While he stood the dawn grew visible in the northeast quarter of the heavens, which, the clouds having cleared off, was bright with a soft sheen at this midsummer time, though it was only between one and two o'clock.
他站着的时候,天空的东北面已经渐渐露出曙色,在这仲夏季节,虽然还只是一两点钟,因为云彩散尽,夜空泛出一层柔和的亮光。