And half a year after that, in the summer when the boy was five, I met Henry myself for the first time.
又过了半年,正值夏天,也就是在亨利刚好五岁的时候,我自己第一次单独和他见面。
A quahog's shell grows by a layer every year, in the summer when the water is warmer and food is plentiful.
在每年的夏季,如果水温适宜、食物充足,蛤蛎的壳就会长出一层线圈。
When the heat grew unbearable, he had retreated to an orchard, where, lying on his back in the long cool grass, he had traced the pattern of the apple-leaves diapered above him upon the summer sky.
当热得让人无法忍受时,他躲进果园里,仰面躺在清凉茂盛的草地上,在夏日的天空中描画着他头顶上的苹果树叶的形状。
When driving in a car on a hot summer day, you may see what looks like shimmering water on the road, which, as science tells us, is really just a mirage, an illusion caused by the heating of the air.
在炎热的夏天开车时,你可能会在路上看到闪闪发光的水,但科学告诉我们,这其实只是海市蜃楼,是空气加热造成的幻觉。
My father woke me up early one summer morning when I was fourteen and announced: "Get up. You're going with me to cut the grass in the garden."
我十四岁的一个夏日早晨,父亲把我早早叫醒,说:“起床了。你要和我一起去花园除草了。”
The first major sign of problems came in summer 2010, when the construction corporation pushed the opening from October 2011 to June 2012.
问题的第一个主要迹象出现在2010年夏天,建筑公司将开业时间从2011年10月推迟到2012年6月。
Last summer, when Chinese people fought the flood in the South, Beidou helped measure the rise and fall of the flood water.
去年夏天,当中国人民在南方抗洪时,北斗帮助测量了洪水的涨落。
When the days grew long in the middle of summer, Lisa liked to go to the park and watch the clouds.
每到盛夏,白昼渐渐变长,丽莎就喜欢去公园看云。
After each spike, including a big one in the summer of 2009 when she appeared on the cover of Playboy, the interest tapers off.
每一次停刊、包括2009年夏天一个大型的杂志——当时她出现在《花花公子》的封面上,人们的兴趣就会降低。
I went once in late summer, when, hunger aside, it was just about possible to persuade myself that I was on holiday — swims in the lake, sunbathing on the pontoon.
我曾在夏末之际去过一次,那时尽管饥饿,我尽可能试图说服我自己是在度假— 在湖中游游泳、浮桥上晒晒太阳。
He had quite forgotten his struggle to kiss her when, in the early summer, they had driven in the opposite direction along the same road.
当日夏初就在这同一条路上,他们驾车走的是相反的方向,当时他曾坚持要吻她,而现在他已经全忘光了。
Usually I go in the early evening, especially in the summer and fall, when the air in Washington is warm and still and the leaves on the trees barely rustle.
通常,我在傍晚进去,特别是在夏天和秋天,那时华府的空气温暖,而且寂静,树上的树叶几乎不会发出瑟瑟声。
It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.
这美妙的声音代替了现在还没有到来的夏日树叶飒飒声,等到树上生了果子,这声音就湮没了田庄附近的那种音乐。
The aim was to avoid a repeat of the summer of 1994, when tens of thousands of Cubans took to the sea in flimsy boats.
这样做的目的是为了避免重蹈1994年夏的覆辙。那时候上万古巴人就搭乘着弱不禁风的各式船只驶向大海。
Mukherjee started on the road to this book when he began advanced training in cancer medicine at the Dana-Farber cancer Institute in Boston in the summer of 2003.
2003年夏天,当穆克吉开始在波士顿丹娜-法伯癌症研究所接受癌症药物高级培训时,他就开始有了写这本书的想法。
Federer, 27, was cagey on exactly when the baby is due, saying only in the summer.
27岁的费德勒没有透露孩子确切的预产期,只是说在今年夏天。
You discovered first hand while meditating there, the area exuded a translucent wave field, similar to the mirage you see when observing heat rising from tarmac roads in the height of summer.
你在那里冥想时直接发现了这个情况,此地散发出一个半透明的波场(或者能量场),有点类似你盛夏时在柏油路上看到的因地面升温而产生的幻象。
For this reason the northern hemisphere enjoys summer while the southern has winter; and vice versa, when we have mid-winter, people in the other hemisphere are in the midst of summer.
因此,当北半球正享受着夏季的时候,南半球则正在经历着严冬,反之亦然,当我们处在冬天的时候,南半球的人们正在过着夏天。
That same day those who yearn for the olden days, when children played tag in the summer sunlight and rolled down grassy slopes with friendly dogs called Rover, received two more blows.
当孩子们在夏日的阳光下玩捉人游戏,在绿坡上同被称为“流浪者”的、友善的狗类一起滚爬嬉戏的时候,这些怀念过去的人们当天又受到两次打击。
The tales of gangster days interpenetrated with stories of when the Summer White House was in our town.
民间帮派蜂起时期的种种传闻往往穿插着这个小城镇夏季白宫的故事。
Some historians trace it back to the summer of 2003, when Roman Abramovich pitched up in London and began shovelling tenners on to the glowing embers in the furnace at Stamford Bridge.
有些历史学家认为这种感情的起点应该是2003年的夏天,彼时罗曼·阿布拉莫维奇君临伦敦,开始为斯坦福桥的崛起贡献着自己无穷无尽的英镑。
Back when I was living in Noida, I would occasionally sleep on the balcony when there was a long power failure-there were many in the summer.
以前住在诺伊达的时候,遇到长时间停电,我偶尔会睡在外面的露台上。那时夏天经常停电。
Yet the timing of the summer break dates from the days when child Labour was too valuable to lose in the vital final weeks of the growing season.
但暑假的时间设置其实是源自于童工十分珍贵的年代,人们不愿在农忙时节最需要帮手让孩子们呆在学校里。
The bombshell burst this week, in the dog days of summer, when fewer Japanese were likely to be bothered.
三伏之夏,在没有任何一个日本人愿意被打扰的日子里,本周却发生了一件令人震惊的事件。
Navigation was confined to shallow vessels, tricky enough even in the few summer months when the river was free of ice.
航行船只局限于小船,即使在短短夏季数月的无冰期,通行起来也足够困难。
Sendai is home to the most famous and romantic of summer festivals, Tanabata, when the stars Vega and Altair, who are in love but separated by the Milky Way, are reunited for one night.
仙台是最著名最浪漫的夏季节日七夕节的发源地,织女星与牛郎星相爱却为银河所隔,那一晚,他们将会重聚。
Sendai is home to the most famous and romantic of summer festivals, Tanabata, when the stars Vega and Altair, who are in love but separated by the Milky Way, are reunited for one night.
仙台是最著名最浪漫的夏季节日七夕节的发源地,织女星与牛郎星相爱却为银河所隔,那一晚,他们将会重聚。
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