It was as if a child standing in the middle of a cul-de-sac in some suburb screamed at the top of her lungs and people came pouring out every front door.

• 这场面如同一个孩子在某个郊野的胡同里声嘶力竭地大叫时，人们会纷纷涌出家门来看个究竟一样。