Snow
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Snow is so much more than a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds, but complicates and blesses our lives in a number of ways, giving rise to both frustration and romance.
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- 琴詩酒友皆抛我 雪月花時最憶君
- Translation: Friends on pipa, poetry and drinking all of them casted me. When I see the snow, the moon or blossoms, I long for you deeply.
- Bai Juyi (772 - 846),「寄殷律協」
- ...the wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest, and sometimes the place was Pooh's nose and sometimes it wasn't and in a little while Piglet was wearing a white muffler round his neck and feeling more snowy behind the ears than he had ever felt before.
- 国境のトンネルを越えると雪国であった。夜の底が白くなった。
- The train came out of the long border tunnel — and there was the snow country. The night had turned white.
- Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country (1948), translated by Edward Seidensticker
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- A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
