" And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness" ?

“那废墟有什么权利让发芽的木槿用新鲜来掩盖它的腐烂”？

The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.

蜜蜂在长长的未割过的草丛中艰难前行，或者单调地坚持绕着零散的木槿满是灰尘的镀金角盘旋， 发出闷闷不乐的嗡嗡声， 似乎让寂静更加压抑。