From A Wilderness Experience
Sally Carrighar
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he tent was a short way back from the shore with a path leading down to a little dock. I walked to the end of it. Ripples were gently rearranging the pebbles along the beach but the lake was smooth. Its wide and beautiful surface, delicate silver-blue, streamed with a mist that disappeared as I watched, for the light of the early sun, splintering on the tops of the mainland evergreen trees, was starting to fall on the mist and dissolve it. Curiously the lake’s level surface seemed to be moving in alternate glassy streams, right and left, an effect that sometimes occurs on quiet water, I don’t know why.
The bay in front of the dock was framed by the shores of the mainland, which curved together from both sides to meet in a point. At that vertex another island, rocky and tall, rose from the water. It looked uninhabited; and although a few cabins were scattered along the mainland, between and behind them was unbroken forest. It was my first sight of a natural wilderness. Behind our tent, too, and several other tents here and a house in their midst, was the forest. Over everything, as pervasive as sunshine, was the fragrance of balsam firs. It was aromatic and sweet and I closed my eyes and breathed deeply to draw in more of it.
Voices from some of the tents meant that others were stirring. At the house wood smoke rose from the chimney, another redolent fragrance mingling soon with the smell of bacon frying. It is a combination familiar to everyone who has known woodland mornings. There would be talk at breakfast, the meeting with strangers—a loss. The sunrise across the wild northern lake seemed a kind of holiness that human chatter was bound to destroy a little. The water, so still and lucent, beyond it the dark mystery of the forest, and the firs’ fragrance: for this sacred experience, enjoyed alone, I would get up at dawn every day during the summer.
Notes and comments:
way in-вход
way out-изход; прен. изход от положението
to be in the way-преча, стоя на пътя, представлявам препятствие (syn. to get in the way of)
to go the way of all flesh-умирам, отивам си от този свят
to blaze the way-проправям си път през гората, прен. новатор съм
His name goes a long way. Той има голямо влияние./Думата му тежи./Вслушват се в мнението му.
the other way round-обратно (syn. vice versa)
to look the other way-правя се, че нищо не виждам; извръщам поглед
to my way of thinking-по моему, според мен (syn. to my mind, in my opinion)
one way or another-така или иначе
Preparations are under way. Извършват се приготовления.
way above-много над
way ahead-далеко напред
way back in the 1920s-много отдавна през 20те години на нашия век
by way of-като за, вместо
by way of a joke-като на шега
ripple-syn. billow, breaker, crest, heave, ridge, roller, surf, swell
The breeze rippled the corn-fields.
The tide rippled the sand.
alternate-adj. редуващ се през едно, периодичен
alternate lines of red and blue-редуващи се червени и сини линии
on alternate Mondays-syn. every other Monday; през понеделник
unbroken-непрекъснат, продължителен
pervasive-syn. penetrating, permeating, insidious
fragrance-syn. aroma, bouquet, odour, perfume, scent, smell, redolence
redolent-syn. aromatic, fragrant, scented
to mingle-syn. to mix, to blend, to merge; смесвам
to mingle in the crowd-загубвам се в (смесвам се с) тълпата
two rivers that join and mingle their waters
loss of opportunity-пропуснат случай
dead loss-чиста загуба
to suffer losses-претърпявам загуби
to be at a loss-в недоумение съм, в затруднение съм
to be at a loss for words-syn. words fail me to describe; не намирам думи, нямам думи
Use the following set phrases in sentences of your own:
luscious peaches, erroneous statement, pernicious habits, aqueous solution, bounteous harvest, herbaceous border, miscellaneous items, injurious influence, glorious weather, simultaneous actions, hideous crime, righteous anger, fastidious girl, judicious advice, prodigious sum of money, virtuous resolve
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