Every empty, shell-pitted house they had passed that day, every gaunt chimney standing sentinel over smoke-blackened ruins, had frightened her more.

• 那天他们经过的每一幢弹痕累累、空无人烟的房子，每一个像哨兵似的站在火后废墟上的干瘦的烟囱，都使她愈来愈害怕了。