珊瑚丛

我像一条小鱼潜翔在波斯湾的珊瑚丛。

I dived as a fish among the corals of Persia Gulf .

一天晚上，一条小鱼正在珊瑚丛下面睡觉，上帝出现在他梦中。

One night a baby fish was sleeping under some coral when God appeared to him in a dream .

于是雪白的花瓣缩人它们的朱红匣中去了，花朵在我眼前消失了，珊瑚丛随即转变为一大团的石圆丘。

The white petals retracted into their red sheaths , the flowers vanished before my eyes , and the bush changed into a chunk of stony nipples .

燃后这队送葬的队伍沿着原路，在森林的拱形建筑物下，一堆一堆的丛林中间，走过了很长的珊瑚丛，总是往上走，向着诺第留斯号回来。

Then the funeral party went back up the path to the Nautilus , returning beneath the arches of the forest , through the thickets , along the coral bushes , going steadily higher .

但在这里的，不是孤立隔开的珊瑚丛，不是低树林的丛木，而是，广大的森林，巨大的矿物草木，粗大的石树，由那些海葛藤，漂亮好看的羽毛草花圈坏结合起来，受到各样色彩和反光的点缀，非常好看。

But here it was no longer some isolated bush or a modest grove of low timber . It was an immense forest , huge mineral vegetation , enormous petrified trees linked by garlands of elegant hydras from the genus Plumularia , those tropical creepers of the sea , all decked out in shades and gleams .