A long, curving neck of sand, as smooth and wet as the neck of the sea serpent, ran out into the sea and joined their rock to a line of low, billowing, and glistening sand-hills, which the sinking sea had just bared to the sun.

一条弯曲的长沙颈伸入海中，像海蛇的颈项一般光滑湿润，将他们所在的岩礁与一列低矮、起伏、闪光的沙丘相连；退潮才刚刚让这些沙丘显露在阳光下。