与田蟋柔软的短促叫声不同（一位诗人称它们是“草地的吟游诗人”），知了和蝈蝈制造一种让人们无法交谈的震耳欲聋的嗤嗤声。

In contrast to the soft trill of the field cricket — "the bard of the grass, " one poet calls them — cicadas and katydids produce the kind of deafening hiss that can drown out conversation.

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突然，一个闪电击中了田边的一棵楝树，顿时满眼刺眼的光亮，炸裂声似乎要侵入他们脚下的地板。

A bolt struck a tall chinaberry tree at the edge of the field. It filled all visible space with a blinding glare and the crash seemed to invade the very boards they stood upon.

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