On the iron-grey floodplain were a number of wheat fields as square as chessboards. A string of patterned headcloths bobbed among the row.

铁灰色的河滩上也有些棋盘般方正的绿麦地，一溜蹲成并排的一串花头巾在麦浪上蠕动。

FOR as long as anyone can recall, chess enthusiasts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have played on large streetside chessboards in the shadows of the stately buildings of Harvard Yard.

很容易回忆起当年哈佛校园里的国际象棋热。 它从马萨诸塞州的剑桥而来，曾经在哈佛雄伟的建筑物投下的阴影里，在巨大的道旁棋盘上，疯狂上演。

With his followers he burned “shameful” items (eg, paintings, wigs, harps and chessboards) on the Bonfire of the Vanities in the 1490s, before he was ex-communicated, hanged and incinerated himself.

和他的追随者一起，萨佛纳罗拉将那些“可耻的”物品（例如绘画，假发，竖琴和棋盘）全部一起在15世纪90年代的虚荣之火中付之一炬。