Below the apple orchard, at the end of a path, was the dump
在苹果园下面的那条小路的尽头就是那个垃圾场。
where Mr. Zuckerman threw all sorts of trash and stuff that nobody wanted any more.
朱克曼先生把所有垃圾和不要的东西都扔在那里。
Here, in a small clearing hidden by young alders and wild raspberry bushes,
就在这儿,在小桤木和野悬钩子丛遮住的一小块空地上,
was an astonishing pile of old bottles
是好大好大一堆旧瓶子、
and empty tin cans
空罐子、
and dirty rags
脏布头、
and bits of metal
碎铁片、
and broken bottles
破瓶子、
and broken hinges
破铰链、
and broken springs
破弹簧、
and dead batteries
废电池、
and last month's magazines
上个月的过期杂志、
and old discarded dishmops
扔掉的刷碗碟小抹布、
and tattered overalls
破套靴、
and rusty spikes
锈钉子、
and leaky pails
漏水的桶子、
and forgotten stoppers
给忘掉的塞子、
and useless junk of all kinds,
各种各样没用的垃圾,
including a wrong-size crank for a broken ice-cream freezer.
包括破冰淇淋桶尺寸不对的曲柄。
Templeton knew the dump and liked it.
这垃圾场坦普尔顿最熟悉最喜欢。
There were good hiding places there
那里有可以躲藏的好地方
- excellent cover for a rat.
——对老鼠来说是极好的藏身处。
And there was usually a tin can with food still clinging to the inside.
那里总是有里面还粘着点食物的罐子。