Looking day by day at the ever-dryer pond and the ever-closer factories, I knew that the pond's days were numbered--just like the 15 ponds within a square kilometer which had already been filled in.
看著它日漸乾竭的池水，以及逼近的工廠，我知道它已來日無多，就正如它方圓一公里以內已經被填平的十五個沼塘一樣。