A Hero of Our Time

What a glorious place that valley is! On every hand are inaccessible mountains, steep, yellow slopes scored by water-channels, and reddish rocks draped with green ivy and crowned with clusters of plane-trees.

那个山谷真是壮丽！四周都是难以攀登的山脉，陡峭的黄色斜坡被水道切割，红色的岩石上覆盖着绿色的常春藤，并且点缀着一簇簇的梧桐树。

Down below rolls the River Aragva, which, after bursting noisily forth from the dark and misty depths of the gorge, with an unnamed stream clasped in its embrace, stretches out like a thread of silver, its waters glistening like a snake with flashing scales.

下面流淌着阿腊格瓦河，它从峡谷的黑暗和雾气中汹涌而出，拥抱一条无名的小溪，像一条银线一样展开，河水闪闪发光，就像一条身上有闪亮鳞片的蛇。