A little pocket-knife sufficed him and, with his spectacles on his nose he would spend whole days in chipping bits of boxwood and ebony.

折刀就足够，他鼻子上架副眼镜，整天都在砍黄杨木和乌木。

Even in the days before my teacher came, I used to feel along the square stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense of smell would find the first violets and lilies.

直到我的老师出现之前，我直习惯于沿正方形的黄杨木树篱摸索前行。嗅觉是我的向导，通过它，我发现生命中的第株紫罗兰花和百合花。

The seminary occupied the buildings of an old Dominican monastery, and two hundred years ago the square courtyard had been stiff and trim, and the rosemary and lavender had grown in close-cut bushes between the straight box edgings.

神学院旧多米尼加修道院的建筑，两百年前，方形庭院整齐干净，迷迭香和薰衣草在笔直的黄杨边缘之间修剪得整整齐齐的灌木丛中生长。