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I had but newly finished my Fence, and began to enjoy my Labour, but the Rains came on, and made me stick close to my first Habitation; [qh]
我刚把新居的围墙打好，准备享受自己的劳动果实，就下起大雨来。我被困在旧居，无法外出。[qh]
for tho'I had made me a Tent like the other, with a Piece of a Sail,and spread it very well; [qh]
在新居，我也像这儿旧居那样用帆布搭了个帐篷，并且支撑得十分牢固，[qh]
yet I had not the Shelter of a Hill to keep me from Storms, nor a Cave behind me to retreat into, when the Rains were extraordinary. [qh]
但那儿没有小山挡住风暴，下大雨时也无山洞可退身。[qh]
About the Beginning of August, as I said, I had finished my Bower, and began to enjoy myself. [qh]
如上所述，八月初，我建好了茅舍，准备在里面享受一番。[qh]
The third of August, I found the Grapes I had hung up were perfectly dry’d, and indeed, were excellent good Raisins of the Sun; [qh]
八月三日，我发现我原先挂在树枝上的一串串葡萄已完全晒干了，成了上等葡萄干。[qh]
so I began to take them down from the Trees, and it was very happy that I did so; [qh]
我便动手把它们从树上收下来。[qh]
for the Rains which followed would have spoiled them, and I had lost the best Part of my Winter Food; [qh]
我庆幸自己及时收下了葡萄干，要不，后来马上大雨倾盆，葡萄干肯定会全毁了。那样我就会失去冬季一大半的食物。[qh]
for I had above two hundred large Bunches of them. [qh]
事实上，我差不多晒了两百来串葡萄，而且每串都很大。[qh]
No sooner had I taken them all down, and carried most of them Home to my Cave, but it began to rain, and from hence, which was the fourteenth of August, it rained more or less, every Day, till the Middle of October; [qh]
我刚把葡萄干全收下来，并把大部分运到旧居山洞里贮藏起来，就下起了雨。从这时期，也就是从八月十四日期，一直到十月中旬，几乎天天下雨；[qh]
and sometimes so violently, that I could not stir out of my Cave for several Days. [qh]
有时滂沱大雨，一连几天无法出门。[qh]
In this Season I was much surprised with the Increase of my Family; [qh]
在这个雨季里，我的家庭成员增加了，这大大出乎我的意料之外。[qh]
I had been concerned for the Loss of one of my Cats, who run away from me, or as I thought had been dead, and I heard no more Tale or Tidings of her, till to my Astonishment she came Home about the End of August, with three Kittens; [qh]
在此之前，有一只猫不见了，不知是死了呢，还是跑了，我一无所知，所以心里一直十分挂念。不料在八月底，它忽然回来了，还带回来了三只小猫。[qh]
this was the more strange to me, because tho'I had killed a wild Cat, as I called it, with my Gun; [qh]
这使我惊讶不已。岛上确实有野猫，我还用枪打死过一只。[qh]
yet I thought it was a quite differing Kind from our European Cats; yet the young Cats were the same Kind of House breed like the old one; and both my Cats being Females, I thought it very strange: [qh]
更使我感到奇怪的是，这些小猫完全是家猫，与大猫长得一模一样，它们是怎么生出来的呢？因为，我的两只猫都是母猫。但那种野猫完全是另外一种品种，与欧洲猫不一样。[qh]
But from these three Cats, I afterwards came to be so pestered with Cats, that I was forced to kill them like Vermine, or wild Beasts, and to drive them from my House as much as possible. [qh]
后来，这三只小猫又繁殖了许多后代，闹得我不可开交。最后，我把这些泛滥成灾的猫视为害虫野兽，不是把它们杀掉，就是把它们赶出家门。[qh]
