But in recent decades, that deep spring snow hasn't been there to kill off a portion of the ticks.

但在最近几十年，那里的深春雪并没有杀死一部分蜱虫。

The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.

众水使它生长，深水使它长大。所栽之地有江河围流，汊出的水道延到田野诸树。

Did the love which I received from her, I asked myself, come from the deep spring of her heart, or was it merely like the daily provision of pipe water pumped up by the municipal steam-engine of society?

我问自己，我从她那里得到的爱是来自她内心深处的泉水，还是就像社会市政蒸汽机每天抽出的自来水一样？