They are the color of old cypress shingles, with bellies of rich cobalt blue, and there is nothing more impudent unless it is a mocking bird.

它们是古老的柏树带状疱疹的颜色， 腹部呈浓郁的钴蓝色， 没有比这更无礼的了， 除非它是一只反舌鸟。

In the east, the sky was pearly grey and iridescent, like a toy balloon filled with cigarette smoke, and among the shrubs the mocking birds were beginning their first song.

在东方，天空呈珍珠灰色，呈虹彩状，就像一个充满香烟烟雾的玩具气球，在灌木丛中， 嘲笑的鸟儿正在开始它们的第一声歌唱。