The Garden Party -01

The Garden Party

        AND after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels.

after all  [ˈɑ:ftə ɔ:l] 毕竟；究竟；归根结底；（解释或说明理由）别忘了

be up [bi: ʌp]  起床

cannot help doing v. 不得不做 忍不住 禁不住

come out [kʌm aut]  出来；出现；出版；出狱

archangel ['ɑ:keɪndʒl] 天使长，大天使

关于 archangel 有一个说法：http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100106143321AAT8bIV

In reality, all Archangels are "leaders" like Gabriel and Michael. They are the angels that are like generals in the Army.