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Making sure that Madam Pomfrey was nowhere near, he pointed this out to Ron.
哈利確信龐弗雷夫人不在旁邊，就把那張紙指給羅恩看。
"Try and get it out," Ron whispered, shifting his chair so that he blocked Harry from Madam Pomfrey's view.
“把它取出來。”羅恩小聲說，一邊把椅子挪了一下，擋住龐弗雷夫人的視線，使她看不見哈利。
It was no easy task. Hermione's hand was clamped so tightly around the paper that Harry was sure he was going to tear it. While Ron kept watch he tugged and twisted, and at last, after several tense minutes, the paper came free.
哈利費了好大的工夫。赫敏把紙頭攥得太緊了，哈利覺得自己肯定會把它扯破了。就這樣，羅恩在旁邊放哨，哈利又掰又扭，經過幾分鐘緊張的努力，總算把那張紙弄了出來。
It was a page torn from a very old library book. Harry smoothed it out eagerly and Ron leaned close to read it, too.
這是從一本很舊的圖書館的藏書上撕下來的一頁紙。哈利迫不及待地把它展開，羅恩也湊上來，兩人一起讀道：
Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad. Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it.
在我們國家，游蕩著許多可怕的野獸和怪物，其中最離奇、最具有殺傷力的莫過于蛇怪，又被稱為蛇王。這種蛇的體積可以變得十分巨大，通常能活好幾百年，它是從一只公雞蛋里、由一只癩蛤蟆孵出的。它殺人的方式十分驚人，除了它致命的毒牙外，蛇怪的瞪視也能致人死亡，任何人只要被它的目光盯住，就會立刻喪命。蜘蛛看到蛇怪就會逃跑，因為蛇怪是蜘蛛的死敵，而蛇怪只有聽見公雞的叫聲才會倉皇逃命，因為公雞的叫聲對它來說也是致命的。
