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RIMFA, AFRICAN HERD-GIRL Erick Berry
非洲的放牧女孩琳琺 埃里克·貝利
In the first story in this book you went to Africa with Martin Johnson to photograph wild animals.
在本書的第一個故事中，你和馬丁·約翰遜去非洲拍攝野生動物。
Now you will journey again to that great continent. This time you will visit a little African herd-girl,
如今，你將再次前往這個偉大的大陸，這次你會造訪一位小巧的非洲放牧女孩，
see something of life in her village, and learn how she proved her courage, skill, and faithfulness in a time of great danger.
看看她在村莊的生活，學習她是如何在危險的情況下展現勇氣、技能和忠誠的。
Perhaps you will feel that Rimfa was not so different from the boys and girls in our country.
或許你會覺得琳琺和我國的男孩和女孩沒什么不同。
HERDING THE CATTLE
牧牛
It was yet three hours until the time of sundown and driving in the cattle. Now was the hottest part of the long day in West Africa.
還有三個小時才到下山時間，也是驅趕牛群的時間，如今是西非漫長的一天中最熱的時段。
Rimfa, the little herd-girl, yawned as she lay in the shade of a huge tree, the only large tree in sight for miles and miles.
小小放牧女孩琳琺打了個哈欠，她躺在了大樹的陰涼處，這也是綿延幾英里能夠看見的唯一一棵樹。
Before her spread out her father's herd of cattle, fifty slow-moving white cows,
在她驅趕父親的50頭白色奶牛之前，這些奶牛行動緩慢，
each with horns a man's height across and a huge hump between its shoulders.
它們的牛角有一人高，牛肩上有一個巨大的突起。
They lay now in such small shade as they could find, contentedly chewing their cud and calmly looking out over the blazing plain.
奶牛躺在人們可以看到的小陰涼處，滿意地咀嚼反芻的食物，安靜的注視著熾熱的平原。
A cowbird, crowds of which follow the cattle herd, hopped nearer, and made bold by Rimfa's stillness, pecked at a weed near her foot;
一群牛鳥跟隨著這群牛，在它們的附近跳來跳去，琳琺的安靜讓牛鳥更加大膽，在她的腳旁邊啄草；
but at this, Biri, her pet monkey, suddenly sprang up and let out a shrill chatter of rage.
但她的寵物猴比利突然跳了起來，發出憤怒的尖叫聲。
Herding would have seemed a dull life to anyone not accustomed to it,
對于那些不適應的人而言，放牧似乎很無聊，
but Rimfa preferred it to the usual work of the girls of her tribe, to pounding corn and spinning,
但琳琺更喜歡放牧，而不是部落上平常女孩干的事情，比如搗碎玉米和紡線，
and cooking over the tiny fire in front of a hut in the narrow little village. Herding cattle was boys' work.
還有在狹窄的小村莊的簡陋小屋前用小火煮飯，牧牛是男孩的工作。
At present her brother, Burum, was down with the measles.
目前他的哥哥布蘭姆患了麻疹。
For this reason the only daughter of the family was allowed the task of watching the herd.
所以家里唯一的女孩被允許看管牛群。
