The sky looks solid, like a vault of steel set with diamonds!

天空一眼望去是那么地坚固，如同一片镶着钻的钢质穹窿！

The classic vision of the heavens is that of an immense vault, which is beautiful because it stands for order and perfection.

经典的天空视觉是一个巨大的穹窿， 因为它代表着秩序和完善而更显美丽。

While exchanging this chitchat, we entered beneath the dark canopies of the forest, and for two hours we explored it in every direction.

当我们彼此说笑话，交换一些意见的时，我们穿人了森林的阴沉的穹窿下，只有两小时的功夫，我们四面八方都走遍了。

I distinguished the unpredictably contoured springings of a vault, supported by natural pillars firmly based on a granite foundation, like the weighty columns of Tuscan architecture.

我分辨出那些由天然柱支架起来的、穹窿很宽大的形成轮廓的起拱，这些柱的宽大底座安在花岗岩的，像托斯甘式建筑的笨重柱那样。

Slanting inward over their base, these high walls converged to form a vault shaped like an immense upside-down funnel that measured 500 or 600 meters in height.

周围的高墙，下部倾斜，面是穹窿的圆顶，形状很像倒过来的漏斗，高度为为五百至百米。

And there, unpent by mountains, one saw the sky, the sky not such a disk as one saw it here, but an arch of immeasurable blue, a deep of deeps in which the circling stars were floating.

在那里，没有山峦的阻隔， 人们得以一览无垠的天空，那不是如这里所见的一个圆盘般的天空，而是一道无边无际的蓝色拱顶， 一个深邃至极的穹窿， 其中环绕的星辰仿佛在漂浮。