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After Christmas the thermometer dropped to ten below zero.
圣誕節過后，溫度表顯示溫度降到零下十度。
Cold settled on the world.
天寒地凍。
The pasture was bleak and frozen.
牧場冷得刺骨，樣樣都凍住了。
The cows stayed in the barn all the time now,
現在牛一直待在谷倉里，
except on sunny mornings when they went out and stood in the barnyard in the lee of the straw pile.
只有陽光明媚的早晨，它們才到外面去，站在谷倉院子里麥草堆擋住風的地方。
The sheep stayed near the barn, too, for protection.
羊也待在谷倉附近的背風處。
When they were thirsty they ate snow.
它們渴了就吃雪。
The geese hung around the barnyard the way boys hang around a drug store,
鵝圍著谷倉院子轉，就像男孩圍著雜貨鋪轉一樣，
and Mr. Zuckerman fed them corn and turnips to keep them cheerful.
朱克曼先生給它們喂玉米和蘿卜，讓它們高興。
"Many, many, many thanks!" they always said, when they saw food coming.
“非常，非常，非常感謝！”它們一看到食物來了就這么說。
Templeton moved indoors when winter came.
入冬以后，坦普爾頓一直在戶內活動。
His ratty home under the pig trough was too chilly,
豬食槽底下的那個老鼠洞太冷了，
so he fixed himself a cozy nest in the barn behind the grain bins.
因此它在谷倉里的糧倉后面給自己做了個舒服的窩。
He lined it with bits of dirty newspapers and rags
它在窩里墊上骯臟的報紙碎片和破布片，
and whenever he found a trinket or a keepsake he carried it home and stored it there.
什么時候一找到點小玩意兒或者紀念品，它就把它們拿回家儲存在那里。
He continued to visit Wilbur three times a day, exactly at mealtime,
它一天三次去看威爾伯，準時在吃飯時間，
and Wilbur kept the promise he had made.
威爾伯遵守自己作出的諾言，
Wilbur let the rat eat first.
讓老鼠先吃。
Then, when Templeton couldn't hold another mouthful, Wilbur would eat.
等到坦普爾頓吃得一口也再吃不下去了，威爾伯才吃。
As a result of overeating, Templeton grew bigger and fatter than any rat you ever saw.
吃得過飽的結果就是，坦普爾頓比你見過的任何老鼠都更大更胖。
He was gigantic. He was as big as a young woodchuck.
它大得像只小旱獺。
The old sheep spoke to him about his size one day.
有一天，老羊就它的個子對它說：
"You would live longer," said the old sheep, "if you ate less."
“如果你吃得少一點，你就可以活得長一點。”
"Who wants to live forever?" sneered the rat.
“誰需要長生不老呢？”老鼠譏諷說，
"I am naturally a heavy eater and I get untold satisfaction from the pleasures of the feast."
“我天生是個大食鬼，從大吃大喝的樂趣中得到說不出的滿足感。”
He patted his stomach,
它拍拍肚子，
grinned at the sheep, and crept upstairs to lie down.
對老羊齜著牙齒笑笑，爬到上面糧倉去躺下來。
