Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter the years of things unsaid and now unsayable -- admissions, declarations, shames, guilts, fears -- rose around them.

• 就象冬天温泉里升腾的暖流，这么多年来他们未曾言表、现在也无法说出的东西，---承认、公开、耻辱、罪恶以及恐惧----，一刹时涌上心头。