The Garden Party -01

The Garden Party

        AND after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels.

after all  [ˈɑ:ftə ɔ:l]

 

毕竟；究竟；归根结底；（解释或说明理由）别忘了

be up [bi: ʌp]

 

 起床

cannot help doing 

v. 不得不做忍不住 禁不住

come out [kʌm aut]

 

 出来；出现；出版；出狱

archangel ['ɑ:keɪndʒl]

 天使长，大天使.

呵，想起英雄无敌里面的大天使了

英雄无敌3中的大天使

　　类型：飞行
　　HP：250
　　攻击：30
　　防御：30
　　伤害：50
　　速度：18
　　类型：飞行
　　费用：5000+3宝石
　　特技：士气+1。
恶魔的死敌。可以复活盟友。
　　作为本作中攻防最强的究极兵种也是公认最强的7级兵，大天使的威力确实只能用恐怖来形容。在本站举行的兵种投票中大天使也是最受欢迎的七级兵种。此外，大天使对大恶魔有50%额外攻击的特性和可以复活一只己方部队的特能也使大天使显的尤其可爱。对于人类族来说，大天使的加盟可说是本作中最幸运的事，能成为本作中最容易上手的种族，人类应该感谢天使的守护才是。最后要说明的是一个大天使一次可复活一百点HP。比如一个大天使可以复活10个弓箭手，但使用复活技能时这回合就无法行动了，所以大天使可以在战斗的最后一个回合使阵亡的部队恢复一些。

关于 archangel 有一个说法：http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100106143321AAT8bIV

In reality, all Archangels are "leaders" like Gabriel and Michael. They are the angels that are like generals in the Army.