Beyond the grey bastions of Fort Adams a long-drawn sunset was splintering up into a thousand fires, and the radiance caught the sail of a catboat as it beat out through the channel between the Lime Rock and the shore.

在亚当斯堡的灰色堡垒之外， 拖长的夕阳分裂成一千道火光，当一艘独桅艇驶过石灰岩和海岸之间的海峡时， 阳光照在了它的帆上。