即使当春天真的来临,它也不是一下子浸染(整片)山谷;它从较低海拔处悄然(蔓延)至较高处。因此,当最底部土地已经新生如焰时,那些高耸的北向山坡才刚刚开始摆脱冬日的拥抱。
-- 摘自The Northwest Coast
注:有两句
Even when spring does come, it does not suffuse the valley all at once; it creeps from lower elevations to higher. Thus the lofty north-facing slopes are barely beginning to shrug off winter‘s embrace at the time when the bottomland is already ablaze with new growth.