Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe. If it were worth the while to settle in those parts near to the Pleiades or the Hyades, to Aldebaran or Altair, then I was really there, or at an equal remoteness from the life which I had left behind, dwindled and twinkling with as fine a ray to my nearest neighbor, and to be seen only in moonless nights by him. Such was that part of creation where I had squatted; --
"There was a shepherd that did live,
And held his thoughts as high
As were the mounts whereon his flocks
Did hourly feed him by."
What should we think of the shepherd's life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?
(徐迟译)时间和地点都已变换,我生活在更靠近了宇宙中的这些部分,更挨紧了历史中最吸引我的那些时代。我生活的地方遥远得跟天文家每晚观察的太空一样,我们惯于幻想,在天体的更远更僻的一角,有着更稀罕、更愉快的地方,在仙后星座的椅子形状的后面,远远地离了嚣闹和骚扰。我发现我的房屋位置正是这样一个遁隐之处,它是终古常新的没有受到污染的宇宙一部分。如果说,居住在这些部分,更靠近昴星团或毕星团,牵牛星座或天鹰星座更加值得的话,那末,我真正是住在那些地方的,至少是,就跟那些星座一样远离我抛在后面的人世,那些闪闪的小光,那些柔美的光线,传给我最近的邻居,只有在没有月亮的夜间才能够看得到。我所居住的便是创造物中那部分;——
曾有个牧羊人活在世上,
他的思想有高山那样
崇高,在那里他的羊群
每小时都给与他营养。
如果牧羊人的羊群老是走到比他的思想还要高的牧场上,我们会觉得他的生活是怎样的呢?
1) I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.句中的“which”从句是否也修饰“to those parts of the universe”?