狼

We kept our Arms ready, and our Eyes about us, but we saw no more Wolves,'till we came thro' that Wood, which was near half a League, and entred the Plain; as soon as we came into the Plain, we had Occasion enough to look about us: The first Object we met with, was a dead Horse; that is to say, a poor Horse which the Wolves had kill'd, and at least a Dozen of them at Work; we could not say eating of him, but picking of his Bones rather; for they had eaten up all the Flesh before We did not think fit to disturb them at their Feast, neither did they take much Notice of us: Friday would have let fly at them, but I would not suffer him by any Means; for I found we were like to have more Business upon our Hands than we were aware of.

我们手里紧握着枪，眼睛紧盯着四面八方。可是在我们穿过那座一英里多长的树林，进入平川地以前，再也没有看见过别的狼。等我们一进入平川，向四下一望，头一眼就见到一匹死马。这是一匹被狼群咬死的马，同时见到至少有十二条狼在那里大吃特吃；其实，马肉早就给它们吃光了，现在正在啃马骨头呢！我们感到不应该去打扰它们的盛宴，何况它们也没有注意我们。星期五本来想向它们开枪，可是我怎么也不同意。因为我感到，我们的麻烦还在后面呢，尽管我们现在还不知道。

The wolf got up again with a surprising rapidity and flew at the young hound; his teeth clacked, and the hound, covered with blood from a gash in his side, thrust its head in the earth, squealing shrilly.

那只狼出乎意料疾速地抬起身子，向黑褐色的公犬扑过去，咬了它一口，牙齿碰得磕磕地响了一下，公犬的肋部给狼撕开了，身上鲜血淋漓，发出尖声的惨叫，倒了下来，将头埋入土里了。

Researchers put a GPS collar on a pack leader they named Brutus and found that he roamed as many as 41 kilometers in a 12 hour period. That includes jaunts across the newly formed sea ice between the pack 's home on Ellesmere Island and adjacent islands in Nunavut.

科学家给一群狼的头狼带上了GPS项圈，发现它在12小时内走了41公里，甚至去埃尔斯米尔岛和附近努纳乌特岛屿之间新形成的海冰上转了一圈。

Just at that time, an old wolf begins to attack us. It jumps high and pounces on us. But the goat has got ready. It puts its horns into the stomach of the wolf.

就在爷爷跌倒之际，一只老狼发起了进攻，它后腿一蹬，腾空跃起，谁料大山羊早有防备，两只尖尖的犄角猛地亮在了狼的肚皮下。

The mother and her pups were sitting where I had left them, watching me.

母狼和狼崽们卧在我将它们留下的地方，望着我。

The next morning our guide was so ill, and his limbs swelled with the rankling of his two wounds, that he could go no farther; so we were obliged to take a new guide there, and go to Tholouse, where we found a warm climate, a fruitful pleasant country, and no snow, no wolves, or any thing like them; but when we told our story at Tholouse, they told us it was nothing but what was ordinary in the great forest at the foot of the Mountains, especially when the snow lay on the ground: But they enquired much what kind of a guide we had gotten, that would venture to bring us that way in such a severe season; and told us, it was very much we were not all devoured.

第二天早晨，我们的向导病了，他伤势加重，两处伤口化脓，四肢都肿了，不能往前带路了。我们只得在那里另外找了一个向导，把我们带到托罗斯（上引地图和词典均未见。译者注），我们发现那是一个气候温和，物产丰富，风景明媚的地方，还没有雪，没有狼，或其他这类家伙。当我们给那里的人讲述我们这段故事时，他们对我们说，在山脚下的大森林里，特别是当大地被雪覆盖的时候，狼这种事太平常了，一点儿也不稀罕。但他们多次问我们，我们雇的向导是何等样人，居然敢在这严冬季节带我们走这条路。

Under protection and reintroduced to former habitats, the gray wolf population has come back.

在政府的保护下，灰狼又重回以前的生活地，灰狼的数量也恢复到了以前的水平。

I was savoring the gift of peace and quiet conferred on me by the absence of Mrs.

我享受着这份平静与安宁，因为狼妈妈和小狼崽子们都不在家，出城访亲去了。

Animals closest to the wolf at the back end of the herd looked like a blanket unraveling and tattering, which, from the wolf's perspective, must have been extremely confusing.

离狼最近且在鹿群末端的鹿跑起来就像一张被拆碎的地毯四处而逃，而对狼来说，这种现象肯定是非常让它不知所措。

It tingles in the spine of all who hear wolves by night, or who scan their tracks by day.

夜里听到狼的叫声或者白天搜索狼的踪迹的人，都被它刺痛脊骨。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。