Other figures stood out in a line trailing away from the ridge.

其他身影在山脊上排成一排。

He stooped above his dead conqueror and found, embedded in its decaying flesh, the elk-bone spear of his forefathers, and, trailing away at the water's rim, was a long, flexible, cedar-fibre rope.

他弯下腰​​，在他死去的征服者上方发现，嵌在他腐烂的肉中的是他祖先的麋鹿骨长矛，在水边拖着一根长而柔软的雪松纤维绳索。

Paul looked down, saw the dust-defined pillar of hot wind that had disgorged them, saw the dying storm trailing away like a dry river into the desert-moon-gray motion growing smaller and smaller below as they rode the updraft.

保罗低头看去，看到了吐出他们的热风的尘埃柱，看到垂死的风暴像一条干涸的河流拖入沙漠月灰色的运动中，随着他们乘着上升气流在下面变得越来越小。