The rapid flares and extinctions at other points of the compass showed the lightest of fuel—straw, beanstalks, and the usual waste from arable land.

其它方位的篝火，火势来去匆匆，表明用的燃料是最不经烧的——庄稼地里收来的麦秆、豆秸或其它干草。

It sprawled to the four points of the compass; flat; interminable; meaningless.

它蔓延到罗盘的四个点； 平坦的; 没完没了； 无意义的。

Its peak has four faces, aligned to the points of the compass, and from its summit four rivers are said to flow to the four quarters of the world.

它的山峰有四面，正如罗盘的四个指针，峰顶有四条河流，分流到世界的四个角落。

" It's an extraordinary thing about girls that they never know the points of the compass, " said Eustace.

“姑娘们就这点特别，她们根本不识指南针的方位点。”尤斯塔斯说。

Scrubb was quite right in saying that Jill (I don't know about girls in general) didn't think much about points of the compass.

斯克罗布说得不错，他说吉尔(我不了解一般女孩子)不大重视指南针的方位。

Even the bushes are stripped bare, and in spite of dogs and shepherds the sheep scatter to all points of the compass and vanish in dust.

甚至灌木丛也被剥得光秃秃的， 尽管有狗和牧羊人， 羊群还是四处逃窜， 消失在尘土中。

So the ex-mayor traveled across town to all four points of the compass in search of people who had a good command of the problems of noise.

因此，这位前市长穿越城镇，走遍了所有四个地点，寻找能够很好地解决噪音问题的人。

Here, towards this particular point of the compass, Mr. Casaubon had a sensitiveness to match Dorothea's, and an equal quickness to imagine more than the fact.

在这里，对于罗盘的这个特殊点，卡苏朋先生具有与多萝西娅相媲美的敏感度，并且同样敏捷地想像而不是事实。

All the sky, to every point of the compass, became a soft blue and the clouds were white powder, so that in the end it was tenderness that triumphed.

整个天空，到罗盘的每一点， 都变成了柔和的蓝色， 云朵变成了白色的粉末， 所以最后还是温柔占了上风。

Yes, I knew: in the centre of Mrs. Willy P. Goldmark's yellow and gold drawing-room, under a thousand-candle-power chandelier, with reflectors aimed at her from every point of the compass.

是的，我知道：在 Willy P. Goldmark 夫人黄色和金色客厅的中央， 在一盏功率为 1000 烛光的枝形吊灯下， 反射镜从罗盘的每个角度瞄准她。