In contrast with today, when wild ducks live on river beds choked with stinking organic chemicals and strewn with styrofoam and other plastics, in written records from the past the ducks suck up red algae, delve beneath green lotus leaves, wash themselves with dew and live among clouds and mists.
相較於今日野鴨露宿於充斥有機惡臭，塑膠、保力龍橫插的河床，過往文字記載的野鴨，卻是吮紅藻、翻碧蓮、刷霧露、棲雲煙。