It seemed like a great conspiracy of things animate and inanimate; they all went downward, fleetly and gaily downward, and only he, it seemed, remained behind, like a stock upon the wayside.

• 像是商量好了似的，无论是有生命的东西还是无生命的东西，都高高兴兴地、快速地往下走，只有他像路边的木头那样给留在后面了。