美国小学英语教材5:第51课 午夜猎狮(7)

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As long as he kept to his place, he was allowed to eat. 只要他呆在自己的地方，就允许他继续进食。

But once when he got up too close and started for the same bit of meat as one of the others, the big lion rose up and gave him a slap. 但是有一次，他站得太近了，想要和其他狮子进食同样的肉时，大狮子站了起来，打了他一巴掌。

It seemed a light blow, but it sent the youngster¹ sprawling² into the grass. 这似乎是一个轻微的打击，但却把小狮子打翻在草地上。

He jumped up and ran over to the other side of the zebra, where he lay down beside a lioness, probably his mother. 小狮子跳起来，跑到斑马的另一边，躺在一只母狮子旁边，这也许是它的妈妈。

After we had watched them for some time by the light of our flashlights, we noticed that one of the cameras had been knocked down. 我们借着手电筒看了一会儿之后，注意到有一台照相机被撞坏了。

We were just discussing this in whispers when one of the big lions left the zebra, walked over to the fallen camera, and began chewing on it. 就在我们窃窃私语的时候，一只大狮子离开了斑马，走到倒下的摄像机前，开始咀嚼斑马。

Then he grabbed³ it in his mouth and started dragging it away. 然后叼在嘴里，开始拖走。

Suddenly in some way one of the legs of the tripod flew up and hit him. 突然，不知怎的，三脚架的一条腿飞了起来，打在他身上。

He jumped almost twenty feet. 他几乎跳了二十英尺。

In a few minutes he came back to it; 几分钟后，他又回过头来；

slowly at first, but when he saw it did not move, he pounced⁴ on it. 起初，他慢慢地，但当他看到三脚架没有动，随即扑过去。

 

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