“It’s a holiday tomorrow. Where should we go?”?he asked. He lay on the bed, but knew his character had already appeared beside the nonexistent fireplace.

“明天放假，我們出去玩兒好嗎？”羅輯仰躺在床上問，他知道她已經出現在那個并不存在的壁爐旁了。

“You’re not taking her?”?she asked in all innocence, pointing toward the still-open door.

“不帶她去嗎？”她指指仍然半開著的門，一臉天真地問。

“No. Just the two of us. Where would you like to go?”

“不，就我們倆。你想去哪兒？”

She drank in the dancing flames in the fireplace and said, “It’s not important where we go. I think it’s a wonderful feeling just being on a journey.”

她入神地看著壁爐中跳動的火苗，說：“去哪兒不重要，我覺得人在旅途中，感覺就很美呢。”

“Then we’ll set out?and see where we end up?”

“那我們就隨便走，走到哪兒算哪兒？”

“Excellent.”

“那樣挺好的?！?/p>

The next morning, he drove his Accord off campus and headed west, a direction he chose purely because it avoided the headaches of having to traverse?the entire city. He felt for the first time the wonderful freedom of traveling with no destination in mind. As the buildings outside slowly thinned out?and fields began to appear, he cracked his window to let the cold winter air in. He sensed her long hair catching the wind, and strands of it blew over to tickle?his right temple.

第二天一早，羅輯開著他那輛雅閣轎車出了校園，向西駛去，之所以選擇這個方向，僅僅是因為省去了穿過整個城市的麻煩，他第一次體會到沒有目的地的出行所帶來的那種美妙的自由。當車外的樓房漸漸稀少，田野開始出現時，羅輯把車窗打開了一條縫，讓冬天的冷風吹進些許，他感到她的長發(fā)被風吹起，一縷縷撩到他的右面頰上，怪癢癢的。

“Look, mountains.”?she pointed off in the distance.

“看，那邊有山――”她指著遠方說。

“Visibility is good today. Those are the Taihang Mountains. They run parallel to this road, and then bend around to form a block in the west, where the road goes into them. I’d say that right now we’re --”

“今天能見度好，那是太行山，那山的走向會一直與這條公路平行，然后向這面彎過來堵在西方，那時路就會進山，我想我們現在是在……”

“No, no. Don’t say where we are! Once we know where we are, then the world becomes as narrow as a map. When we don’t know, the world feels unlimited.”

“不不，別說在哪兒！一知道在哪兒，世界就變得像一張地圖那么小了；不知道在哪兒，感覺世界才廣闊呢?！?/p>

“Okay. Then let’s do our best to get lost.”?he turned onto an emptier road, and before they had gone very far, turned a second time. On both sides of them were now endless fields where the snow had not yet melted completely, the snowy patches and snow-free ground roughly?equal. No green anywhere, although the sunlight was brilliant.

“那好，咱們就努力迷路吧?！绷_輯說著，拐上了一條車更少的支路，沒開多遠又隨意拐上另一條路。這時，路兩邊只有連綿不斷的廣闊田野，覆蓋著大片的殘雪，有雪和無雪的地方面積差不多，看不到一點綠色，但陽光燦爛。

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innocence： n.清白;無罪;天真;純真;無辜;單純

drink in： 陶醉；容易地吸取;如饑似渴地吸收;飽覽，欣賞（風景等）

set out： 動身;出發(fā);啟程

end up： （通常指意外地）最終到達;最終;結果;到頭來

end up with sth.

end up doing sth.

traverse：

vt.橫過;橫越;穿過;橫渡

n.(在陡坡上的)側向移動，橫過，橫越;可橫越的地方

v.穿過;橫過;橫越;橫渡

adj.橫斷的

destination： n.目的地;終點

thin out： （使）變稀疏

crack：

【文中意思，把車窗搖下來，打開一條縫】

n.裂紋;裂縫;縫隙;窄縫;(突然的)爆裂聲，噼啪聲;（可聽到響聲的）重擊，猛擊;嘗試

v.斷裂;破裂;砸開;破開;砸碎;重擊;猛擊;（使）發(fā)出爆裂聲，噼啪作響;

adj.訓練有素的;技藝高超的;優(yōu)秀的;一流的

sense：

n.感覺;感覺官能(即視、聽、嗅、味、觸五覺);(對重大事情的)意識;理解力;判斷力;見識;健全的心智;意義

v.感覺到;意識到;覺察出;檢測出

strand：

vt.擱淺;使滯留

n.(線、繩、金屬線、毛發(fā)等的)股;縷

tickle：

v.撓癢癢;胳肢;逗樂;呵癢;(使)發(fā)癢

n.癢;胳肢;呵癢;癢感

temple： n.寺廟;(非基督教的)廟宇，寺院，神殿，圣堂;太陽穴;鬢角;顳颥;顳部

visibility： n.可見度;能見度;能見距離;可見性;明顯性

empty：

adj.空的;空洞的;說話不算數的;無誠意的;空虛的;無意義的;無目的的;沒有

v.倒空;騰空;掏空;變空;把…移出，把…騰出(置于別處);（把…）撤出，撤離;流入

n.空車;空的東西

patch：

n.色斑;斑點;(與周圍不同的)小塊，小片;補丁;補塊;小塊土地

vt.打補丁;縫補;修補

snow-free： 無雪的【這里的free表示=沒有=】

roughly： adv.粗略地;大致;大約;差不多;粗暴地;粗魯地;粗糙地;凹凸不平地

brilliant：

adj.明亮的;巧妙的;聰穎的;技藝高的;很好的

n.寶石;鉆石