即使當春天真的來臨,它也不是一下子浸染(整片)山穀;它從較低海拔處悄然(蔓延)至較高處。因此,當最底部土地已經新生如焰時,那些高聳的北向山坡才剛剛開始擺脫冬日的擁抱。
-- 摘自The Northwest Coast
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Even when spring does come, it does not suffuse the valley all at once; it creeps from lower elevations to higher. Thus the lofty north-facing slopes are barely beginning to shrug off winter‘s embrace at the time when the bottomland is already ablaze with new growth.