Heart of Darkness(黑暗的心)
Joseph Conrad
Chapter 1
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a
flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind
was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for
it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
The sea–reach of the Thames stretched before us like the
beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and
the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous
space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide
seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked,
with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores
that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above
Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful
gloom, brooding motionless o…