大头鸟 的好看簿

It may be safely assumed that, two thousand years ago, before Caesar Set foot in Southern Britain, the whole countryside visible from the windows of the room in which I write,was in what is called "the state of Nature." Except, it may be, by raising a few sepulchral mounds, such as those which still, here and there, break the flowing contours of the downs,man's hands had made no mark upon it; and the thin veil of vegetation which overspread the broad-backed heights and the shelving sides of the coombs,was unaffected by his industry. The native grasses and weeds, the scattered patches of gores, contended with one another for the possession of the scanty surface soil; they fought against the droughts of summer,the frosts of winter, and the furious gales which swept with unbroken force, now from the Atlantic,and now from the North Sea, at all times of the year; they filled up, as they might, the gaps made in their ranks by all sorts of underground animal ravagers. One year after another, with an average population,the floating balance of the unceasing struggle for existence among the indigenous plants, maintianed itself.
首先看社科院的翻译：
可以有把握地想象，两千年前，在凯撒到达不列颠南部之前。从我正在写作的这间屋子的窗口，可以看到整个原野是处在一种所谓“自然状态”之中。也许除了就像现在还在这里活那里破坏这连绵丘陵轮廓的为数不多的一些垒起的坟堆以外，人的双手还没有在它上面打上烙印。笼罩着广阔高地和峡谷斜坡的薄薄的植被，还没有受到人的劳动的影响。本地的牧草和杂草，分散在一小块一小块土地上的金雀花，为了占据贫乏的表面土壤而互相竞争着：它们同夏天的干旱斗争，同冬季的严霜斗争，同一年四季时而从大西洋时而从北海不断吹来的狂风斗争；它们竭尽全力来填补各种地面上和地下的动物破坏者在它们行列中间所造成的孔隙。年复一年，它们总维持着一种平均的类群数量，也就是本地之外在不断的生存斗争中维持着一种流动的平衡。

严复的翻译：
赫胥黎独处一室之中，在英伦之南，背山而面野。槛外诸景，历历如在几下。乃悬想两千年前，当罗马大将凯撒未到时，此间有何景物。计唯有天造草昧，人功未施，其借佂入境者，不过几处塃坟，散见陂陀起伏间。而灌木丛林，蒙茸山麓，未经删治。如今者，则无疑也。怒生之草，交加之藤，势如争长相雄，各据一抔壤土，夏与畏日争，冬与严霜争，四时之内，飘风怒吹，或西发西洋，或东起北海，旁午交扇，无时而息。上有鸟兽之践啄，下有蝼蚁之齿伤，憔悴孤虚，旋生旋灭，宛枯顷刻，莫可究详。是离离者亦各尽天能，以自存种族而已。数亩之内，战事炽然，强者后亡，弱者先绝，年年岁岁，偏有留遗，未知始自何年，更不知止于何代。