Occasionally she came to a spot where independent worlds of ephemerons were passing their time in mad carousal, some in the air, some on the hot ground and vegetation, some in the tepid and stringy water of a nearly dried pool.

有时在她经过的地方，无数蜉蝣正在自成一体的世界里狂飞乱舞，度过它们的时光，有些在空中，有些在热烘烘的地上和草丛中，有些在一个几近干涸的水塘的温热粘稠的水中。