杏花和梨花还在枝头做出阁的梦时，王世厚父子扛着犁来到了选中的地块。

When apricot flowers and pear blossom on the branches doing marry dream, Wang Shihou and his son carrying plough go to the selected block.

史都华由三个未出阁的姑母抚养长大，成长于俄亥俄的小镇上，在那个年代，像他这种成长背景的男同志总在自我厌恶中否认自己的性向。

Any other gay man of his time, raised by three spinster aunts in small-town Ohio, might well have stayed in self-loathing denial for ever.