The former healthy garden was now a straggling memory of itself, and the vines and flower-beds that formerly ornamented the windows and dooryard had now become choking thickets.

• 过去郁郁葱葱的花园如今只留下片段的回忆，过去点缀窗户门庭的藤蔓花草如今变成了一丛荆棘。