Dragonflies and swallows and nighthawks seine the air where the minute winged creatures flit out their minute life spans.

蜻蜓、燕子和夜鹰在天空中像围网似地捕食，而极小的有翼动物在空中轻快地飞来飞去，顷刻间其想暂的生命便结束了。

I was keeping my family in a series of garrets which overlooked not the Seine but some of Bangor's less appetizing streets, the ones where the police cruisers always seemed to show up at two o' clock on Saturday morning.

我把家安在一个接一个的阁楼间里，房间俯瞰的并非塞纳河而是班戈那些不大可爱的街道，星期六凌晨两点钟似乎总是有巡警的车子出现在那里。