He was often mistaken for a ghost by children; and for a pollard willow by men, when, on their way home in the dusk, they saw him motionless by some rushy bank, unobservant of the decline of day.
他经常被孩子们误鬼魂;而对于一棵男的柳树,当他们在黄的路上,他们看到他在一些湍急的河岸上一动不动,没有注意到白天的衰落。