查询词典 doorsteps

"The chief impression China gives a visiting stranger is that of millions of people everywhere - not scores of them on the street at any time, but thousands, pressing against you from doorsteps, swarming from boats, climbing in and out of rickshas, good-naturedly bumping into you with their basckets hung at each end of a long pole."

作者名叫Vaughan White，书的出版时间是1946年。书中描述的这种拥挤场面，除了现在几乎没有了黄包车和少见肩挑两个大箩筐的农民外（老家卖菜的个体农户似乎仍然延续这种运输方式），其实没有什么不同。&人，到处都是人&。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。