1. She greeted the dawn of each new day with the brightness of the sun itself and found joy in the smallest of things: a dove perched on her birdfeeder, the fresh morning dew, the sweet scent of jasmine2 in her garden.
玛丽亚以欢快的心情迎接每一天的到来，她善于从生活中最细微的事情中寻得欢乐：从栖息在食糟上的鸽子、清新的晨露、到花园里茉莉花的芳香。
2. Watching it work, I intuitively knew that birdfeeder fell the moment I opened the door!
看着事情发生的整个过程，我直觉地认为鸟笼是在我开门的那一刻掉的。