华盛顿欧文自述第三段

何绮珊，梁美琪，林惠燕，梁雪霞，彭燕婷，莫海浪

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Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds, only served to make it more decided. I visited various parts of my own country; and had I been merely a lover of fine scenery, I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere for its gratification; for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes ; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine: －no , never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.

深思熟虑之余，纵使他们将此番模糊的向往更趋合理，却只愈加弥坚。余已领略国之风骚，若只为那秀丽的风景驻足，则余本不应奢求远方之喜悦。只因国之壮丽已无它可与之媲美。

其大湖，如粼光之海面；其山峰，如泛一缕青烟；其谷地，孕良田美池桑竹之属；其瀑布，于孤寂处飞流直下；其平原，风吹草低见牛羊；其河流，如滚滚长江东逝水；其森林，晓天江树绿迢迢；其碧空，映日祥云添荣光。

望苍茫天地，唯吾国山河之壮丽无与伦比也。