1. The venues near Whistler appear as patchworks of green forest interrupted by long, thin trails of snowy white. 奥运村以北，惠斯勒村附近的比赛场馆交错的分布在被细长雪白的积雪地带包围的绿色的森林中，仿佛一幅拼贴画。
2. Cellphone companies, as well as television and radio broadcasters, use patchworks of towers to transmit their signals. 无线通讯公司以及电视和广播公司都通过一系列发射塔来传输自己的通讯、节目信号。
3. Channels through the Canadian Arctic archipelago that were choked with ice at this time of year two decades ago are now expanses of open water or vast patchworks of tiny islands of melting ice. 两年前通往加拿大北极群岛的海峡的道上满是冰层，而现在已是一片无冰水域或者只是点缀着正在融化的浮冰。
