羊毛战记 Part 4 The Unraveling 34

　　34,　　Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,　　that sees into the bottom of my grief?,　　O sweet my mother, cast me not away!,　　The heavy steel doors of the silo parted, and a great cloud of argon billowed out with an angry hiss ¹.,　　The cloud seemed to materialize from nowhere, the compressed gas blossoming into a whipped frothas it met the warmer, less dense ² air beyond.,　　She pulled her other boot through—and she suddenly found herself outside.,　　Outside.,　　There was nothing above her helmeted head but clouds, sky, and the unseen stars.,　　She lumbered ⁴ forward, emerging through the fog of hissing ⁵ argon to find herself on an upward-sloping ramp ⁶, the corners by the walls caked high with wind-trapped dirt. It was easy to forget thatthe top floor of the silo was belowground. The view from her old office and the cafeteria created anillusion of standing ⁷ on the surface of the earth, head up in the wild air, but that was because thesensors were located there.,　　Juliette looked down at the numbers on her chest and remembered what she was supposed to bedoing. She trudged ⁹ up the ramp, head down, focusing on her boots. She wasn’t sure how she evenmoved, if it was the numbness ¹⁰ one succumbed ¹¹ to in the face of execution—or if it was just automatedself-preservation, simply a move away from the coming inferno ¹² in the airlock, her body delaying theinevitable because it couldn’t think or plan beyond the next fistful of seconds.,Don't hiss at the speaker.不要嘘演讲人。,The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里 。