On the whole, you may be pretty sure, if you go into your garden, and find many flowers — as tulips, marigolds and morning glories — shut, it will be a stormy day, unfit for picnics or long walks.

总的来说，如果你走进花园，发现郁金香、金盏花和牵牛花都合上了花瓣，你可以肯定，这天将会有暴风雨，不适合野餐或长时间散步。

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If you go into the garden, and find the African marigolds shut after seven o'clock in the morning, you may be pretty sure that there will be a rainy day.

如果你走进花园，发现非洲金盏花在早上7点后就不开花了，你可以很肯定，这将是一个雨天。

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Outside in the sunrise garden roses are already awake, clematis climbs like a growing child and all the border marigolds are on fire.

外面花园里，玫瑰早已在日出中醒来，攀爬的铁线莲像茁壮成长的孩子，花园边沿花坛里的金盏花一片火红。

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Nadesar guests invariably want to witness the daily spectacle (best seen by boat): children plunging off the ghats, ascetics in search of alms, shrouded bodies covered in marigolds delivered to the funeral pyres.

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Families thus begin preparations to help the spirits find their way home and to make them welcome, starting with an arch made of bright-yellow marigolds - a symbolic doorway from the underworld.

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On the windowsill was a vase of marigolds.

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