In fact, she could endure the hospital with equanimity now because it was a perfect happy hunting ground.
事实上,她现在对医院里的事情已能镇静地应付了,因为那里还是一个很好很愉快的狩猎场呢。
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In America, you can ride to the happy hunting grounds, a term for the afterlife that has been attributed to Native Americans, but was more likely made up by European colonists.
He could see it arching overhead, before it took its long journey to the Happy Hunting Grounds, for the soul of the Thunder-bird was a radiant half-circle of glorious color spanning from peak to peak.
Even the chief, whose feet have so recently wandered to the Happy Hunting Grounds, never heard the name given them until I mentioned it to him one dreamy August day, as together we followed the trail leading to the canyon.
The happy hunting ground was the name given to the concept of the afterlife by several of the Great Plains tribes, including the Oglala Lakota. It is an afterlife conceived of as a paradise in which hunting is plentiful and game unlimited.