The air was soft and dead, as if all the world were slowly dying. Grey and clammy and silent, even from the shuffling of the collieries, for the pits were working short time, and today they were stopped altogether. The end of all things!

• 空气是软的,死的,好象世界就要断气了。一切都是灰色的。滑湿、静寂。煤矿场的声音也听不着,因为今天停工了,好象世界之末日到了!