10 Brown Wolf

CHAPTER 10 Brown Wolf, by Jack London Madge Irvine pulled on her shoes and rushed out of the house. "Where's Wolf?" she asked her husband, who was eyeing a bursting almond bud. Madge cast a glance across the tall grass and in and out among the orchard trees. "He was here a minute ago," Walt Irvine said. "He was running after a rabbit when I saw him last." "Here, Wolf! Here, boy," Madge called. She left the clearing and followed the trail

第十章棕色的狼，杰克·伦敦玛吉·欧文穿上鞋子，冲出了屋子。 “狼在哪里？”她问她的丈夫，他正盯着一个裂开的杏仁芽。 马奇朝高高的草丛扫了一眼，又在果园的树丛中进进出出。 “他刚才还在这儿，”沃尔特·欧文说。 “我最后一次见到他时，他正在追赶一只兔子。” “在这里,狼!给你，孩子。”玛吉喊道。 她离开了那块空地，沿着小径走了过去

that led through the forest to the county road. Walt gave a shrill, loud whistle. Madge put her hands over her ears to drown out the piercing sound. "There's Wolf!" she cried happily. From the thicket-covered hillside forty feet above them, on the edge of a cliff, Wolf's head and shoulders came crashing out of the underbrush. He gazed below at the man and the woman, his mouth open. He looked like he was smiling at them. "You blessed Wolf!" they called up to him.

穿过森林来到县里的公路。 沃尔特吹了一声刺耳的口哨。 玛吉用手捂住耳朵，盖过刺耳的声音。 “狼来了！”她高兴地叫道。 在离他们四十英尺高的山坡上，在悬崖边上，狼的头和肩膀从矮树丛中撞了出来。 他张着嘴凝视着下面那对男女。 他看起来像是在对他们微笑。 “你这该死的狼！”他们朝他喊道。

His ears flattened back and down at the sound of their voices, as if to snuggle under an invisible hand. They walked up and met him along the trail. He did not require much petting. A pat and a rub around the ears from the man. A longer stroke from the woman. Then he was on his way along the trail, gliding in front of them in true wolf fashion. He looked like a huge wolf with his thick

听到他们的声音，他的耳朵向后垂下，好像要依偎在一只看不见的手下面。 他们走上前去，沿着小路遇见了他。 他不需要太多的爱抚。 男人拍了拍耳朵，揉了揉耳朵。 那女人又挥了一挥。 然后他沿着小路走，以真正的狼的方式在他们前面滑行。 他看起来像一只巨大的狼

coat and large build. But he had the unmistakable coloring of a dog. He was brown. Not just any brown, but a deep brown, a red-brown, a collection of all sorts of browns. His back and shoulders were a warm brown. On the sides he was a pale brown. And his underbelly was a yellow, dingy brown. There was white fur at his throat and paws, and white spots surrounded his golden-brown eyes. The man and the woman loved the dog very much. It had been very hard for them to win his love. Wolf had drifted into their lives mysteriously, from nowhere to their little mountain cottage. Nearly starving, he had killed a rabbit right under their window. Then he crawled away and slept by a small spring at the foot of their blackberry bushes. When Walt Irvine had gone down to see the dog, Wolf had snarled at him. When Madge Irvine offered him bread and a pan of milk,

被毛大，体型大。但他的肤色却和狗一样。 他是棕色的。不是普通的棕色，而是深棕色，红棕色，各种棕色的集合。 他的后背和肩膀是温暖的棕色。 他的身体两侧呈浅棕色。 他的下腹部是一片黄褐色。 它的喉咙和爪子上长着白色的毛，金棕色的眼睛周围有白色的斑点。 男人和女人都很爱这只狗。 他们很难赢得他的爱。 狼神秘地闯入了他们的生活，不知从哪里来到了他们的小山村。 快饿死的时候，他在他们的窗下杀死了一只兔子。 然后他爬开，睡在黑莓灌木丛脚下的一个小泉水旁。 当沃尔特·欧文下楼去看那只狗时，狼已经对他吼叫了。 当玛吉·欧文递给他面包和一锅牛奶时，

he snarled at her, too. For a long time, Wolf refused their kindness. He wouldn't let them pet him. He threatened them with his bare fangs. Nevertheless, he stayed beside their spring, resting and eating the food they brought him. After several days, when he was feeling and looking better, he disappeared. This could have been the end of the relationship among Madge, Walt, and the dog. But then Walt was called away to work, and while traveling on the train he looked out the window and saw Wolf running alongside. He was tireless, dust-covered, and two hundred miles away from Walt's mountain cottage! Without thinking, Walt hopped off the train at the next station and bought a piece of meat at a butcher shop. He enticed the dog with the meat, captured him, and

他也对她咆哮。很长一段时间，狼拒绝了他们的好意。 他不让他们抚摸他。 他用赤裸的尖牙威胁他们。 然而，他留在他们的泉水边，休息，吃他们带给他的食物。 几天后，当他感觉好多了，看上去也好些了，他就不见了。 这可能是马奇、沃尔特和那只狗之间关系的终结。 但后来沃尔特被叫去工作了，当他在火车上旅行时，他向窗外望去，看到狼在旁边跑。 他不知疲倦，满身灰尘，离沃尔特的山间小屋有200英里远！沃尔特不假思索地在下一站跳下火车，在肉店买了一块肉。 他用肉引诱狗，抓住了它，然后

traveled with him in the baggage car. He brought him back to the mountain cottage. Walt and Madge tied up Wolf so that he could not escape. They spent the next week giving him as much love and attention as they could. Wolf snarled at their soft-spoken words. He growled at their attempts to pet him. He never barked, though. In all the time they knew him, he never once barked. Winning Wolf's affections was a problem. But Walt Irvine liked problems. He made a collar with a silver plate that read, RETURN TO WALT IRVINE, SONOMA COUNTY, CA. Then Walt let Wolf loose. And again— Wolf disappeared! He made it more than a hundred miles up to Oregon before Walt received a telegram telling him that Wolf had been captured. The dog went back by Wells Fargo Express that evening, and the couple tied him up for three more days. On the

和他一起在行李车上旅行。 他把他带回了山上的小屋。 沃尔特和玛吉把狼绑起来，这样他就逃不掉了。 在接下来的一个星期里，他们给了他尽可能多的爱和关注。 狼听到他们轻声细语，怒吼起来。 他对他们试图抚摸他的行为大吼大叫。 不过，它从不吠叫。他们认识他这么久，他一次也没叫过。 赢得狼的感情是个问题。 但沃尔特·欧文喜欢问题。 他做了一个银制的项圈，上面写着“返回加州索诺玛县沃特尔湾”。 然后沃尔特放了沃尔夫。又一次——狼不见了！他跑了一百多英里到达俄勒冈州后，沃尔特收到了一封电报，告诉他沃尔夫被捕了。 那天晚上，这只狗乘坐富国银行快车回来了，这对夫妇又把它绑了三天。 在