It was the two children who finally routed the nurse by reminding her of a desiccated carcass, blotched with brown, streaked with yellow, scarred by knives.

• 正是这两个孩子迫使护士联想起那个带着棕褐的斑点、灰黄的采纹和刀伤疤痕的干枯躯体。