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'All he did was eat and sleep, Ron, you said it yourself,' said George.
“斑斑不過是一天到晚吃了睡睡了吃罷了，羅恩，這是你自己說的。”喬治說。
'He bit Goyle for us once!' Ron said miserably. 'Remember, Harry?'
“有一次它還替我們咬了高爾！”羅恩凄慘地說，“記得嗎，哈利？”
'Yeah, that's true,' said Harry.
“沒錯，有這回事。”哈利說。
'His finest hour,' said Fred, unable to keep a straight face.
“那是它最輝煌的時刻。”弗雷德說，臉上忍不住要笑。
'Let the scar on Goyle's finger stand as a lasting tribute to his memory.
“讓高爾手指上的疤留著作為對它的永久記憶吧。
Oh, come on, Ron, get yourself down to Hogsmeade and buy a new rat. What's the point of moaning?'
哦，好啦，羅恩，和赫敏和解，再買一只耗子得了。哀嘆有什么用啊？”
In a last-ditch attempt to cheer Ron up, Harry persuaded him to come along to the Gryffindor team's final practice before the Ravenclaw match,
哈利說服羅恩和他一起到場地上去看格蘭芬多隊賽前最后一次訓練，
so that he could have a go on the Firebolt after they'd finished.
以便羅恩在訓練以后可以騎騎火弩箭，以此作為讓羅恩高興起來的最后一招。
This did seem to take Ron's mind off Scabbers for a moment ('Brilliant! Can I try and shoot a few goals on it?')
這好像果然讓羅恩暫時忘記了斑斑（“好主意！我也能試試玩兒一下球嗎？”），
so they set off for the Quidditch pitch together.
所以他們就一起到魁地奇球場上去了。
Madam Hooch, who was still overseeing Gryffindor practices to keep an eye on Harry,
霍琦夫人仍舊在監督格蘭芬多隊的練習，以便照看哈利，
was just as impressed with the Firebolt as everyone else had been.
她也像所有其他人一樣，對火弩箭贊不絕口。
She took it in her hands before take-off and gave them the benefit of her professional opinion.
在訓練開始以前，她把火弩箭拿在手里，而且不惜向大家提供專業性的意見。
'Look at the balance on it! If the Nimbus series has a fault, it's a slight list to the tail-end,
“看看它的平衡性！如果說光輪系列有缺點的話，那就是尾梢部分稍有一點傾斜，
you often find they develop a drag after a few years.
用了幾年以后，你們時常就會發現這種傾斜會發展成為一種障礙。
They've updated the handle, too, a bit slimmer than the Cleansweeps, reminds me of the old Silver Arrows,
他們也改進了柄，比橫掃系列稍稍細一點，這讓我想到了以前的銀箭，
a pity they've stopped making them, I learnt to fly on one, and a very fine old broom it was too ... '
可惜他們不再制造銀箭了，我是乘坐銀箭學會飛行的，那是一種很精巧的老掃帚……”
She continued in this vein for some time, until Wood said,
她繼續說下去，又說了一些時候，直到伍德說：
'Er — Madam Hooch? Is it OK if Harry has the Firebolt back? Only we need to practise ...'
“呃——霍琦夫人，哈利拿回他的火弩箭沒事吧？沒別的，就是我們要訓練了……”
'Oh — right — here you are, then, Potter,' said Madam Hooch. 'I'll sit over here with Weasley ...'
“哦……對……那么，給你，波特，”霍琦夫人說，“我和韋斯萊一起坐在這里……”
