-clad slopes. Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool wind as fanned his face, Frodo felt that he was in a timeless land that did not fade or change or fall into forgetfulness. When he had gone and passed again into the outer world, still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlorien.
他们跟着他一起踏上绿草遍布的小丘。佛罗多觉得自己的一呼一吸和所有的行动，都被包围在一种同样不受时间影响的空气中，让人永远不能忘怀这如梦一般的处境；即使后来当他离开了这里，他还是会常在梦中回到这个地方，观看着这个长满了伊拉诺和宁芙瑞迪尔的罗斯洛立安。
They entered the circle of white trees. As they did so the South Wind blew upon Cerin Amroth and sighed among the branches. Frodo stood still, hearing far off_ great seas upon beaches that had long ago been washed away, and sea-birds crying whose race had perished from the earth.
他们踏入了白树的内围，此时南风吹进白树间，发出悠远的叹息声，佛罗多感觉自己听到了远方海洋的浪潮声，以及早已绝种的海鸟鸣叫声。
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree’s skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.
哈尔达现在已经爬上了了望台，佛罗多准备紧跟其后，当他刚把手放到梯旁树上时，突然间无比清晰地感受到树木生命力，和它细致的纹理。他觉得自己很高兴能够摸到这株森林中的树，这和伐木工人和木匠的感受不一样，他是为了这株活生生的树而高兴。
Haldir looked at them, and he seemed indeed to take the meaning of both thought and word. He smiled. “You feel the power of the Lady of the Galadhrim,” he said. “Would it please you to climb with me up Cerin Amroth? “
哈尔达看着他们，似乎的确可以理解他们所想、所见。他笑着说：“你们感觉到的是树民之女皇的力量，”他说：“诸位愿意和我一起爬上瑟林—安罗斯吗？”
“There lies the fastness of Southern Mirkwood,” said Haldir. “It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling. We fear that now it is inhabited again, and with power sevenfold. A black cloud lies often over it of late. In this high place you may see the two powers that are opposed one to another; and ever they strive now in thought, but whereas the light perceives the very heart of the darkness, its own secret has not been discovered. Not yet.” He turned and climbed swiftly down, and they followed him.
“那就是幽暗密林南方的边境，”哈尔达说：“它是个长满了黑暗枞树的地方，那里一株接一株枞树紧接着生长，也一起腐烂、枯萎。在其中的一块岩石高地上是加尔哥多，也就是魔王许多以前蛰伏的地方。我们担心邪恶势力可能再度滋长，而且其力量不只增加了七八倍。进来它的上空经常飘浮着黑色的云朵。在这里，你们可以看见光明与黑暗彼此争斗的过程，但即使光明感应到了黑暗的内心，它自己真正的秘密尚未被揭露，时候还没到。”他转身，快速地爬下绳梯，其他人紧跟在后。
Frodo looked and saw, still at some distance, a hill of many mighty trees, or a city of green towers: which it was he could not tell. Out of it, it seemed to him that the power and light came that held all the land in sway. He longed suddenly to fly like a bird to rest in the green city. Then he looked eastward and saw all the land of Lorien running down to the pale gleam of Anduin, the Great River. He lifted his eyes across the river and all the light went out, and he was back again in the world he knew. Beyond the river the land appeared flat and empty, formless and vague, until far away it rose again like a wall, dark and drear. The sun that lay on Lothlorien had no power to enlighten the shadow of that distant height.
佛罗多看见一段距离之外，有一座长有许多高大树木的山丘，或者那是一个拥有绿色高塔的城市？他看不出来，他只能够感受到似乎一切守护此地的光明和力量，都是从其中溢流而出。他突然间想要长出翅膀，赶快飞到那个绿色的城市中休息。然后，他看向东方，看见罗瑞安的领土一路延伸到安都因大河的河光之下。他将目光移过大河，却发现所有的光芒都消失了。在河的另外一边，大地看来十分的平坦、空旷，没有任何的特征；但更远处，它却像是一个深井一样升起，流露出黝黑的外表，照耀在罗斯洛立安上的陽光无力照亮该处。
As he stepped out at last upon the lofty platform, Haldir took his hand and turned him toward the South. “Look this way first!” he said.
最后，他终于来到这高挂天空的了望台。哈尔达拉住他的手，将他引向南边：“先看看这个方向！”
“Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth,” he said, “and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread, you and I. Come with me!” And taking Frodo’s hand in his, he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as living man.
“这是世界上精灵国度的正中心，”他说：“我的心永远停驻在此地。除非，你我的黑暗的旅程之后还有光明，否则恐怕是没有机会再看到此景。跟我来吧！”他牵着佛罗多的手，离开瑟林—安罗斯的山丘，从此再也没有活着回来过。
At the hill’s foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord tall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongue to one whom Frodo could not see. Arwen vanimelda, namarie! he said, and then he drew a breath, and returning out of his thought he looked at Frodo and smiled.
在土丘底下，佛罗多看见阿拉贡楞楞地站在那里，如同树木一样沉默；但他手中拿着一朵小小的金色伊拉诺，眼中闪烁着光芒，他似乎陷入了美丽的回忆中。佛罗多看着他脸上露出迷蒙的表情，那神行客才有的浪迹天涯之沧桑，都在这美丽的环境中被抚平；他似乎穿着白袍，恢复成一名高大英挺的王者，他似乎对一名佛罗多看不见的人说着精灵语。Arwen vanimelda， namarie！呢喃着，然后深吸一口气，突然间回到现实世界，看着眼前的佛罗多，露出微笑。
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