1.北风如刀,满地冰霜。2.江南近海滨的一条大路上,一队清兵手执刀枪,押着七辆囚车,冲风冒寒,向北而行。
Along a coastal road somewhere south of the Yangtze River , a detachment of soldiers , each of them armed with a halberd , was escorting a line of seven prison carts , trudging northwards in the teeth of a bitter wind .