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Clint raced after Andres. "Come on, Jose! he commanded. "We've got to find those goats!"
克林特緊跟著安德烈斯狂奔而去，他指揮道，“加油，約瑟！我們一定得找到那些羊！”
Up, up he rode into the storm, the wind furiously lashing boy and pony. Night came on, black night.
一路向上，他向暴風雨騎行而去，風猛烈地抽打著這個男孩和小馬。夜幕降臨，一片漆黑。
And still the three searchers combed the slopes, Clint far in the lead.
但是三個搜尋者仍在山坡上搜尋丟失的山羊，克林特在行進中遙遙領先。
Higher, higher! At last, oh joy! He spied a line of huddled white at the foot of an overhanging cliff.
再往高處一點!再高一點！最后，他發現一排白色的山羊蜷縮在一處懸崖腳下。哦，太好了!
Closer approach brought to sight other shivering creatures here and there,
更近的距離讓他們看到了各處正在發抖的其他生物，
in twos and threes, under leaky clumps of oak brush, bleating piteously as he came upon them.
這些動物三三兩兩地躲在在一簇簇的橡木叢下，當他走到這些動物跟前時，它們發出了凄慘的叫聲。
Having found the lost animals, his next problem was what to do with them.
找到丟失的動物后，克林特的下一個問題是如何處理它們。
"We can't drive them to the pens," he told his men. "But they ought to be able to reach the cedar brake down in the flat.
“我們不能把他們趕到圍欄里去，”他對伙伴說。“但是他們應該能夠到達平地上的雪松那里。
They can't hold out here much longer. Come on. The sooner we get them started the better."
他們在這里撐不了多久了。來吧。我們越早開始越好。”
But saying and doing are two different matters; for frightened, half-chilled goats cannot be driven.
但說和做是兩碼事；因為不能驅趕受了驚嚇的和感到很冷的山羊。
It proved an allnight job .to drive them from under the flimsy bushes a few at a time.
事實證明，這是一項通宵工作，一次只能從脆弱的灌木叢中趕走幾只山羊。
By dragging them out, giving them a pull and a forward shove, by goading them on,
通過把它們拖出來，拉它們一把，向前推它們一把，驅趕他們的方式，
Clint and the herders kept the goats moving down the slippery rocks toward the shelter of the great cedars.
克林特和牧人沿著光滑的巖石，趕著山羊往大雪松的庇護處跑去。
Then the rescuers would scramble back after fresh relays, even carrying the fallen animals in their arms.
然后救援人員會在接力賽結束后匆忙返回，甚至還抱著跌倒的動物。
