The poisonous flies and gnats swarmed around by thousands; in vain one waved myrtle-branches about like mad; the audacious insect population did not cease to sting;

有毒的苍蝇和蚊蚋成千成万地向车里飞来4O(fTCwjycyez+J2Qs8)。他们用桃金娘的枝条在空中乱打了一阵，但苍蝇照旧叮着他们F7luuE^w+X。

nor was there a single person in the well-crammed carriage whose face was not swollen and sore from their ravenous bites.

车里没有一个人的脸不发肿，不被咬得流血HMOh52BDe)RN@h。

The poor horses, tortured almost to death, suffered most from this truly Egyptian plague;

那几匹可怜的马儿，看起来简直像死尸zJWpPiv]MZvycpcL。

the flies alighted upon them in large disgusting swarms;

苍蝇蜂拥似的叮着它们Yg5#hFmvv-.dbPNVr_q。

and if the coachman got down and scraped them off, hardly a minute elapsed before they were there again.

只有当车夫走下来，把这些虫子赶掉以后，情况才好转了几分钟nid4OLf+X!~B;%kf。

The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole creation;

现在太阳落下来了HLVBL)NgCoIvP。一阵短促的、可是冰凉的寒气透过了整个的大自然S(mWC*_vLUb。

it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day—

这就像在一个温暖的夏日里，从墓穴里吹出来的一阵可怕的狂风——

but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures,

不过四周的山丘和云块这时染上了一层最美丽的绿色，既清爽，又光洁，我们在一些老照片上看到有类似的颜色，

and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatural.

如果我们在南方没有看到类似的颜色，我们立刻宣称这是假的R|o*m^z,n2。

It was a glorious prospect; but the stomach was empty, the body tired;

这真是美，旅行的人也都体会到这一点，不过大家的肚皮都空了，身体也倦了，

all that the heart cared and longed for was good night-quarters; yet how would they be?

每一颗心只希望找一个宿夜的地方[iqf~V^)uTc8b1.HLTS。但是怎样才能达到这个目的呢？

For these one looked much more anxiously than for the charms of nature, which every where were so profusely displayed.

大家的心思都花在这个问题上，而没有去看这美丽的大自然rP_f]YP)2QX_(59P。