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Below the apple orchard, at the end of a path, was the dump
在蘋果園下面的那條小路的盡頭就是那個垃圾場。
where Mr. Zuckerman threw all sorts of trash and stuff that nobody wanted any more.
朱克曼先生把所有垃圾和不要的東西都扔在那里。
Here, in a small clearing hidden by young alders and wild raspberry bushes,
就在這兒，在小榿木和野懸鉤子叢遮住的一小塊空地上，
was an astonishing pile of old bottles
是好大好大一堆舊瓶子、
and empty tin cans
空罐子、
and dirty rags
臟布頭、
and bits of metal
碎鐵片、
and broken bottles
破瓶子、
and broken hinges
破鉸鏈、
and broken springs
破彈簧、
and dead batteries
廢電池、
and last month's magazines
上個月的過期雜志、
and old discarded dishmops
扔掉的刷碗碟小抹布、
and tattered overalls
破套靴、
and rusty spikes
銹釘子、
and leaky pails
漏水的桶子、
and forgotten stoppers
給忘掉的塞子、
and useless junk of all kinds,
各種各樣沒用的垃圾，
including a wrong-size crank for a broken ice-cream freezer.
包括破冰淇淋桶尺寸不對的曲柄。
Templeton knew the dump and liked it.
這垃圾場坦普爾頓最熟悉最喜歡。
There were good hiding places there
那里有可以躲藏的好地方
- excellent cover for a rat.
——對老鼠來說是極好的藏身處。
And there was usually a tin can with food still clinging to the inside.
那里總是有里面還粘著點食物的罐子。
