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来源：百度知道 编辑：UC知道 时间：2024/05/17 05:47:36
I dismounted and stood listening. Branches arched like claws overhead. The sky crawled on a white belly of clouds. Shadows fell in tessellated patterns of grey and black. There was a faint thrumming all around, as if the air were being strung and practised for an overture.

我下马伫立倾听,在高处的弓形树枝向爪子一样。天空在鼓胀得像肚子一样的白云上移动，阴影笼罩出了黑灰色方格斑纹的图案，四周围是微弱的敲打声，就好象空气被缚扎了起来标志着前奏的开始。