Instinctively dropping on my knees, I gripped an angle of the rock, curled up like a young fern frond with my face pressed against my breast, and in this attitude submitted as best I could to my thundering bath.

我本能地跪下，抓住岩石的一个角，蜷缩成一团，像一棵年轻的蕨叶，把脸贴在胸前，并以这种姿态尽我所能地接受我雷鸣般的沐浴。