They passed up and down little hills laid out with trim rice-fields and farm-houses nestling cosily in a grove of bamboos; they passed through ragged villages and populous cities walled like the cities in a missal.

他们在小回穿梭， 是整齐稻田， 舒适地依在竹林中农舍。他们穿过破烂不堪和人口稠密城市， 城墙就像弥撒书中城市。