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It was drawing toward winter, when one day the two elder brothers had gone out with their usual warning to little Gluck,
馬上進入冬季，一天兩名年長的兄弟出門，并按慣例警告小格拉克，
who was left to turn the roast, that he was to let nobody in and give nothing out. Gluck sat down quite close to the fire,
他被留下烘烤，他被警告不允許任何人進入，不許給任何東西，格拉克安靜地坐在火旁邊，
for it was raining very hard, and the kitchen walls were by no means dry. He turned and turned, and the roast got nice and brown.
外面下著大雨，廚房墻壁很潮濕，他將肉翻滾再翻滾，烤肉變成飽滿的棕色。
What a pity, thought Gluck, my brothers never ask anybody to dinner.
格拉克認為太遺憾了，我的兄弟從沒要求其他人來吃晚餐。
I'm sure when they have such a nice piece of mutton as this, and nobody else has so much as a piece of dry bread,
我敢保證，當他們有像這么好的一片羊肉時，人們連一片干面包都沒有，
it would do their hearts good to have somebody to eat it with them.
如果能讓人們和他們一起來進餐，那他們一定會感到快樂。
Just as he spoke, there came a double knock at the door,
就在他說話期間，有人敲了兩下門，
yet heavy and dull, more like a puff than a knock. It must be the wind, said Gluck;
沉重和遲緩，更像是一縷風而不是敲門聲，格拉克說道這一定是風；
nobody else would dare to strike double knocks at our door. No, it wasn't the wind; there it came again very hard.
沒人敢敲擊我們家房門兩下，不是風，又來了一下重重的敲擊聲。
Gluck went to the window, opened it, and put his head out to see who it was.
格拉克走到窗邊，打開窗戶，把頭探出去看是誰。
It was the strangest-looking little gentleman he had ever seen in his life.
是一位身材矮小，長相怪異的男士，他從未見過。
He had a very large nose, slightly brass-colored, and his cheeks were very round and very red.
他的鼻子很長，一點點黃銅色，還有圓潤的紅色臉頰。
His eyes twinkled merrily through long, silky eye-lashes, his mustaches curled twice around like a corkscrew on each side of his mouth,
他歡快地眨著眼，他有著纖細的睫毛，胡子像開塞鉆一樣在嘴角兩邊翹起，
and his hair, of a curious mixed pepper-and-salt color, hung far over his shoulders.
頭發是胡椒和鹽的混合色，垂落在肩膀上。
He was about four-feet-six in height, and wore a pointed cap almost as high as himself,
他差不多有一米八的個頭，穿戴一個差不多和他一樣高的尖帽子，
decorated with a black feather some three feet long. Hanging from his shoulders was an enormous black,
帽子上的黑色羽毛差不多有3英尺，肩膀上垂落著一個巨大的黑色，
glossy-looking cloak, which must have been very much too long in calm weather,
閃閃發亮的斗篷，在無風的天氣下這一定是太過于長了，
as the wind, whistling round the old house, carried it clear out from the wearer's shoulders to about four times his own length.
隨著風環繞著這座老房子，肩膀上的斗篷往外延伸到大約其身高的四倍。
