2. Still talking, their words tumbling like thistledown on the hot butterflied silence. 他们仍然在说着话，可是在热切而浮想翩翩的寂静中，他们的话语变得像蓟花冠毛一样飘浮不定。
3. It makes mock of your sound senses, and lays them in thistledown like fragile vessels. 它嘲笑你们健全的意识，把它们像脆弱的器皿般置于蓟绒下。
4. To his delight and relief the dentist's touch was, if not quite as light as thistledown, at least sensitive, and certainly far from the brutal assault he had feared. 让他欣慰的是牙医的手脚虽然不能说轻如飞絮，但起码也是小心翼翼的；当然远远不是他起初害怕的那种残忍的动作。
