Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woolen comforters, all be darned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.

• 他们都裹着毛茸茸的值班衫，头上蒙着毛围巾，全都穿得补补衲衲，破破烂烂，胡须上结起冰柱，好像在突然闯进来的一群拉布拉多熊。