He would not leave his picking, he dealt great strokes which shook him violently between the two rocks, like a fly caught between two leaves of a book and in danger of being completely flattened.
Il ne voulait pas lâcher son havage, il donnait de grands coups, qui le secouaient violemment entre les deux roches, ainsi qu'un puceron pris entre deux feuillets d'un livre, sous la menace d'un aplatissement complet.