Another term for those lights was a fire drake, or a kit with a candlestick.

那些灯光的另一个说法是火龙，或者带着蜡烛的篮子。

The drakes are Rabelaisian, they are Turks, they are Huns.

德雷克斯是拉伯雷式的， 他们是土耳其， 他们是匈。

In odd moments the drakes fight one another.

在奇怪的时刻， 龙兽会互相争斗。

They must feed surreptitiously by night, for it does not seem as though the drakes give them time by day.

它们必须在夜间偷偷进食， 因为龙兽似乎没有在白给它们时间。

The drakes are displeased and suspicious.

龙兽们很不高兴， 也很怀疑。

Such a one comes as close as a drake can to unhappiness, lean for lack of love, his neck picked clean of feathers.

这样的就像一只公鸭一样接近不幸， 因为缺乏爱而瘦弱， 脖子上的羽毛被拔得一干二净。

Then the new clutches are safely raised and join the parent flock and one day in summer it is suddenly almost impossible to tell the drakes from the hens.

后新的窝被安全地饲养并加入母鸡群， 在夏的某一之间几乎不可能区分母鸡和公鸭。

By inputting the numbers that scientists currently  believe to be most likely, and by making a few assumptions of my own along the way, we will  attempt to solve the drake equation.

通过输入科学家目前认为最有可能的数字，并在此过程中做出一些我自己的假设，我们将尝试求解德雷克方程。

Now and then in the night they burst into an uproar and I know that some small animal trespasser is going by. Sometimes the commotion, I know, comes when one of the drakes is having a nocturnal amorous moment.

他们不时在夜里爆发出喧闹声，我知道有一些动物闯入者经过。我知道，有时骚动是在其中一只龙兽在夜间享受浪漫时刻时发生的。

Yeah, they're only second on streaming to drake, biggest boy band in the world, the most influential people.

是的，他们仅在流媒体播放量上仅次于德雷克，全球最大的男子组合，最有影响力的。

But the overall winner was this objectively wonderful, very anatomically accurate painting of a lesser scalp drake by artist Richard Clifton.

但最终胜出的是这幅由艺术家理查德·克利夫顿创作的、客观上极为出色且解剖结构精准的次级冠毛公鸭画作。

There is always one outcast drake among them whom they have evidently agreed shall not have a chance to produce his pariah's progeny.

他们中总会有一只被遗弃的幼龙， 他们显同意没有机会生育他的贱民后代。