She looked at me strangely, but measured off fifteen meters of Turkey red calico. Then she touched the counter and called out, Cash!

她奇怪地看着我，但还是量出了15米土耳其红色印花布。然后，她摸了摸柜台，喊了一声：" 现金！"

He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.

又量了一千肘，水便成了河，使我不能趟过，因为水势涨起，成为可洑的水，不可趟的河。