选自霍桑的《古屋杂忆》(Hawthorne:The Old Manse) 里的一段,原书是夏济安翻译的《美国散文选》:
It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a row of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.