The cygnets crept under their mother's wings. Darkness settled on woods and fields and marsh.

小天鹅们都钻到们妈妈的翅膀底下去。黑暗笼罩森林，野地和沼泽。

Four cygnets were stolen but were later recovered from a local pet shop.

四只小天鹅被盗，但后来从当地一家宠物店被找回。

The cob now looked worried. He ran his long white neck between the cygnets and the boy and guided the babies back to the water and to their mother.

雄天鹅现在有些担心。白色的长脖子弯到小天鹅和男孩之间，领着孩子们回到水里去找们的妈妈。

" Ko-hoh! " cried the cygnet. He rushed to his father and mother. " Look! Look! Look! "

“吭—嗬！”只小天鹅叫起来。跑到的父母旁边。“看！看！看！”

" Ready! " cried all the cygnets except Louis.

“准备好！”除路易斯外的所有小天鹅都么大叫。

" One, two, three, four, five. Five cygnets, just as sure as I'm alive! "

“一、二、三、四、五。五只小天鹅，我还活着一样可以肯定！”

My bird book says baby swans are called cygnets.

我的那本介绍鸟类的书里说刚出生的天鹅叫Cygnets。

So the queen cygnets didn't have any nicks.

所以那些小天鹅宝宝身上都没有伤痕。

Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

到处都有一只小天鹅在棕色池塘里的小鸭子中间不安地长大， 永远找不到与它自己的燕尾类动物相处的活生生的溪流。

Louis was the first of the young cygnets to become airborne, ahead of all his brothers and sisters.

路易斯是第一只升到空中的小天鹅，飞到的哥哥姐姐们的前面。

The cygnets gazed for a second at the water, then tottered forward, gave a jump, and were afloat.

小天鹅们对水看一眼，然后摇晃着走上前去，跳进水里浮起来。

And they would go along the Thames from Teddington to Henley, and put nicks in the beaks of all the cygnets born.

们沿着泰晤士河从特丁顿航行到亨利，给所有新生的小天鹅的喙上刻上标记。

Thoughts of springtime and nesting and little cygnets. Oh, ever in the greening spring!

想着春天和鸟窝还有小天鹅们。哦，又到绿色的春天！

They quickly followed her out of the pond and burrowed down under her feathers to get warm. In a moment there wasn't a cygnet in sight.

们很快地跟着她离开池塘，钻到妈妈的羽毛下取暖。片刻之间，一只小天鹅也看不见。

Soon another cygnet appeared. Then another. Then the first one worked his way down into his mother's feathers again, for warmth.

不久，另一只小天鹅也出来。然后是另一只。时那第一只为取暖又跑回到妈妈的羽毛里面去。

If I can persuade the Head Man to let Serena remain free, would you be willing to donate one of your cygnets, now and then, if the Zoo needs another swan for the lake?

如果我能劝那个负责人塞蕾娜放走，你愿意在个动物园需要湖上再添一只天鹅的时候，你的一只小天鹅捐赠出来吗？

The third cygnet greeted Sam the same way. So did the fourth.

第三只小天鹅用同样的方式对萨姆打招呼。第四只也是。

He was thinking of swans' nests, and eggs, and the hatching of eggs, and the cygnets following their father in single file.

正在想着天鹅的窝，鸟蛋，孵蛋的情景，还有那些跟着们的父亲飞成一行的小天鹅们。

She walked over to where her sleeping cygnets were and settled down next to them.

她走到她的小天鹅们睡觉的地方，挨着们蹲坐下来。

The fifth cygnet was different. He opened his mouth but didn't say a thing.

第五只小天鹅则完全不同。张开嘴，可什么都没说出来。