致Tian Xin和He Zi（一幅文艺复兴时候的名作，无端和《红楼梦》扯上了关系，坛主见谅）

Last Hermit

汉英

One of the most familiar of all is a landscape by Bruegel, some times known as The Return of the Hunters, more usually as The Hunters in the Snow. There they go again, those weary men with their gaunt dogs, on the walls of hospital waiting rooms and student lodgings, on your mantlepiece Christmas after Christmas, trudging away from us off the winter hills behind our backs, down into the snowbound valley beneath. Their heads are lowered, their spoils are meager. Three hunters with thirteen dogs to feed and nothing but a single fox to show for their labors. There's no great rejoicing at their return; the women making a fire outside the inn with the sign that's hanging half off its hook don't give them a glance, any more than the plowman looks up to see Icarus vanishing headlong into the sea in that ealier painting of Bruegel's that Auden made almost as famous as the Hunters. What takes the eye is the landscape that opens away at the foot of the hill we are on: the village turned in upon itself by the cold, the tiny figures on the unfamiliar ice, the sky leaden above the white floodplain around the frozen river, a planing magpie black against the whiteness, leading the eye on to the broken teeth of the mountains on the other side of the valley, and the distant town at the end of it beside the winter sea.

turned in upone itself by the cold
你们都将其理解为孤独无依的意思。

但我的理解是：严冬将整条村子冻得动弹不得，有苦自知。因为turn in upon oneself正是指absorbed in one's own thoughs and feelings.阿飞的译法似乎较为可取，只是觉得好像还不太雅和含蓄。

说到影只形单，村外头有好多人在活动，仿佛（原画117X162厘米，我只见到十六开大小的，不在清楚）在劳作，在跳舞。还有马车在走。当然，主角还是那三个猎人。

照美术家们的解释，该画：是勃鲁盖尔风景画的重要作品，可以看到作者“对圆团形状的极好运用，画面中由的至远以平面剪影方式设置有序的大树和灌木丛，一团团一簇簇，成为画面形式内容的主要构成，其巧拙相宜，繁简有致，既单纯概括而又丰富细腻的画面，为我们展示了一幅尼德兰乡村深远美丽的冬日风景，同时又为我们留下了写实艺术富于抽象形式意韵的极好典范。”

可以在此找到此画：http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/hunters.jpg

谢讨论！

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Meunique

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turn in on oneself/itself: 隐居(不与他人接触)；做隐士；(指国家)变为孤立主义者 (牛津英汉双解) - he zi 19991220030515
- 天尽处，隐约孤村，将残冬隔绝。(for poetic effect, may not be accurate) - tian xin 19991220032942
  - 谢甜心姐姐。改译为：严寒将村子裹得严严实实，绝迹于尘。 - Last Hermit 19991220074456
    - 也许应稍留意 - he zi 19991220104001
      - 谢提醒！ - Last Hermit 19991221084207
    - Excellent! Thanks! - tian xin 19991220152535
- 同意鹤子理解。turn in upon oneself指不与他人来往，与外界隔绝（参阅陆氏《英汉大词典》） - tian xin 19991220033517
- 惭愧，惭愧！到了自已家门，竟还'F然不知！ - Last Hermit 19991220060229
接着陪您练 - 阿飞 19991221072416
- 冻得发懒的屯子/屯子被冻得只想自个呆着/冻得不爱搭理人的屯子/屯子连心情都冻没了 - 阿飞 19991221073054
- 煞费苦心哪！只可惜，这幅美丽的图画背后，却是一片杀戮！ - Last Hermit 19991221100610
  - 严寒中显得漠然的村庄。 - 阿飞 19991225121754
    - He proposes the best who proposes the last:-) - 地痞 19991226205328
      - :-)。地痞动刀子，俺是耍剑的 - 阿飞 19991226232543

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