needing to squint for the sunlight

刺眼的余辉迫使她不得不斜视下去
[this is when she first sees San Narciso],

这是她第一次见到圣·纳西索
onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together

巨大辽阔的土地上房屋如褐色沃土上
like awell-tended crop from the dull, brown earth,

长势迅猛的庄稼般拔地而起
and she thought of the time she'd opened a transistor radio

她想起自己曾打开晶体管收音机
to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit.

代替电池第一次看到印刷电路板
The ordered swirl of houses and streets

从高处眺望到
from this high angle sprang at her now with the same unexpected,

整齐划一的房屋和街道像电路板一样
astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.

清晰地令人意外和惊讶
Though she knew even less about radios

尽管她对收音机的了解还不如
than about southern Californians,

她对南方的加利福尼亚人了解得多
there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic

这种模式有一种难以理解的感觉