【英文原文】

Winter gives us the opportunity to stay inside and look outside, as we're not called outdoors to enjoy the warmth and sunshine. Snuggle up in the sofa, put a blanket over you, have a cup of hot cocoa, and enjoy the observations on this precious season…

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: It is the time for home.

During the winter I am content，or try to think I am. There is a wonderful joy in leaving behind the noisy city streets and starting out along the white road that leads across the hills. With each breath of the sharp, reviving air one seems to inhale new life. A peace as evident as the sunshine on the fields takes possession of one's inner being. The trivial cares are driven away by the first sweep of wind that comes straight from the mountains. The intense silence that broods over the snow-bound land is a conscious blessing from the nature.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter: Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

【中文譯文】

當我們沒有出外享受溫暖和陽光時，冬季為人們創造了一個呆在室內，觀察室外的機會。鋪條毯子在身上，卷曲在沙發上，喝著一杯熱可可，享受著觀察這個美麗季節之快樂。

冬季是一個享受舒適，美食與溫馨的季節。冬季也是傳遞友誼的季節，冬季還是圍坐在火爐旁談天說地的季節。冬季是享受家之溫暖的季節。

在冬季，我很滿足，或自認為滿足。把喧鬧的城市街區拋在身后，沿著白皚皚的公路前往山崗。在每一次強烈，復蘇的呼吸下，整個人也好像注入了新生。照射在田野上的寧靜的陽光同時也感染了我們的內心世界。從山崗上徑直吹來的第一絲風也將心中瑣碎的煩惱一并吹走。白雪覆蓋著的大地顯得分外寂靜，這是一份來自大自然的祝福。

有時我們的命運就像冬天里的一棵果樹：當時，誰會去想這棵果樹的枝葉會再次變綠，開花，但我們一直懷有希望，并堅定著信念。