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.

们在小山上来回穿梭， 山上是整齐稻田， 舒适地依在竹林中农舍。们穿过破烂不堪村庄和人口城市， 城墙就像弥撒书中城市。