With a long bamboo pole in hand, he would look after a large flock of gosling-yellow ducklings moving about on the limpid water of a shallow brook flanked on both sides by green grass.

• 他手里拿着一根长长的竹竿，照看着一群鹅黄色的小鸭子在两边是绿油油的草地的浅浅、清澈的小溪内游来游去。