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I am trying to translate this sentence from a fantasy novel, but some of the
grammar eludes me, and I am having trouble distinguishing between what is
literal and metaphorical.

> りょうりょうと風が吹き渡る夕暮れの野を、まるで火が走るように、赤い毛なみを光らせて、一匹の子狐が駆けていた。

Does the first part りょうりょうと風 mean "brightness and wind", or "a wind with (the
quality of) brightness"? I am not quite in tune with this use of と.

Then, how does structure [Topic]をまるで[Subject]が[Verb]ように work? In this case, is
it that the evening plains are like a fire acting in the manner of running?

Lastly, does 赤い毛なみを光らせて mean that the red wave of fur caused the brightness?

My translation was as follows.

> The brightness and the wind blowing across the evening plains, is like like
> eloping flames, caused by the red wave of glittering fur from the galloping
> fox cub.
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grammar translation
りょうりょうと風が吹き渡る夕暮れの野を、まるで火が走るように、赤い毛なみを光らせて、一匹の子狐が駆けていた
This sentence is indeed literary, but grammatically it's very straightforward.
The three phrases, "りょうりょうと風が吹き渡る夕暮れの野を", "まるで火が走るように" and "赤い毛並みを光らせて"
_independently_ modify the intransitive verb, 駆けていた, at the end of the
sentence. The main subject of the sentence is 一匹の子狐.

  * I feel りょうりょう here is not [喨々](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/232863/meaning/m0u/) but [寥々](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/232865/meaning/m0u/), a rare na-adjective which means "forlorn/desolate". と turns a na-adjective into an adverb (i.e., desolate **ly** ) that modifies 吹き渡る. (I don't know if you can say "wind blows desolately" in English, though)
  * を in りょうりょうと風が吹き渡る夕暮れの野 **を** marks the location where the main action of the sentence, 駆ける, takes place. See: [Making sense of transitive usage of 行く and 来る - 「を行く」 and 「を来る」](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3243/5010)
  * まるで火が走るように here means the child fox (not the evening planes) was like fire.
  * 赤い毛なみを光らせて literally means "(while) making its red fur shine".
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