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Chapter 3 Ginger's story
第3章 金兒的故事
What more could I want？ Freedom！
我還想要什么呢？自由！
For the first four years of my life I had a large field where I could gallop around at full speed.with no straps，no bit，and no blinkers．
在我生命的頭4年，我曾擁有那么廣闊的田野，我可以在那兒全速奔馳,沒有韁繩，沒有嚼口，也沒有眼罩。
Now I stood in a stable，night and day，except when I was wanted for work，and sometimes when John took me out，
現在，除了有活干的時候，我得日夜呆在馬廄里，有時約翰帶我出去的時候，
I felt so strong，so full of life，that I wanted to jump or dance．
我覺得自己是那么強壯有力，充滿生機，我按捺不住地想跳躍，想舞蹈。
Calm down，boy！he would say．
靜一點兒，伙計！他會說。
Then，as soon as we were out of the village，he would let me trot fast for a few miles．
我們一出村，他就會讓我撒開了跑上幾里。
Some grooms punished a horse for getting too excited，but not John．He knew how to control me with only the sound of his voice，and I was very fond of him．
有的馬夫會懲罰過度興奮的馬，約翰不。他知道怎么能只用聲音來控制我，我真喜歡他。
Sometimes we did have our freedom in the field for an hour or two．This was on fine Sundays in the summer，
有時在田野里，我們可以盡情享受一兩小時自由。這時往往是在夏天的周日，
because the carriage never went out on Sundays．It was wonderful．The grass was cool and soft to our feet，
因為馬車在周日不外出。那真叫妙不可言。青草踏上去涼爽而柔軟，
and the air was so sweet．And we could gallop or lie down or roll over on our backs，or do what we liked．
連空氣都是甜的。我們可以或飛跑或臥倒或是滾來滾去，隨心所欲。
關于《黑駿馬》就像英國詩人拜倫的詩句所說——你擁有人類全部美德，卻毫無人類的缺陷。這不禁引發我們是思索。
