时维九月，序属三秋。潦水尽而寒潭清，烟光凝而暮山紫。俨骖騑于上路，访风景于崇阿；临帝子之长洲，得天人之旧馆。层峦耸翠，上出重霄；飞阁流丹，下临无地。鹤汀凫渚，穷岛屿之萦回；桂殿兰宫，即冈峦之体势。

潦水：puddles on the ground
（水）清：translucent
（光）凝：condense
（景物）令人向往：… beckons
层峦耸翠：ranges upon ranges of green mountains
下临无地：hover in the air/ No land is visible from its heights.

披绣闼，俯雕甍，山原旷其盈视，川泽纡其骇瞩。闾阎扑地，钟鸣鼎食之家；舸舰弥津，青雀黄龙之舳。云销雨霁，彩彻区明。落霞与孤鹜齐飞，秋水共长天一色。渔舟唱晚，响穷彭蠡之滨；雁阵惊寒，声断衡阳之浦。

绣闼：door carved with decorative patterns
雕甍：brightly tinted roof tiles, each elaborately engraved with lovely etchings
…尽收眼底：a panorama of… stretches beneath sb.
虹销雨霁：rain+let up; rainbow+vanish
长天：boundless sky
响穷：(voices) drift as far as…/ cry all the way