He locked up the house and went out into the green patch which merged in heather further on.

他把房门锁上，走向那块绿草地，再往前，那草地就混入到石南丛中去了。

On this mountainside, above the Kennecott Glacier in 1900, two sharp-eyed prospectors spied an unusually green patch of grass.

1900 年，在肯尼科特冰川上方的这个山腰上，两名目光敏锐的勘探者发现了一片异常绿色的草丛。

Unless you have looked at a world of snow as long as Edmund had been looking at it, you will hardly be able to imagine what a relief those green patches were after the endless white.

除非你也像爱德蒙那样长时间看着一片冰雪世界，否则很难想像看了无穷无尽的白雪之后，看到那一片片绿地，心情有多么欣慰。