And it wasn’t long before the drawings moved from stationary objects like water tanks to railcars.

不久之后，图纸就从水箱等固定物体转移到轨道车上。

The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.

屋子里唯一完全静止的东西是一张庞大的长沙发椅，上面有两个年轻的女人，活像浮在一个停泊在地面的大气球上。