為了看日出,我常常早起,那時天還沒有大亮,周圍非常清靜,船上只有機器的響聲。天空還是一片淺藍,顏色很淺。轉眼間天邊出現了一道紅霞,慢慢地在擴大它的范圍,加強它的亮光。我知道太陽要從天邊升起來了,便目不轉睛地望著那里,果然過了一會兒,在那個地方出現了太陽的小半邊臉,紅是真紅,卻沒有亮光。這個太陽好像負著重荷似地一步一步、慢慢地努力上升,到了最后,終于沖破了云霞,完全跳出了海面,顏色紅得非常可愛。
I would often get up early to watch sunrise when it was not yet quite light and all was quiet except for the droning of the ship engine. The sky was pale with a bluish blue. Soon a streak of rosy dawn broke over the horizon, expanding gradually and becoming brighter and brighter. Knowing that the sun was about to rise. I had my eyes fixed on the distant edge of the sea. As expected, the sun soon appeared revealing half of its face, which was very red but not bright. It kept rising laboriously bit by bit as if weighted down with a heavy burden until, after breaking through the rosy clouds, it completely emerged from the sea aglow with a lovely red.