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WASTE LAND: A WILD-LIFE PRESERVE
荒原：野生動(dòng)物保護(hù)區(qū)
Archibald Rutledge
作者：阿奇博爾德·拉特利奇
Once upon a time there were thousands of beautiful birds called passenger pigeons. Now they are gone. Herds of graceful antelope used to roam the prairies of the West. They are disappearing. Mr. Hawkes has told us that the beaver is in danger. In this story Mr. Rutledge tells us how we can help save these wild children of Nature.
從前，有成千上萬的美麗的鳥，叫做旅鴿。現(xiàn)在都消失了。成群優(yōu)雅的羚羊曾經(jīng)在西部的大草原上漫步。而羚羊也正在消失。霍克斯先生告訴我們海貍有危險(xiǎn)。在這個(gè)故事中，拉特里奇先生告訴我們?nèi)绾螏椭冗@些野生的自然兒童。
Mr. Farmer, don’t keep your place too clean. Leave that patch of scrub growing over yonder by the creek; leave that fence row filled with briars. Your best friend of the great bird kingdom, bob-white, can’t live with you if you take away all his cover. Keep most fields clean, if you like, but leave some places untidy for the sake of those who will leave you if you clean away their shelters.
法默先生，不要把你的地方弄得太干凈。把那邊小溪邊的那片灌木叢留下；留下那排長(zhǎng)滿荊棘的籬笆。如果你拿走他所有的掩護(hù)，那么你最好的朋友，大鳥王國(guó)的鮑勃-懷特，不能和你住在一起。你若愿意，可以使大多數(shù)田地潔凈，也可以使一些地方不潔凈，因?yàn)槟闳舫羲麄兊淖√帲麄儽仉x開你。
Wild creatures will take what we leave. They will rejoice to live on our waste lands. There is no place so impossible for the home of man that it cannot be made into a home for wild life. It looks, then, as if in the years to come, man will take all the choice lands for himself. Then he will set aside waste lands for the wild children of the woods and the waters and the air.
野生動(dòng)物會(huì)拿走我們留下的東西。他們將高興地生活在我們的荒地上。對(duì)于人類的家園來說，沒有什么地方是不可能建成野生動(dòng)物的家園的。這樣看來，似乎在未來的歲月里，人類將為自己奪取所有的土地。他必為樹林、水、空氣中的野地設(shè)立界限。
