她的眼睛睁得更大了，她凝视着海绿色的有花纹的天鹅绒，闪闪发光的黄铜、银和玻璃，还有像油池表面一样暗亮的木头。

Her eyes opened wider and she contemplated the sea-green figured velvet, the shining brass, silver, and glass, the wood that gleamed as darkly brilliant as the surface of a pool of oil.

youdao

可是小人鱼没有这样做的必要，固为当珊瑚虫一看到这亮晶晶的药水——它在她的手里亮得像一颗闪耀的星星——的时候，它们就在她面前惶恐地缩回去了。

But the little mermaid had no occasion to do this, for the polypi sprang back in terror when they caught sight of the glittering draught, which shone in her hand like a twinkling star.

youdao

闪光灯亮个不停，像大西洋里岩石峭壁上方的星星那样闪烁。

"As flashes exploded around us, constant like the stars over the rocky crags of the Atlantic."

youdao

So this is like your children's book representation of the Christian God, and there it is as a blinding white cloud. You wouldn't even need the curls and the beard if you just had the blinding and the white.

这就像你们儿童书里上帝的代表，它就像一朵亮白的云，你甚至不需要,卷曲状和胡须状的图像，即使你只看的，亮白。

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