英国语文第四册(双语):捕杀北美野牛(3)
But now the rear column comes on.
但现在，后面的牛群又过来了。
They see us not fifty rods off, but happily pay no attention to us.
它们离我们很近，所幸并没有注意到我们。
We dismount and face the furious creatures.
我们跳下马，面对着这群暴怒的动物。
Should they not divide, but come over the hill, in a few instants we must be trampled to death.
如果它们没给我们让开路，而是直接冲上山来，我们肯定会惨死于它们的蹄下。
The herd approaches to within a hundred yards of the hill.
牛群来到距小山不到一百码的地方。
At that point they divide, and the next moment we are standing on a desert island,
它们在那里分开了，在山的两侧每半英里就有狂怒的野牛，
a sea of billowing backs flowing round on either side in a half-mile current of crazy buffaloes.
有如翻滚的海浪，将我们阻隔在一座荒岛上。
The herd is fully five minutes in passing us.
牛群只用了五分钟就全部翻过了山，
We watch them as they come;
我们目睹了它们的到来；
and as the last laggers pant by the mound, we look westward and see the stampeders halting.
最后的几只野牛上到山上时，我们向西瞭望，看到牛群突然止步不前了。
We soon understand the cause. They have come up with the main herd.
我们很快明白了原因，它们和主力军汇合了。
Yes, there, in full sight of us, is the buffalo army, fully ten thousand strong, extending its deep line as far as the western horizon!
就在那里，一支野牛大军出现在我们眼前，足足有一万头，一直延伸到西部的尽头！
Having selected the most, useful and portable parts of the animals our party have killed,
选出我们猎杀到的最多、最有用以及最便于携带的部分，
we return to the farm with our spoils.
我们带着这些战利品回村子去了。
