Flower Outline Meets a Chapel Window - 適合初學者的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

A soft page hush drifts.

Yara stands at the table.

Rough cloth holds her elbows; old pollen dots paper.

The grandmother stands beside her.

Light from the window lies across wood.

A faint paper smell stays.

A small round token rests by the book.

Her thumb rests near the token.

On the pressing paper, a wet print pales.

Yara watches the wet print.

A page edge shades the spot.

Yara tilts a little.

Dry air thins the dark shape.

Its edge looks feathery now.

The grandmother says, "Soft and slow."

Very soft.

Thin pollen dust dots the open page.

At the flower pile, one drop shrinks.

Warm light touches the petal tip.

The rim shines, then tightens.

So quiet.

A picture sits on the open page.

It shows a chapel window.

A faint old outline shows through.

It lines up with the window.

Back to the paper.

The wet print looks lighter.

Its center almost vanishes now.

Bare white paper waits under it.

Yara leans and watches it pale again.

書頁傳來輕輕的沙沙聲。

Yara 站在桌邊。

粗糙的布托著她的手肘，舊花粉點在紙上。

外婆站在她身旁。

窗邊的光鋪在木面上。

淡淡的紙味停在空氣裡。

一本書旁放著一枚小圓代幣。

她的大拇指停在代幣旁。

在壓花用紙上，濕印記正在變淡。

Yara 看著這個濕印記。

書頁的邊緣在那一處投下小小的陰影。

Yara 稍微側一側身。

乾燥的空氣把深色的形狀變薄。

它的邊緣現在很細碎。

外婆說：「好輕，好慢。」

很輕。

薄薄的花粉點在打開的書頁上。

在花堆那裡，有一滴水正在縮小。

溫暖的光碰到花瓣尖端。

邊緣先發亮，接著收緊。

好安靜。

打開的書頁上有一張圖。

圖上是教堂的窗。

一個淡淡的舊輪廓透了出來。

它和那扇窗對在一起。

視線回到那張紙。

濕印記看起來更淡了。

中間現在幾乎不見了。

底下的白紙正空著。

Yara 再次側身看著它繼續變淡。