In parks, and on the stretches of grass beside the Seine, I read Balzac and Zola and Colette and Flaubert:2 novels about society and the human heart.

在公园里，在塞纳河边的草地上，我读着巴尔扎克、左拉、科莱特和福楼拜：他们那些描写社会和人性的小说。

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Your heart and my heart string of a string, string of one individual plant grass friendship, a happy circle.

把你的心我的心串一串，串一株友谊草，串一个开心圆。

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Who says the blade of grass heart, the newspaper three parental affections!

谁说草叶的心脏，报纸三父母的感情！

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The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.

WSJ: Modern Pastoral