She took pleasure in remarking that, face to face with Walter's tallness, the newcomer looked nearly short.

她高兴地评论说， 面对沃尔特的高个子， 新来的人看起来几乎很矮。

He came toward Wilson, his tallness all seeming a naked reproach, and Wilson looked at him and said: " Want to take pictures? "

他向威尔逊走去，他的高个儿好象对他也是一种赤裸裸的谴责，威尔逊望着他，说：“要照相吗？”

Instead of asking whether someone's upbringing might influence their height, many scholars at the time decided tallness was a physical mark of " superior" humans.

当时许多学者并没有问一个人的成长经历是否会影响他们的身高，而是认为身高是“优秀”人类的身体标志。

But there was no persuading tallness out of heat-addled air and that horizon—no bloom or gently shaken thing to mark the passage of a breeze … only dunes and that distant cliff beneath a sky of burnished silver-blue.

但是，在炎热的空气和地平线上，没有令人信服的高处——没有花朵或轻轻摇晃的东西来标记微风的经过… … 只有沙丘和遥远的悬崖，在闪亮的银蓝色天空下。