All that day, from morning until past sunset, the cannon never ceased to roar. It was dark when the cannonading stopped all of a sudden.

整整那一天，从清晨到太阳下山，大炮没有停止轰轰作响，黑夜中，连续不断的炮声突然停止。

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David paused before he opened the back door, enjoying a moment alone in the humming dark that was always nervous with the noise from the motorway: not a roar, but a thin murmur of movement that sucked substance from everything it reached.

NEWYORKER: The Swan