The sound seemed to fill the house, and then she was moving, moving like water, like the cold rushing of a mountain stream.

这声响声音似乎弥漫了整个屋子。她开始动了，她像水，像一股冰冷湍急的山间溪水一样活动。

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What begins like a narrow mountain stream gradually opens up into a wide seagoing estuary, criss-crossed by multiple tributaries, and then bursts into an out-of-control, surging flood tide.

人群如山间细流一般，慢慢汇聚，奔腾向东，流入大海。 中途不断有纵横交错的支流涌入，最后迸发出无可阻挡的人潮人海。

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He splashed over to the foot of the stairs and looked up at a ladder of water coming down, a scrim of ice on the edges like a mountain stream.

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