To the left of us there was the long uninterrupted shoal and to the right a high, steep bank heavily overgrown with bushes.

• 我们的左边，躺着那条连绵不断的长沙洲，而我们的右边，是一条高峻陡峭的河岸，上面厚厚地长满了一层野荆丛棘。