从翻译实例看英汉对比翻译、英语原文赏析So far as my small experience goes，the most wonderfularrival in the world is at Venice ； but you should time itafter dark.Venice is so unlike anything else on earth thatthe first impact of it must be a marvelous experienceatany hour ；but after dark it is magical.You may have been reading books about Venice all your life ；you may have seen innumerable pictures of the glories of the city ；but no book and no picture can prepare you for the enchantment of thisarrival.To step out of the glitter and bustleof thestation — rather weary and jaded with the long journey fromMila n — straight on to the landing stage aga instwhich thewater of the Grand Canal is lapping ， to step on boardagondola and to go gliding down the dark ，broad ，silent highway，with dim-lit ，ghostly palaces on either handnot till memory forsakes you will you forgetthisexperience.The strange silence ，broken only by the measureddip of the oar and the soft plashing of the wateragainstyour cleaving prow ，and the occasional hoarsecries of the gondoliers as you pass another of these black ，funeralbarges ；the few and feeble lamps ，giving you momentaryglimpses of balconies and finely carven arches ；the suddenintensification of the silence and the darkness asyouabruptly leave the Grand Canal and slip along one ofthenarrower waterways ，always with tall houses on both sidesof you， and above you a clear sky of stars ， stars reflectedtremblingly on the black waters —thousa nds of touristsmust have tried to describe all this ， but the magic and the mystery and the beauty of it defy humanspeech.And the spellis heightened by the consciousness that this isVenicat the back of your mind is all that you have readaboutthe strange history of this city ，once the richest and mostbrilliant and most powerful in Europe ，later fallen uponevil days of decay and subjection to a foreinpower，now beginning to lift her head again as one of thegreatseaports ofItaly.二、译文（英译汉）在有限的阅历当中，我所到过的世界上最美丽的地方要数威尼斯了，但是，你应该选择在夜幕降临以后再去参观。
