2019考研MTI双语：《牛虻》(《The Gadfly》)节选一

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    They went out into the still, shadowy cloister garden. The seminary
occupied the buildings of an old Dominican monastery, and two hundred years ago
the square courtyard had been stiff and trim, and the rosemary and lavender had
grown in close-cut bushes between the straight box edgings. Now the white-robed
monks who had tended them were laid away and forgotten; but the scented herbs
flowered still in the gracious mid-summer evening, though no man gathered their
blossoms for simples any more. Tufts of wild parsley and columbine filled the
cracks between the flagged footways, and the well in the middle of the courtyard
was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop. The roses had run wild, and their
straggling suckers trailed across the paths; in the box borders flared great red
poppies; tall foxgloves drooped above the tangled grasses; and the old vine,
untrained and barren of fruit, swayed from the branches of the neglected
medlar-tree, shaking a leafy head with slow and sad persistence.
    In one corner stood a huge summer-flowering magnolia, a tower of dark
foliage, splashed here and there with milk-white blossoms. A rough wooden bench
had been placed against the trunk; and on this Montanelli sat down. Arthur was
studying philosophy at the university; and, coming to a difficulty with a book,
had applied to "the Padre" for an explanation of the point. Montanelli was a
universal encyclopaedia to him, though he had never been a pupil of the
seminary.
    他们走进修道院的花园，这里很幽静，绿树成荫。神学院所占的建筑曾是多明我会的一座修道院。两百多年以前，这个四四方方的院落曾被收拾得整整齐齐。笔直的黄杨树之间长着丛丛的迷迭香和薰衣草，被剪得短短的。现在，那些曾经栽种过它们的白袍修士全都入土为安，没有人再去想起他们。但是幽香的药草仍在静谧的仲夏夜晚开花吐艳，尽管再也没有人去采集花蕊炮制草药了。丛生的野荷兰芹和耧斗菜填满了石板路的裂缝，院中央的水井已经让位给了羊齿叶和纵横交错的景天草。玫瑰花蓬蓬，纷披的根伸出条蔓越过了小径;黄杨树篱闪耀着硕大的红霉粟花;高高的毛地黄在杂草的上面低垂下了头;无人照看的老葡萄藤也不结果，藤条从一棵已为人们遗忘的枸杞树枝上垂挂下来，摇晃着叶茂的枝头，慢悠悠的，却不停下来，带着一种哀怨。
    一棵夏季开花的木兰树挺立在院落的一角，高大的树干像是一座由茂密的树叶堆成的巨塔，四下探出乳白色的花朵。一只做工粗糙的木凳挨着树干，蒙泰尼里就坐在上面。亚瑟在大学里主修哲学，因为他在书上遇到了一道难题，所以就来找他的“Padre”解惑答疑。他并不是神学院的学生，但是蒙泰尼里对他来说却是一本百科全书。