25 THE EGG

CHAPTER 25 THE EGG As Roz stood in the rain, staring down at those poor, lifeless geese, her sensitive ears detected a faint peeping sound coming from somewhere nearby. She followed the peeps over to a clump of wet leaves on the ground. And when she peeled back the leaves, she discovered a single perfect goose egg sunk in the mud. "Mama! Mama!" peeped a tiny, muffled voice from within the egg. The robot gently cradled the fragile thing in her hand. Without a family, the unhatched gosling inside would surely die. Roz knew that some animals had to die for others to live. That was how the wilderness worked. But would she allow her accident to cause the death of yet another gosling? After a moment, the robot started to walk. Carefully holding the egg, she moved through the forest and away from that sad scene. But she didn't get far

第二十五章蛋罗兹站在雨中，低头望着那些可怜的、死气沉沉的鹅，她灵敏的耳朵听到了附近某个地方传来的微弱的窃窃声。 她跟着偷窥者走到地上一丛湿漉漉的树叶前。 当她剥开树叶时，她发现了一个陷在泥里的鹅蛋。 “妈妈!妈妈！”一个微弱而低沉的声音从蛋里传出来。 机器人轻轻地把这个易碎的东西抱在她手里。 没有家庭，里面未孵化的小鹅肯定会死。 罗兹知道有些动物必须死才能让另一些动物活下去。 这就是荒野的运作方式。 但她会允许她的意外造成另一只小鹅的死亡吗？ 过了一会儿，机器人开始走路了。 她小心翼翼地抱着蛋，穿过森林，离开了那个悲伤的场景。 但她没能走多远

before Fink burst out from the bushes.

然后芬克从灌木丛中冲了出来。

"What happened?" The fox panted. "The whole forest was shaking!" "There was an accident," said the robot. "I was climbing those cliffs when the rocks started to fall." "You should be more careful," said Fink as he checked out the robot's new scrapes and dents. "I'll need your help if I ever have more porcupine trouble!" "I will be more careful." "What do you have there?" said Fink, looking up at Roz's hands. "A goose egg." "Oh! I love eggs! Can I eat it?" "No." "Please?" "No." "Why do you want it?" The fox scowled. "I thought you didn't eat food." "You may not have this egg, Fink." The fox sighed. He scratched his chin. And then he started sniffing the breeze. His nose had found the scent of the dead geese. "You can keep your egg!" he said as he trotted toward the cliffs. "I smell something better!"

“发生什么事了?”狐狸喘着气。 “整个森林都在震动！”“发生了事故，”机器人说。 “我正在爬那些悬崖，突然岩石开始掉下来。” “你应该更加小心，”芬克一边检查机器人身上新的刮痕和凹痕一边说。 “如果我再遇到豪猪的麻烦，我需要你的帮助！”“我会更小心的。” “你拿的是什么？”芬克抬头看着罗兹的手说。 “一个鹅蛋。”“哦!我喜欢鸡蛋！我能吃吗？”“没有。” “好吗?”“没有。”“你为什么想要它？”狐狸皱起了眉头。 “我以为你不吃东西呢。” “你不能得到这个蛋，芬克。” 狐狸叹了口气。他挠了挠下巴。 然后他开始闻到微风。 他的鼻子闻到了死鹅的气味。 “你可以留着你的蛋！”他一边小跑着向悬崖走去，一边说。 “我闻到了更好的味道！”

The robot walked on through the misty forest for a long time, until she was standing beneath a sprawling oak tree. Roz placed the egg on a pad of moss. Then she snatched grass and twigs from the ground and delicately wove them together to make a little nest. She placed the egg inside the nest, placed the nest on her flat shoulder, and climbed up into the branches.

机器人在雾蒙蒙的森林里走了很长时间，直到她站在一棵蔓生的橡树下。 罗兹把鸡蛋放在一层苔藓上。 然后，她从地上抓起草和树枝，精心地编织在一起，做了一个小巢。 她把蛋放在窝里，把窝放在她平坦的肩膀上，然后爬上了树枝。