Peachtree Creek was only five miles away! What was the General thinking about?

打一阵，退一程！桃树沟离城不过五英里！将军心里究竟打的什么主意呢？

They dug in hastily in shallow pits to the north of the town in the valley of Peachtree Creek.

他们急急忙忙在城市北面桃树沟岸边掘了浅浅的散兵壕，据以自守，可这时亚特兰大已经陷入惊恐万状之中了。

This year, officials in Atlanta, Georgia, are closing roads in the southern city for the traditional AJC Peachtree Road Race.

今年，佐治亚州亚特兰大市的官员正在封闭这座南部城市的道路，以举办传统的亚特兰大宪法报桃树公路跑。

She wouldn't have to suffer the embarrassment of seeing him cut openly when she walked down Peachtree Street with him.

那样，她同他在桃树街散步时就用不着因人们公然不理睬他而觉得尴尬了。

But she was hopeful that once on Peachtree Street, she might meet someone she knew who would give them a ride.

但他仍然满怀希望，觉得只要到了桃树街，她就会遇到熟人让她们搭车。

Through the long warm days she watched her red stone and gray shingle house rise grandly, to tower above any other house on Peachtree Street.

天气渐渐温暖了，她一天天看着她那红石头灰木瓦板的住宅不断增高，显得非常壮观，比桃树街上任何其他住宅都要显眼。

There's a man named Johnson who has one, way out Peachtree road, and he's anxious to sell it.

一个名叫约翰逊的人有这么个厂子，在桃树街那头，他急于要卖掉它。

Her breath came more easily now and she sat with her hand pressed to her side and looked up Peachtree Street.

那边山顶上就是她自己的家了。

Time and again, he came riding up to her buggy when she was passing through lonely stretches of Peachtree road and Decatur road where the mills lay.

当她赶车经过桃树街和迪凯特街那段AE？AE？的路到木厂去时，他屡次骑马追上她。

Everybody was riding out Peachtree road to gather greenery and have a picnic and melon cutting.

人人都离开桃树街去采集青枝绿叶，举行野宴和吃西瓜去了。思嘉郁郁不乐地想。

She picked her way rapidly through the wounded and back to Peachtree Street.

她急忙从伤兵中间穿过去往回走，朝桃树街赶去。

But this Peachtree Street she was looking upon was so denuded of landmarks it was as unfamiliar as if she had never seen it before.

可是她现在看到的这条桃树街连一个旧的标志也没有了，它显得如此陌生，仿佛她从没见过似的。

Beyond it, Peachtree road narrowed and twisted under great trees out of sight into thick quiet woods.

再过去便是桃树街，它越来越窄地在大树底下蜿蜒向前，渐渐消失在寂静的密林之中。

Men on horseback dashed out of side streets pell-mell down Peachtree toward Hood's headquarters.

骑马的男人们乱糟糟地从两旁小巷里奔上桃树街，向胡德将军的司令部驰去。

As they walked along the narrow sidewalk toward Peachtree, Scarlett was dismayed and sorrowful, for Atlanta looked so devastated and different from what she remembered.

她们沿着狭窄的人行道向桃树街走去，思嘉一路上都感到惊恐和悲伤，因为亚特兰大已经变得如此荒凉，跟她记忆中的情景大不一样了。

Peachtree Creek was crimson, so they said, after the Yankees crossed it.

桃树沟在北方佬渡过以后，像人们说的，已经是一片深红。

He assaulted the Yankees fiercely at Peachtree Creek, hurling his men from their rifle pits against the blue lines where Sherman's men outnumbered him more than two to one.

他在桃树沟对北方佬发起了猛烈的攻击，命令自己的部队从战壕里冲出，向人数超过自己两倍北军冲去。

It was blindingly, glaring hot and as she hurried down Peachtree Street her temples began to throb from the heat.

这是个热得令人眼花的炎炎的酷暑天，她在桃树街上走了不远就觉得太阳**在轰轰地跳了。

And now, Peachtree Creek, Decatur, Ezra Church and Utoy Creek were no longer pleasant names of pleasant places.

而且，桃树沟、迪凯特、埃兹拉教堂和尤它沟也不再是令人愉快的地名了。

They had no realization of what her life had been before she reached her present safe eminence in her mansion on Peachtree Street.

她们对于她发家致富和住进桃树街上这幢大宅以前的生活，可以说一无所知。