The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.

黑色棺罩星装饰着泪珠般白点，时时刻刻风会掀起罩，露出棺木来。 抬棺材人走累了，就走慢点，于是棺木一颠一颠，好像迎风破浪、下颠簸小船。

Why, then, —while so much of the soil around him was bestrewn with the virgin forest leaves, —why should Colonel Pyncheon prefer a site that had already been accurst?

那么，为什么——虽然他周围许多土壤都满了原始森林树叶——为什么品钦校偏爱一个已经被破点？

The arbor was vacant, and its floor, table, and circular bench were still damp, and bestrewn with twigs and the disarray of the past storm.

凉亭是空，它板、桌子和圆形长凳仍然潮湿，到处都是树枝和过去暴风雨造成混乱。

The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar as a precaution against gowl air and gowl fever.

法庭内四处撒满了草药，并喷洒了醋，以预防污浊空气和瘟疫。