填空题 Translation．(辽宁大学2007研，考试科目：英语专业基础)Sometimes Laura and I lean over the taffrail, and that is happiness. It may be by daylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies, or with no ripples at all but only the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship has disturbed it. Or it may be at night, when the sky surely seems blacker than ever at home and the stars more golden. I recall a phrase from the diary of a half-literate soldier, " The stars seemed little cuts in the black cover, through which a bright beyond was seen. " Sometimes these untaught scribblers have a way of putting things.