It was a dark summer night, shot through with infrequent shimmers of lightning silently firing a cloud lying low in the westportending a storm.

• 异乎寻常的闪电屡屡划破漆黑的夏夜，然而这一切却悄无声息，只是点亮了西方的低云，看来一场暴风雨即将来临。