The thousand roofs, dense, angular, clinging to each other,composed, nearly all, of the same geometrical element, offered,when viewed from above, the aspect of a crystallization of the same substance.

• 那成千上万的屋顶密密麻麻，有棱有角，粘附紧贴，几乎都是由一几何原理构成的，俯瞰之下，呈现出同一物质的晶体状态。