The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed.

细长的陀螺在热情的激流中拍打着，嗖嗖地向后和向前弯曲和旋转，一圈又一圈，描绘出垂直和水平曲线的难以形容的组合，而我紧紧抓住肌肉，紧紧地支撑着，就像芦苇上的bobolink。