In contrast to the soft trill of the field cricket — "the bard of the grass, " one poet calls them — cicadas and katydids produce the kind of deafening hiss that can drown out conversation.
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突然,一个闪电击中了田边的一棵楝树,顿时满眼刺眼的光亮,炸裂声似乎要侵入他们脚下的地板。
A bolt struck a tall chinaberry tree at the edge of the field. It filled all visible space with a blinding glare and the crash seemed to invade the very boards they stood upon.