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The Halloween Cat
萬圣節貓咪
"Meow! Meow! Meow!" sang a black cat as she sat on the fence one Halloween. "Meow! Meow! Meow!"
“喵！喵！喵！”，在一個萬圣節，一只黑貓坐在籬笆上唱著“喵！喵！喵！”
A dog growled. The cat jumped down and hid under the porch steps.
一條狗沖它咆哮。貓跳下來，藏在了門廊臺階底下。
She had never had a home or anyone to feed and love her. Tonight she was very hungry. So when everything was quiet, she came out from under the porch.
從來沒有一個家或人來喂它和愛它。今晚它很餓。所以萬物俱靜時，它從門廊下走了出來。
The side door of the house was open just a little, and a light was shining out across the yard. It looked so warm and bright inside that the cat ran up on the porch and right into the house.
房子的側門開了一點兒，透出來的燈光照亮了院子。它看起來是那么的溫暖明亮，以至于貓跑上了門廊，徑直走進房子里。
The black cat had never been in a house before, and everything in the room seemed very strange to her.
黑貓從來沒有進過房子，房間里的一切對它來說都很陌生。
A table was set for a party, and right in the middle of it was a jack-o-lantern. Light was shining from his round eyes and funny nose and wide mouth.
為宴會準備的桌子中央是一盞南瓜燈。光從它圓圓的眼睛、滑稽的鼻子和寬寬的嘴里照出來。
Oh, how frightened the black cat was, until she saw that the jack-o-lantern was smiling at her! "He looks like my good friend the moon," she thought. "He will not hurt me."
噢，黑貓多么害怕啊，直到它看到南瓜燈向自己微笑才不怕了。“它看起來像我的好朋友月亮。”它想，“它不會傷害我。”
So the black cat jumped on the table and rubbed against the jack-o-lantern. He felt nice and warm.
于是，黑貓跳上桌子，摩擦著南瓜燈。它摸起來溫暖美好。
Then she looked all about her, and by each plate she saw a tiny black cat. The tiny black cats looked like mice.
然后它看看四周，在每個盤子里發現了一只小黑貓。這些小黑貓看起來像老鼠。
"Perhaps these things are mice," she thought. "But how still they are!" She reached out and touched one of them with her paw, and the tiny cat fell over. Its head came off, and out rolled some small pieces of candy.
“或許這些東西是老鼠，”它想，“但它們好靜啊！”它伸出爪子去碰一只小貓。小貓跌倒了，腦袋掉了下來，滾出來一小塊糖果。
The black cat was so surprised that she jumped back and bumped against the smiling jack-o-lantern. When she found that she was not hurt, she went on looking for something to eat.
黑貓非常驚訝，它跳了回去，撞到了那盞微笑的南瓜燈。當它發現自己沒有受傷時，繼續找東西吃。
A cup of milk was by each plate. When the black cat saw the milk, she gave a loud "meow." She put her head down into one cup and drank every drop.
每個盤子旁都有一杯牛奶。黑貓看到牛奶時，它“喵”得一聲大叫，頭伸進一個杯子里，把牛奶喝得一滴不剩。
