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《雨雪时候的星辰》是冰心的早期抒情散文。文章赞美自然,想象精细,文笔清新,充满诗情画意。在《雨雪时候的星辰》中,作者写自己和病友在疗养院里,每晚都要凝视着天上熟识的星辰。然而连夜的雨雪,使她们一点星光都看不见了。向着漆黑的夜空寻找,她们终于看到了山径上和松林中的点点灯火,就暂且把这些零乱的灯光当做天上的星星凝望,“于是雨雪寂寞之夜,也有了慰安了!”
Stars on a Snowy Night
The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be the stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.
It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.
More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.
Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night!