The ferny vegetation round him, though so abundant, was quite uniform—it was a grove of machine-made foliage, a world of green triangles with saw-edges, and not a single flower.

他周围的蕨草，虽然繁茂，整齐划——这是个好机器制造出来的绿叶，个锯齿边三角形叶片的世界，没有朵花儿。