On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor.

• 注意英汉时间状语顺序的不同，英语中时间状语之间的排列一般都是从小到大，而汉语中一般都是从大到小。