A gasp escaped all those present in one voice as the paper broke into bits like leaves torn off twigs while the wooden roller crumbled into scraps like ridges in the fields sinking asunder.

• 观者都不禁发出同一个音调，纸，碎裂着，像叶子离开枝桠，木屑，洒脱脱，像块块沉沦的田畦。