And still the daylight kept flooding insensibly out of the east, which was soon to grow incandescent and cast up that red-hot cannon-ball, the rising sun.

日光仍然知从东方涌，很快就变得炽热起来，投射那颗炽热的炮弹，即初升的太阳。

He casually pointed to the east, but then, after a moment's hesitation, he seemed to change his mind and stood up and pointed to the distant northern mountains.

他随意东方， 但随后犹豫了一会儿， 似乎改变了主意，站起身来远处北方的山脉。