Dāng wǒ hái zhǐyǒu liù suì de shíhou, zài yī běn miáoxiě yuánshǐ sēnlín de míng jiào
“zhēnshí de gùshì” de shū zhōng, kàn dàole yī fù jīngcǎi de chāhuà, huà
de shì yītiáo mǎngshé zhèngzài tūnshí yī zhǐ dà yěshòu.
Once, when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.