He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake.

他满眼哀伤，仰望着深蓝色的天空，那儿，星星如清澈平静的湖面上的朵朵白莲在漂移着；

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He had to wait days until a one-hour window of clear sky broke out, enabling him to quickly grab his camera and take his pictures at the remote lake location.

在一个人迹罕至的湖畔，他等了好几天才等到一个小时适合拍照的晴空——时机一出现，他立马带上相机出去拍照。

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In fact, sky-watchers were snapping pictures of auroras as far south as Oslo, Lake Manitoba in Canada, and Lake Superior (map) in the United States.

事实上，天空观测者在较南的奥斯陆、加拿大马尼托巴湖和美国的苏必利尔湖都拍摄到了极光的照片。

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Then I began to laugh, because of what we had both said, and because of her laughter and the sun and the sky and the lake.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

Its isolated branch on a Lake Victoria island receives money from the sky: with no landing strip, planes drop bags of cash to be collected by staff and security guards.

ECONOMIST: Business in Africa