One side was dense honeysuckle. The other was open and slanted down to a telescoped view of the city. The white cloud was directly in front of them.

一边是浓密的金银花，另一边很开阔，倾斜的路面,向人们展示了整座城市的缩影，那朵白云在他们正前方。

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The place is interesting because it's like a microcosm of the history,

这个地方很有意思，因为它像历史的一个缩影，

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It's a microcosm. It is a distillation or quintessence.

是真实世界的缩影，也是精华和本质的东西。

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I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book, with respect to its craft. Let's look at how this opens: "The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.

我认为这一章是整本书的缩影，关于这个的写法，让我们一起看一下她是如何开头的：,第二天下午，当他拿回自己的车时，他把它开出去,开到农村里，想看看开着它在平坦的公路上时，它的性能如何。

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