The noise of an air-raid siren, lugubrious and seeming to spring from pain, as if all the misery and indecision in the city had been given voice, cut her off.

• 一阵空袭警报打断了她的话。凄凉的警报声象是由于疼痛而发出的悲号，似乎这个灾难重重，动乱不安的城市也长上了噪门。