Not a village, not a human being, not a tree, not a blade of grass — the only breaks in the monotonous whiteness are gaping cracks which in places show the layer of moist, black clay underneath.

没有村庄，没有人烟，没有树木，也没有草叶——单调的白色当中，唯一打破沉寂的是那些偶尔露出底下湿黑土壤的巨大裂缝。

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One was gaunt and sallow, with thinning black hair and a blade of a nose. The other was wide of shoulder and round of belly, with corkscrew ringlets tumbling past his collar.

其中一人面色蜡黄憔悴不堪，有着稀薄的黑头发和刀削般的鼻子，另一个则有着宽厚的肩膀和圆圆的肚子，打着旋儿的长发爬过他的领子。

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The viscid dot appears on the front of blade, when it is moist, and change into black at the time of the dryness;

叶片病斑初为暗褐色小点，后扩大成黑褐色圆斑，潮湿时在叶片正面产生橘红色粘质小点，干燥时转变为黑色；

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Citrine gemstones adorn the button lock and the thumb stud, pairing beautifully with the chestnut wood scale, the gold accents of the bolster and the elegant black blade.

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Slender, sheathed in black leather, with short ebony hair sticking up in a tuft, her fingers sticking out of black woollen gloves as they skitter across a keyboard, Mara cuts through scene after scene like a swift, dark blade.

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