A recent call came in saying that ducklings had gotten stuck in a storm drain.

最近有人打电话来说，小鸭子们被困在下水道里了。

You can't see the ducklings here but you can hear them.

虽然看不到小鸭子，但你却可以听到它们。

Anna, when you say the words " duck" and " duckling" you look really sad.

安娜，当你说“鸭子”和“小鸭子”的时候你看起来很悲伤。

" No, you're not an ugly duckling."

“不，你不是只丑小鸭。”

First, they took 1-day-old ducklings and exposed them to a pair of moving objects.

首先，他们大的小鸭子暴露在对移动的物体下。

These little ducklings have the best trick of all.

这小鸭子有着最好的伎俩。

Firefighters in Florida used technology to rescue 8 ducklings from a storm drain.

佛罗里达州的员使用现代技术从暴雨排水沟中救出了8只小鸭。

I'm playing, I'm playing, playing with my duckling.

我在玩耍，我在玩耍，跟我的鸭子起玩耍。

Susan used to be an ugly duckling.

苏珊以前是只丑小鸭。

What their mother does next will present the ducklings with their first challenge.

下面妈妈要做的就是教它们迎接第项挑战。

Oh, it's a duck call to make the ducklings feel safe.

是能让小鸭子觉得安全的鸭叫声。

The three yellow ducklings sit on her back.

三只小黄鸭坐在她的背上。

It's time to say goodbye to the ducklings now.

要和小鸭子们说再见了。

It is quite hard to tell these ducklings apart.

要分辨出这小鸭间的差异相当不容易。

All he'd wanted was to find his family, just like the ugly duckling.

他所渴望的只是像丑小鸭样找到自己的家人。

At home, he served the film-maker sweet tea. While the two men discussed what film they might make, he taught a young boy how to care for his pet duckling.

在家时，他请电影制作人喝了甜茶。在两个人讨论他们可能拍摄什么电影时，他教个小男孩如何照顾他的宠物小鸭。

For instance, the word darling means “little dear.” A duckling is a baby duck; and a fingerling can refer to either a baby fish or a very small potato. That's funnyish, right?

例如，darling 这个词的意思是“小宝贝”。duckling 是只小鸭子；fingerling 指的是小鱼或者小土豆。这很有趣对吧？

My sister was an ugly duckling. She looked strange when she was a child, but she grew up to be a beautiful woman.

我妹妹过去是只丑小鸭，她小时候长得很奇怪，但长大后她成了个美丽的女人。

That is, until the day a family of ducks swam by. Our Lab joined the ducklings and began to paddle with them.

直到有，群鸭子游了过来。我们的狗加入了鸭子，和它们块戏水。

True instincts, like turtles making their way to the sea or ducklings bonding with their mothers, require no learning.

真正的本能是不用证明的，就像海龟用它们的方式去海边和小鸭子总是跟着它们的妈妈样。