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The land was ghostly with the first signs of morning,
清晨第一縷陽光讓大地變得十分詭異。
and through the grayness the giant pines rose darkly like columns in some dim underground vault.
在灰暗中，一棵棵巨松在黑暗中聳立，像是黑暗地下墓穴中的柱子。
The guide circled in and out the trees, and our horses followed closely.
向?qū)г跇渲g繞來繞去，我們的駿馬緊隨其后。
Then we dismounted and stole through the brush on foot till we were on the edge of the ravine, directly above the dead buffalo.
之后我們下馬，徒步穿過灌木叢，來到山澗之間，我們處在死水牛的正上方。
More than halfway down the steep slope was the bush; across which a screen of reeds had been built,
山坡非常陡峭，超一半山坡都是灌木叢，這期間穿插著一排排蘆葦，
and the buffalo was a hundred and fifty feet beyond that, directly in front of the green wall of the jungle.
那頭水牛在其150英尺遠(yuǎn)的地方，就在“森林綠墻”的正前方。
Down the slope we crept, crouching low,
我們彎下腰，在陡坡上慢慢前行，
and being as silent-footed as possible in the attempt to deceive the stealthy beast,
我們輕聲慢步，試圖迷惑潛伏在深處的野獸，
who might be in any bush before us at the moment.
它或許隨時都能出現(xiàn)在前面的灌木叢中。
If he saw us, the hunt was probably finished before it was begun.
如果他看到了我們，狩獵還沒開始或許就結(jié)束了。
We should spend our weary hours there in vain.
那么我們的辛苦就白費了。
We reached the shelter of the blind and cautiously raised the leaves that covered the tiny holes left for peepholes.
我們來到了隱蔽之處，掀開了遮住窺視孔的葉子。
There was a long stretch of tall, waving grass sloping down before us with bushes on each side,
在我們面前還有一長條長長的，上下?lián)]舞的草叢向我們的方向傾斜，兩邊是灌木叢，
then the dark blue that we knew to be the dead buffalo, and beyond, the blotting darkness of the jungle.
深藍(lán)色的東西應(yīng)該是死水牛，遠(yuǎn)處像是被墨汁染過的黑色叢林。
My husband, Herbert, and I took our positions, each with an eye at a peephole, our guns leaning beside us.
我的丈夫哈波特和我站好位置，盯著窺視孔，槍斜放在我們身后。
The tracker squatted on his heels at our side, patient and motionless.
跟蹤人在我們身邊蹲下，很有耐心，一動不動。
It was growing lighter and lighter; the darkness paled as the brightness gained in the east.
天快亮了，黑暗漸漸遠(yuǎn)去，東方的黎明將要降臨。
There were little morning noises, the familiar sounding crow of the wild cock,
清晨沒有一點噪音，還能聽到野公雞熟悉的啼鳴聲，
the cropping of a family of wild pigs on the grassy slope to the right, the bark of a distant deer.
左邊，幾只野豬在長滿草的斜坡上發(fā)出啃咬聲，遠(yuǎn)處傳來鹿的嚎叫聲。
