I will only say that of late years I have tried to write less picturesquely and more exactly.
这里我只能说,近几年来,我竭力减少生动形象的描写,尽量写得更谨严简练。
加州的群山(上)
These, however, are oftentimes very picturesquely grouped on rocky headlands around the outer rim of the meadows, or with still more striking effect crown some rocky islet.
One felt, too, that her mind was probably full of hazy visions of native handicrafts, prayer-mat weaving, or something picturesquely primitive that she could talk about when she got home.
At the age of seven or eight years it begins to bear cones in whorls on the main axis, and as they never fall off, the trunk is soon picturesquely dotted with them.