The dressing-table, for instance, was a packing-case in a sprigged muslin petticoat, and the mirror above was very strange; it was as though a little piece of forked lightning was imprisoned in it.

例如，梳妆台是一个包装盒，里面装着细长的平纹细布衬裙，上面的镜子很奇怪；仿佛有一小片分叉的闪电被囚禁在其中。

Dramatic flashes of forked lightning briefly illuminated the sky, and then, as if in afterthought, the heavy drumbeat roll of a deluge hit the roof of our little bungalow, so fierce that at first it drowned out sound.

戏剧性的叉形闪电短暂地照亮了天空， 然后，仿佛在事后想起，洪水的沉重鼓声击中了我们小平房的屋顶， 如此猛烈以至于起初它淹没了声音。