Sun Stripe Crosses the Feather Page - 適合初學者的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

Warm paper smell rises from the open book.

Eve sits in the father's lap.

His shirt is soft on her back.

The smooth page rests on her knees.

Small finger smudges mark the lower corner.

His arm reaches around to steady the book.

Soft fur touches her outer leg.

The curled pet breathes, slow and even.

A sun stripe slides onto the page.

Light moves.

Dust motes float in the stripe.

Dust floats.

Eve leans close to see a printed feather.

Fine lines cross the feather.

The spread shows one sort of feather here,

and another there by the middle fold.

The father says, "It is bright here."

The bright stripe covers the fine lines.

Eve tilts her head a little.

She narrows one eye.

Eve squints.

A fine hair lifts from the pet.

It drifts across the stripe and breaks the bright patch.

The stripe shifts off the feather a touch.

The paper smell drifts closer to Eve's nose.

打開的書散出溫暖的紙味。

Eve 坐在爸爸的大腿上。

他的襯衫在她背上很柔軟。

光滑的頁面靠在她的膝上。

小小的指紋印在下角。

他的手臂繞過來托住書本。

柔軟的毛貼著她外側的腿。

蜷著的寵物呼吸著，緩慢而均勻。

一道陽光帶著條紋滑到頁面上。

光在移動。

細小的灰塵在光帶中飄著。

灰塵在飄。

Eve 靠近身體去看一根印在頁上的羽毛。

細細的線條穿過這根羽毛。

這一跨頁在這裡畫著一種羽毛，

中間摺縫那邊又畫著另一種。

爸爸說：「這裡很亮。」

亮亮的光帶蓋住了細線。

Eve 把頭微微一偏。

她眯起一隻眼。

Eve 眯眼。

一根細毛從寵物身上飄起。

它飄過光帶，打散那塊亮斑。

光帶微微離開那根羽毛。

紙味飄得更靠近 Eve 的鼻尖。