It does happen that bundles of them are carried in and sold on the streets, but if they are not as thin as the limbs of a beggar they pucker up your mouth like an unripe persimmon so that it is impossible to enjoy them.

• 至于挑着担子在街上叫卖的，也并不是没有，但不是瘦得象乞丐的臂腿，便涩得象未熟的柿子，实在无从欣羡。