But just as the bamboo grove and outline of old thatched house were fading from view, the boy would stop himself, arrested by the image of his mother's anxious, shattered visage.
就在即將見不著那烏葉竹園和茅草老屋的輪廓時，小男孩停住腳步，因為腦海裡浮現的儘是母親憔悴憂急的神情。