and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet.

还有一次，她穿着长筒袜子和拖鞋，能用脚步识别出藏在地毯下面的一幅画的轮廓和颜色。

Beyond two or three days, the world's best weather forecasts are speculative,

世界上最好的两三天以上的天气预报具有很强的猜测性，

And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.

虽然在美国历史上没有任何时期或地区像西部拓荒时期那样被荒谬地浪漫主义化了，但神话和事实至少在某一个舞台上共存，也就是存在于个人与渐渐闯入的文明这两者的冲突之中。

He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head----

可以这样说，他脑子里得到的是一个立体的概念，

however well we look after ourselves,

不管我们怎样精心照料我们自己，

The trainer stands in front of the elephant holding a long stick with a sharp metal point.

驯练员手持一根有锋利金属尖头的长棒，站在象前。