They stooped in a long curve down into the golden glow, concentrating, cawing, wheeling, like back flakes on a slow vortex, over a tree clump that made a dark boss among the pasture.

• 它们作弧线状俯冲进金色的余辉，围着一块乌黑的树桩盘旋，如同缓慢的旋风卷起黑色薄片。