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But there was much more than that.
但遠不止這些。
There was, for example, the little thaw which every day of sunlight brought, gradually uncovering roofs to break the snowy stretches of Little America.
例如，每天陽光帶來的一點融化，逐漸露出了屋頂，打破了小亞美利加的白雪皚皚。
Now a man could get out of the houses to stretch his legs, for the storms, or at least the most terrible storms, were past, and one dared to walk out in the open.
現在，人可以走出屋子伸展胳膊，因為暴風雪過去了，至少最糟糕的暴風雪已經過去了，人已經敢走到戶外去了。
There was work;
接下來是工作；
and work, after the long days of idleness, was highly welcome to Byrd’s men.
在漫長的無所事事后，伯德的手下很希望投入工作。
The dogs were mad with delight at being free from their winter quarters.
狗兒們從冬天的窩里出來，高興的發狂。
They yelped and tugged joyfully as they were harnessed again to the sleds.
它們再次套上雪橇時，高興地又笑又跳。
The photographers brought out their cameras, and when nothing better offered, took pictures of the penguins waddling along, upright, like dignified old gentlemen;
攝影師們拿出了照相機，沒有更好的素材時，就拍些搖搖擺擺走著的頗具老紳士范的企鵝；
or of the killer-whales which began to push their long, slender snouts through the melting ice of the bay;
或是拍些虎鯨，它們長長的鼻子劃過海灣融化的冰；
or of a seal spinning in a frenzy with his mouth full of a half-swallowed fish that would neither go in nor out;
或是拍瘋狂旋轉的海豹，嘴里叼著吞了一般的魚，既不完全吞進去，也不吐出來；
or of the airplane hangars and their machine shops slowly coming out from under their coverings of snow.
或是拍飛機庫和機庫慢慢地從積雪的覆蓋下露出來。
Little America had become a whirlpool of activity!
小亞美利加變成了一個活動的漩渦。
