Holly hung around every doorway; and shining white Christmas trees covered in magical snow and icicles glittered in every corner, each topped with a gleaming gold star.

每个门口都挂着冬青，用魔法加盖了自雪和冰凌的圣诞树在每个屋角闪闪发亮，树着一颗闪烁的金星。

The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.

农场那座粉刷白了的砖房如同落在茫茫红海中的一个岛屿，那是一起由新月形巨浪组成的大海，但是当那些带粉红红的水波分裂为浪花时，它立即僵化了。

The cathedral spire in Christchurch, New Zealand falls as an earthquake leaves 182 dead.

地震导致新西兰基督城大教堂的坍塌，造成 182 死亡。

Scores of the relics that survived were taken to the Louvre Museum, what was lost the cathedral's spire, large parts of its roof and it's ancient vaulted ceiling.

幸存下来的几十件文物被送到了卢浮宫博物馆，大教堂的、大分的屋和古老的拱形天花板都被毁掉了。

Its steeped form reduces in size and tops out unevenly around a central spire.

它陡峭的外形缩小了体积，绕着一个高不平的中央。

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced an international competition to redesign the roof and 300 foot spire the flames destroyed.

法国总理Edouard Philippe 宣布了一项重新设计屋和300英尺的国际竞赛。

Torajans are famous for their massive peaked-roof houses and spectacular but gruesome funeral rites.

托拉哈人以其巨大的房屋和壮观但可怕的葬礼仪式而闻名。

The folks here say normally you'd barely be able to see even the tip of the medieval church because it would be almost fully submerged.

当地居民称，通常情况下，人们甚至连中世纪教堂的都看不见，因为它几乎完全被淹没了。

An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin, was perched on his head, and the rest of the figure was a blue suit of clothes, worn and faded, which had also been stuffed with straw.

戴着一芒奇金人的破旧蓝色的帽子，身上套着蓝色的衣服，已经褪了色了，身体里面也是用稻草充塞。

I had come ten miles since leaving the town, and at this point, according to my father, I should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley, with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance.

从小镇出来，我走了10英里。照父亲的说法，我面前应是一个山谷，有农场与村舍，还可远远望见老家村子里的教堂的。

Rising up from the skyline is the spire of Toledo Cathedral.

从地平线上升起的是托莱多大教堂的。

It rose from the semi-globular mound like a spike from a helmet.

它从那个半圆球型的小丘升起，像是钢盔的一样。

Something with long teeth and a pointy hat, at any rate.

总而言之，是留着长獠牙、戴着帽的玩偶。

It doesn't matter that the big donors haven't yet paid because the choices about the spire and the major architectural decisions will happen probably late in 2020, he said.

" 大型捐赠者没有出资不重要，因为关于的选择和主要建筑决策可能要到2020年底才能做出。"

It was a sea of pointed black hats; each of the long House tables was lined with students, their faces glimmering by the light of thousands of candles, which were floating over the tables in midair.

礼堂里是一片黑帽子的海洋；每张长长的桌子旁边都坐满了生，成千支蜡烛照得他们脸庞发亮，这些蜡烛悬浮在桌子上方的半空中。

The clock hands on the steeple of St. Anthony's Shrine were stuck at 8: 45 a.m., the exact moment when the first suicide bomber's explosion ripped through the wooden pews as Easter Sunday worshipers were praying.

圣安东尼教堂上的时钟指针停在了上午8点45分的位置，也就是在那一刻，第一起自杀式炸弹袭击炸穿了教堂里的木头长椅，当时，礼拜人群正在参加复活节礼拜。

Oh, if only I had been a man! I looked at them from my window -- the fat swine, with their pointed helmets -- and my maid held my hands to keep me from throwing my furniture down on them.

唉，如果我是个男人就好了！我一定跟他们拼！我从我的窗口瞧着他们，这些头戴头盔的大肥猪，我的女佣人抓住了我的手，不让我把家具扔下去砸断他们的脊梁骨。

At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy.

起初，同伴们是绝对相信他的，而且飞行带来的乐趣太大了，看到教堂的，或别的什么高高的东西，他们就绕着转圈儿，浪费了许多时间。

At that moment a very strange thing happened. The moon was low upon our right, and in its light we could see the top of a hill.

就在那时，发生了一件非常奇怪的事情。月亮悬在我们右侧的空中，我们在月光下看到一座小山的。

As for the savages, they went back to shore near eleven o'clock in the morning, when the heads of coral began to disappear under the waves of the rising tide.

至于那些土人，在早晨十一点左右，当珊瑚石开始在上涨的潮水下隐没不见时，都回到岸上去了。