Before I left Shanghai for a journey I put it into a large enough vase to make sure the water would not dry up.Narcissus lives on water, anyway.I was away for a month.

• 在我离开上海去外地出差之前，我把水仙花放进一个大花瓶里，而在这个大花瓶里我放了足够多的水以确保它在我离开的一个月之内不会干枯。