On the iron-grey floodplain were a number of wheat fields as square as chessboards. A string of patterned headcloths bobbed among the row.
铁灰色的河滩上也有些棋盘般方正的绿麦地，一溜蹲成并排的一串花头巾在麦浪上蠕动。
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FOR as long as anyone can recall, chess enthusiasts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have played on large streetside chessboards in the shadows of the stately buildings of Harvard Yard.
With his followers he burned “shameful” items (eg, paintings, wigs, harps and chessboards) on the Bonfire of the Vanities in the 1490s, before he was ex-communicated, hanged and incinerated himself.