【例21】 A thief is a thief.【譯文】賊性難改。【例22】 There was no snow, the leaves were gone, the
【例22】 There was no snow, the leaves were gone, the grass was dead.
【譯文】 天未下雪，但葉落草枯。
【例23】Human affairs are all subject to changes and disasters.
【譯文】人世間，事不由己，變遷災禍，難以逆料。
【例24】It was a day as fresh as grass growing up and clouds going over and butterflies coming down can make it. It was a day compounded from silences of bee and flower and ocean and land, which were not silences at all, but motions, stirs, flutters, risings, fallings, each in its own time and matchless rhythm.
【譯文】 綠草萋萋，白雲冉冉，彩蝶翩翩，這日子是如此清新; 蜜蜂無言，春花不語，海波聲歇，大地音寂，這日子是如此安靜。然而 並非安靜，因爲萬物各以其獨特的節奏，或動，或搖，或震，或起，或伏。
