瓦尔登湖三人行（153）《瓦尔登湖》第12章（12）结束篇 腾讯会议版

Walden [ˈwɔldən] (Issue 153) 12. Brute Neighbors (12)结束篇 [18] For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman; tricks which they will have less need to practise in Louisiana bayous[ˈbaɪuːs]. When compelled to rise they would sometimes circle round and round and over the pond at a considerable height, from which they could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black motes in the sky; and, when I thought they had gone off thither long since, they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a mile on to a distant part which was left free; but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. 在秋天的日子，一连数小时，我注视着那些狡猾地钉在、顺风、占据湖中央的野鸭，他们远离了猎人；那些花招他们较少需要去使用在路易斯安那的河口。当被迫起飞，他们有时也愿意绕着圈儿转啊转，在湖的上方，相当的高度，从那里他们能轻而易举看其他湖和那条河流的动静，就像天空里的小黑点，他们会斜飞四分之一英里然后降落在一个远远的地方，那里能自由自在；但是除了安全考虑，他们航行到瓦尔登湖心还有什么别的目的我不得而知，除非他们也和我同样理由爱它那水。