Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.
1. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun. (Para.1)
Answer: The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was began right here.
2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry. (Para.3)
Answer: The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.
3. From one point of view, their migration was the fruit of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world. (Para.4)
Answer: In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.
Translate the following into Chinese.
1. a single knoll rises out of the plain (Para.1)
Answer:一座孤零零的小山拔地而起
2. popping up like corn to sting the flesh (Para.1)
Answer:像爆米花一样爆裂开, 刺得人痛
3. to lose the sense of proportion (Para.1)
Answer:失去(正常的)比例感
4. positively classified (Para.3)
Answer:明确地归类
5. the object and symbol of their worship (Para.4)
Answer:他们的崇拜物和象征物