One day in the afternoon, in the garden of the famous Giant Elephant Group Headquarter Building located in Manhattan, New York, a gray-haired old man was concentrating on trimming low shrubs.

一天下午，位于纽约曼哈顿的著名企业巨象集团总部大厦楼下的花园里，一位头发花白的老人正在聚精会神地修剪低矮的灌木。

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Then with a bag of toys and books we walked across the garden in the gray light of the dawn.

我们提着一口袋的玩具和书籍，在晨曦中穿过了花园。

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A few days later, Lord Henry and Dorian Gray met at Basil's house and went for a walk in the garden.

几天之后，亨利勋爵和格雷在罗勒的家，去花园里走走。

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The best part of the day was getting up at dawn and going down to the cool gray kitchen, the dark garden waiting at the door like some curious beast strayed in from the fields, a casual attentiveness in the coming light that seemed ready to include me, as it did everything else, in a soft, foreign stillness.

NEWYORKER: The Cold Outside