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The end of a terrible killer
可怕殺手的終結
Now we had been warned not to follow a wounded tiger, but to wait a few hours and then track him.
我們被警告不要跟蹤一只受傷的老虎，要等待幾小時再跟蹤。
It was good advice, but this was a case not for advice but for action.
這是好主意，但現在需要行動而不是主意。
It was darkening each instant, and there was no time to waste.
天逐漸變黑，我們沒時間了。
So down we went through that long grass, step by step, watching each side for there might be a tigress anywhere.
我們沿著長長的草行走，一步一步，觀察每一邊尋找雌老虎。
We came to the buffalo and followed the flattened grass trail leading back into the jungle.
我們來到水牛的位置，沿著壓平的草坪進入森林。
It was dim in there, but there was light enough to see. The tiger was lying stretched out,
這里光線很暗，但足可以看見，老虎伸著身子躺在那里，
about fifty yards from the buffalo. As we came up, he roared with fury, dying as he was.
距離水牛50碼的地方，當我們走進它時，雖然它已奄奄一息，但還是低聲怒吼。
Every night of his life he had fed on some defenseless creature, and now a sudden,
它每晚都會食用一些毫無反抗能力的動物，如今一次猛烈的，
sharp blow had struck him down. He had been terrible in life, and he was terrible in death.
快速的襲擊擊倒了它，活著讓人畏懼，死時也同樣如此。
With guns ready, we stood watching that last moment of his life,
我們舉著槍，站在那里看著它生命的最后時刻，
keeping ourselves on guard for the possible tigress.
自己保持警戒，以防其它雌老虎。
The native tracker had heard the shooting from the top of the ravine where he had come out to wait for us,
當地的追蹤者聽到山澗上方有槍聲，他早已在那里等著我們，
and now he and his men came stealing in to us, the tracker with his own gun alert, for he, too, feared a tigress.
如今，他和他的同伴尾隨我們而來，追蹤者拿著槍，他也害怕這只雌老虎。
When they were quite sure the tiger was dead,
當他們確定它真的死了時，
they all took hold of that great barrel of a body and staggered with it into the open.
他們抬起重重的尸體，搖搖晃晃地走進空地。
It was all the eight men could do to carry it.
所有八個人一起抬。
He was a huge beast, big and fat, with a gorgeous skin. One shoulder, the left, was smashed from Herbert's bullet.
它是個巨大的野獸，又大又肥，靚麗的皮毛，左邊的肩膀被哈波特的子彈擊碎。
But my shot had gone to its mark, straight through the black stripe into the backbone.
我的子彈進入了它的身體，從黑色條紋進入了脊椎骨。
That tiger was a dead tiger the instant he fell,
老虎剛一倒地就死了，
yet such was his dying strength that he had pushed himself fifty yards downhill into the jungle.
但它用最后的力氣下山進入森林，并走了50碼。
