Moth Shadow Over the Stepping Stones - 適合初級的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

Damp grass smell rose along the garden bed edge.

Zara stood on the wide flat dark stone.

A short boardwalk lay near the bench by the bend.

A lantern glowed steady above its small stone base.

The grandfather knelt at the garden bed with a cloth.

His glasses sat on his hair.

He tucked a folded list under his knee.

A moth drew graceful loops around the glass globe.

Its shadow slid across the smaller round grey stone.

The pool edge softened, then sharpened, then softened again.

Zara noticed the rhythm and counted one slow loop.

"They go around, then gone, then around," she said.

The grandfather said, "I can see it too."

Zara waited for the clear edge on the pale stone.

A thin dim gap lay between the stones.

The shadow slid away and left the edge bright.

She stepped to the tall thin oblong pale stone.

She reached to the small rounded white pebble.

It slipped from her fingers, tapped the stone, and rolled.

The tap startled the moth into a wider swerve.

Its big shadow swept over the grandfather's folded list.

His hand paused, then he lifted the cloth again.

The pebble stopped in the warm pool and stayed.

A thin smear of path dust stretched across the pale stone.

Zara pressed the pebble flat with one finger.

The moth circled back to its graceful loop.

It skimmed past the glass again.

潮溼草香從花園邊緣升起。

Zara 站在寬而平的深色石板上。

轉彎處的長椅旁放著一小段木板步道。

一盞燈在小石座上穩穩發著暖光。

祖父跪在花圃邊，手裡拿著拋光布。

他的眼鏡頂在頭髮上。

他把一張摺好的清單塞在膝蓋下。

一隻飛蛾在玻璃球外畫出優雅的圈。

牠的影子滑過較小的圓形灰色石板。

光圈邊緣先柔，再銳利，又再柔起來。

Zara 注意到這個節奏，數了一圈。

「牠們繞一圈，又不見了，又繞一圈。」她說。

祖父說：「我也看得到。」

Zara 等著淡白石板上清晰的邊緣。

兩塊石頭之間躺著一道微暗的細縫。

影子滑開，邊緣留出明亮的一刻。

她踩到高而細長的淡色石板上。

她伸手去拿那顆小而圓的白色石子。

它從她手指滑落，輕點石面，又滾了一下。

那一下聲響把飛蛾嚇得偏開更大一圈。

牠的大影子掃過祖父摺好的清單。

他的手停了一下，然後又提起拋光布。

石子停在暖光圈裡不再動。

淡色石板上拉出一道細細的粉塵抹痕。

Zara 用一根手指把石子按平。

飛蛾又回到優雅的盤旋。

牠再度掠過玻璃旁邊。