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Harris looked very sad. In fact, he looked like a man who had had a lot of trouble. We asked him if anything had happened, and he said, "Swans!"
哈里斯看上去十分难过，就好像经历了一场大劫难。我们问他到底发生了什么事儿，他说了两个字：“天鹅！”
We had left the boat near a swan's nest, and, soon after George and I had left, Mrs Swan came back. She started to shout at Harris. However, Harris managed to chase her away, and she went to fetch her husband. Harris said he had had quite a hard battle with these two swans. But he had fought bravely and, in the end, he defeated them.
原来，我们把船停在了天鹅巢的旁边。就在我和乔治起身刚走，天鹅太太回来了。她冲着哈里斯直嚷嚷，而哈里斯呢，使出浑身解数把天鹅太太赶走。于是她把她丈夫拉来了。哈里斯说他和两只天鹅战斗得异常激烈，哈里斯愈战愈勇，最后大获全胜。
Half an hour later they returned with eighteen more swans. There was another terrible battle. Harris said the swans had tried to pull him and Montmorency from the boat and drown them. But, once again, Harris fought bravely, for four hours, and he had killed them all. Then they had all swum away to die.
过了半个小时，它们卷土重来——又带来了十八只天鹅！又是一场昏天黑地的战斗。那些天鹅要把哈里斯和“元帅”拖到水里去，淹死他们。哈里斯再次以大无畏的精神又战斗了四个小时，把它们全部歼灭。它们只能游到别的地方，等死去吧！
"How many swans did you say there were?" George asked.
“你说一共有多少只天鹅？”乔治问道。
"Thirty-two," Harris replied, sleepily.
“三十二只，”哈里斯半睡半醒地回答说。
"You said eighteen before," George said.
“可你刚才不是说十八只吗？”乔治说。
"No, I didn't," Harris answered. "I said twelve. Do you think I can't count?"
“我可没说，”哈里斯咕哝道。“我说的是十二只。你当我不会数数啊？”
