Smoke kept furling out of its nostrils.

一团团的烟从它鼻孔里喷出来。

In a flash it revealed hundreds of boats, steel-dark against lustrous ripples; then it withdrew as if with a furling of vast translucent wings.

刹那间，数百艘小船在闪闪发亮的涟漪映衬下呈现出钢铁般的黑色。然后它像收起巨大的半透明翅膀一样撤退了。