The court or quadrangle was stone-paved, and open to the sky.

四方的庭院是用石头铺成的，上面露天。

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You are made to feel you are there, moving through these places, looking up at the sky or down at the ground, and pausing to examine more closely a particular stone, boat or building.

你还能感觉身临其境，在各处走动，往上看天或是向下看地，或是停下来更细致地察看一块石头、一艘船或是一座建筑物。

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It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain; and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the crossroads.

那是一个郁闷酷热的日子，没有阳光，天上却阴霾不雨；我们相见的地点约定在十字路口的指路碑那儿。

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He used this stone to knock a hole through the plaster, lathing, and masonry of the supposed sky, and when the stone rattled off into emptiness on the other side he reached up into the hole and pulled himself through.

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Roosevelt is stark and elemental but also very lyrical in the careful dialogue it arranges between trees, stone, sky and water (and so well conceived and executed that Superstorm Sandy didn't leave a scratch).

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For Stone, the sky wasn't the limit.

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