4.bedraggled guests squelched across the lawns to seek shelter.
全身湿透的客人扑哧扑哧地穿过草坪去避雨。
5.AFTER 18 months of sunny skies and scorching heat, crops are shrivelling, lawns are crisping and lakes are drying up.
经受18个月的艳阳照酷热之苦后,农作物慢慢在枯萎,草坪缓缓在卷曲湖泊也渐渐在干涸。
6.But empty driveways and unmown lawns are the least of suburbia's problems, according to Christopher Leinberger, an urban theorist and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.