爬回上面

到了底部，只能转过身再爬上去。往上爬比往下走慢得多，也比她想的更累。路上她停了两次。两次她都假装自己是停下来看风景。

At the bottom there is nothing to do but turn around and climb back up. Going up is much slower than going down, and it is harder than she expected. She stops twice on the way. Both times she pretends that she is stopping to look at the view.

在下面一级潮湿的台阶上，有一只帽贝。它待在石头上的一个小坑里。这个小坑正好是它壳的形状。这只帽贝很多年来都回到同一个地方，慢慢地在那里磨出了一个座位。它晚上出去吃东西，每天早上又找到路回家。

On one of the wet lower steps there is a limpet. It is sitting in a small dip in the stone. The dip has exactly the shape of its shell. The limpet has come back to that same place for years, and slowly made a seat there. It goes out at night to eat. Every morning it finds its way home again.

到了顶上，她能看到海里的那些岛。它们完全不一样。这道悬崖是浅色的石灰岩，到处是洞。那些岛是粉红色的花岗岩，一块块又大又光滑的圆石头堆在一起。

From the top she can see the islands out in the water. They are completely different. This cliff is pale limestone, full of holes and caves. Those islands are pink granite, big smooth round rocks piled on top of each other.

波莉坐在老城墙上，最后一次看着岩石里的那道槽。将近两百级台阶，用手凿成，沿着悬崖一直往下，通向一杯凉水。然后她沿着海岸向北飞去。

Polly sits on the old wall and looks down the cut in the rock one last time. Almost two hundred steps, made by hand, going down a cliff to a cup of cold water. Then she flies north along the coast.