Not so in winter, yet the bare trees against the backdrop of a cloudless blue sky, punctuated by vultures riding the thermals, provided a stark beauty all of its own.

而冬天的景致则全然不同，光秃的树木、蔚蓝的长空以及几只乘着气流翱翔的秃鹫共同组成了一幅独具特色的苍凉画卷。

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Cloudless, that is, except for two or three long white lines smeared across the perfect blue sky by airplanes like smudges on a pane of glass.

万里无云，在这里是指除了划过湛蓝天空的那两三条白色飞机轨迹外，那些轨迹就如同窗格玻璃上的污点痕迹一般。

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The sky is still a perfect cloudless blue and the forecasters have dropped their previous prediction of rain by the weekend.

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As the breeze whipped the snow in little maelstroms of white, I stopped halfway and tilted my face to the cloudless, sapphire-blue sky.

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