Run a finger along a dusty shelf and you are drawing a pattern very largely in old skin.

如果你将一个手指从布满灰尘的搁架上划过，那个痕迹在很大程度上是用你死去的皮肤划成的。

She had furled her parasol and sat absently drawing patterns on the gravel.

她收起遮阳伞，心不在焉地坐在砾石地上画着图案。

They must have pondered upon what they had done to one another, and each must have accused himself of drawing this sombre pattern through which they were tracing tragically and obscurely.

他们一定已经深思过他们对彼此做了什么， 每个人都必须指责自己画出了这种阴沉的模式， 他们正在通过这种模式悲惨地、模糊地追踪。