Lived an old mother muskrat And her little ratties four

住着一老妈妈和四宝宝。

And it looks like muskrat love.

人们对肉有加。

Plenty of muskrat houses. Free grain. Games every day.

到处是窝。谷粒随便吃。每天都有游戏玩。

" I saw a muskrat, " said Sam, " and a few Red-winged Blackbirds."

“我看见了一，”萨姆说，“还有几红翼歌鸫。”

Serena chose a muskrat lodge on which to build her nest.

塞蕾娜选了一个洞，在那上面造她的窝。

Say, for example, that a muskrat burrows herself a den in one bank of a stream.

比如说，会在溪流的一岸给自己挖个洞穴。

It was the right height above the water. The muskrats had built it of mud and sticks.

这里离水的高度正好合适。这个当初是用湿泥和树枝把洞铺成的。

A muskrat is drowning because he can't swim anymore.

因无法继续游泳而溺水。

Discharged my firearm at a muskrat yesterday.

昨天我朝一开了一枪。

So, diet-wise, it had more in common with today's muskrat than it did with either living beaver.

因此，在饮食方面，它与今天的香的共同点多于与现存海狸的共同点。

Laura and Mary had rabbit-skin caps, and Pa's cap was muskrat.

劳拉和玛丽戴的是兔皮帽子，爸爸的帽子是皮的。

He was trying to catch muskrats.

他想捉香。

He shot wolves and foxes for their fur, and his traps caught beaver and muskrat and mink.

他射杀狼和狐狸以获得它们的皮毛，他的陷阱捕捉到海狸、香和水貂。

The main dish might be unusual at a Michigan group's annual dinner: a pot of muskrat meat mixed with creamed corn.

一锅奶油玉米炖。

Acting on this advice, the muskrat plunged down, then arose with his two little forepaws grasping some earth he had found beneath the waters.

香跳了下去， 然后用两小前爪抓住他在水下发现的一些泥土站了起来。

Iroquois tradition tells us that once this earth was entirely submerged in water, and during this period for many days a busy little muskrat swam about vainly looking for a foothold of earth wherein to build his house.

易洛魁人的传统告诉我们，一旦这个地球完全淹没在水中，在这段时间里，一忙碌的小香在许多天里游来游去，徒劳地寻找一个可以建房子的土地立足点。

Every morning Pa took his gun and his traps and was gone all day in the Big Woods, setting the small traps for muskrats and mink along the creeks, the middle-sized traps for foxes and wolves in the woods.

每天早上，爸爸都拿着他的枪和陷阱， 整天在大树林里， 在小溪边为和水貂设置小陷阱，在树林里为狐狸和狼设置中型陷阱。