羊毛战记 Part 4 The Unraveling 36

　　36,　　Eyes, look your last!,　　Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips,,　　O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissa dateless bargain to engrossing ¹ death!,　　The bodies were everywhere. Covered in dust and dirt, suits worn down by the toxic ² eaters that livedin the winds. Juliette found herself stumbling over more and more of them. And then, they wereconstant, a mass of boulders ³ jumbled ⁴ together. A few were in suits similar to her own, but most worerags that had been eaten away into streamers. When the wind blew past her boots and across thebodies, strips of clothing waved like kelp in the down deep’s fish farms. Unable to pick her wayaround them all, she found herself stepping over the remains ⁵, working her way closer and closer tothe sensor ⁶ tower, the bodies easily in the hundreds, possibly the thousands.,　　These weren’t people from her silo, she realized. However obvious, the sensation was startling.,　　She made her way through dead bodies thick as crumbling ⁸ rock, the forms becomingindistinguishable from one another. They were piled high in places, and she had to choose her pathcarefully. As she neared the ramp ⁹ leading down to this other silo, she found herself needing to stepon a body or two in order to pass. It looked as though they’d been trying to get away and hadscampered over one another, creating their own small hills in a mad attempt to reach the real ones.,　　But then, when she reached the ramp leading down, she saw the crush of bodies at the steel airlockdoor and realized they had been trying to get back in.,　　Her own imminent ¹⁰ death loomed ¹¹ large—a constant awareness ¹², a new sense worn on her skin andfelt keenly in every pore. She would soon join these bodies, and somehow she was not afraid. Shehad passed through that fear on the crest ¹³ of the hill and was now in new lands, seeing new things, aterrible gift for which she had to be grateful. Curiosity drove her forward, or maybe it was thementality of this frozen crowd, all in scrambling ¹⁴ repose ¹⁵, bodies swimming over each other andreaching toward the doors below.,　　She swam among them. Waded ¹⁶, where she had to. She stepped through broken and hollow bodies,kicked aside bones and tattered ¹⁷ remains, and fought her way to the partly cracked doors. There was afigure there frozen between its iron teeth, one arm in, one out, a scream trapped on a gray andwithered face, two eye sockets ¹⁸ empty and staring.,　　Juliette was one of them, one of these others. She was dead, or nearly so. But while they werefrozen in motion, she was still pushing ahead. Shown the way. She tugged ¹⁹ the body out of the gap,her breathing loud in her helmet, her exhalations misting on the screen before her nose. Half the bodypulled free—the other half collapsed ²⁰ inside the door. A mist of powdered flesh drifted down inbetween.,It might soon have ripened into that engrossing feeling. 很快便会发展成那种压倒一切的感情的 。 来自辞典例句,The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中
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