The only noise comes from a bulldozer smoothing the coal-mound and the cawing of rooks .

而唯一的噪音则是推土机铲平煤堆的声音与秃顶乌鸦的哀嚎声。

Mud-caked dogs roam empty streets , their barking and the cawing of crows the only sounds .

身上粘满泥土的狗在空荡的街道游荡，他们的吠叫和乌鸦的哑叫是这唯一的声响。

The open desolation at the foot of the walls and their towering height filled him with foreboding as he went , so much so that he even skirted crows scavenging on the rubbish heaps for fear of startling them into inauspicious cawing .

城根的空旷，与城墙的高峻，教他越走越怕。偶尔看见垃圾堆上有几个老鸦，他都想绕着走开，恐怕惊起它们，给他几声不祥的啼叫。