The songs guided his mother all the way from her Antarctic feeding grounds four thousand miles away, to the warm waters of this South Pacific island.

这些歌声始终指引着它的母亲从四千里远的南极就食区，到这片温暖的南太平洋岛海域。

Wang was familiar with old intellectuals like her: The long years had ground away all the hardness and fierceness in their personalities, until all that was left was a gentleness like that of water.

王对她这样的老知识分子并不陌生：漫长的岁月磨去了他们性格中的刚硬和凶猛，只剩下温柔如水。