Sunrise at sea

Sunrise at sea

Ba Jin

I would often getup early to watch the sunrise when it was not yet quiet light and all was quietexcept for the droning of the ship engine.

    The sky was pale with a bluish blue. Soon astreak of pink dawn broke over the horizon, expanding gradually and becomingbrighter and brighter. Knowing that the sun was about to rise, I had my eyesfixed on the distant edge of the sea.

    As expected, the sun soon appeared revealinghalf of its face, which was very red but not bright. It kept rising laboriouslybit by bit as if weighted down with a heavy burden on its back until, afterbreaking through the rosy clouds; it completely emerged from the sea aglow witha lovely red. Then, before I knew it, the dark red orb began to shineblazingly, dazzling my eyes until they stung and all of a sudden lighting upthe surrounding cloud.

    Sometimes, hidden by the clouds, the sunnonetheless shed its rays straight onto the sea water, marking it difficult forme to distinguish between the sky and the sea because what I saw in front of mewas nothing but a wide expanse of brilliant light.

Sometimes, withthick layers of dark clouds hanging in the sky, the sun was hardly visible tothe naked eye. But its radiance managed to show through the dark clouds to edgethem with golden lace. Then, after gradually breaking through the tightencirclement, it came into full view and even dyed the dark douds and theseawater, I too was luminous.

    Wasn’t that a marvelous spectacle?

没有见过海上日出，也没有看过日出。曾经新年的第一道曙光，是可以看到的，只可惜估计错误，以为当天没有日出，然后就离开了。离开之后太阳便缓缓升起。可能看日出没有多神奇的一件事情，但是和着一大帮人，就像这把这件事实践一下。一起做过一件事情，一起熬过漫长的寒夜，一起等待黎明，回忆起来总是美好的。趁着年轻，有机会，定要跟朋友去看看日出。