In some years, April bursts upon our Virginia hills in one prodigious leap-and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plums.

• 有些年份，春天一个健步就跃上我们家乡弗吉尼亚的群山－一瞬间，整个舞台活跃起来：郁金香齐声欢唱，连翘花翩翩起舞，怒放的洋李婉转吟哦。