1. The costume served as a stand-in for herself. a second skin never totally assimilated to the person hidden under it but so integral to her that even when it was taken off, it retained something of the wearer's being.

难句类型：复杂修饰

难词注解：stand-in n.替身，代表，作替身assimilate vt.吸收，消化，使同化

参考译文：盛装对她而言是另一个自己，第二层皮肤;虽然没有完全融入隐藏在这之下的人，却与她浑然一体。即使华服隐去，它依然体现了穿着者的风格。

2. Toward the end of the afternoon, we followed what seemed to be a large movement of chimpanzees into one great open room in the forest, relatively clear except for columns of nut trees.

难句类型：复杂修饰

难词注解：column n. 列,专栏

参考译文：临近傍晚，我们沿着貌似一大群猩猩的活动踪迹进入到森林当中空旷的地带，那里除了几列果树以外，什么都没有。