Cars roared by on the highway as he carved the figure of a turtle into a basswood log while relating to me the meaning of the 13 plates on its back.
当他边用菩提树原木雕刻海龟,边告诉我这海龟背后13个盘子的意义时,外面是汽车在高速公路上喧腾而过。
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BACK in January, Japanese seismologists warned that the tectonic plates colliding beneath the Pacific Ocean off the North-East coast of Japan were poised to slip catastrophically.