The vast majority of the goslings are still flourishing.

成千万的小雪雁还在茁壮成长。

Goslings waddle behind their mothers along deserted thoroughfares in Treviso.

在特雷维索，小鹅跟在母亲身后，在荒芜的大跚而行。

And the little guys like here are called goslings.

像这样的小家伙叫做小鹅。

Did you know that Uncle Homer's goslings had hatched? asked Fern.

“你们知吗，霍默舅舅的小鹅已经孵出来了？”弗恩问。

Now these young goslings need to take advantage of the short growing season ahead.

现在这些小雁必须充分利用眼下这短暂的生长季节。

This young gosling is far too big to be swallowed whole and will have to be shared among the entire brood.

这只小鹅太大了，无法被整只吞下，因此将被解以供整窝幼鸟享用。

I wonder that your goslings you should let Go out paddling in the water; It will kill them to get wet.

我想你太不应该，让小鹅们到外面玩耍；他们在水里扑腾嬉戏，全身湿透随时会没命的呀。

We know that the goslings learn their migration from their parents, so there's a lot of learned behavior in it.

“我们知小雁从父母那里学习迁徙，这其中包括很多习得行为。

It basically means that not many goslings are surviving in such a year.

这基本意味着在这样的份里，没有多少小雁存活下来。”

Anybody would think we had three ganders, three geese, and twenty-one goslings.

“谁听了都会以为，我们有三只公鹅，三只母鹅，二十一只小鹅。

We looked at the daily survival of the goslings...

“我们观察了小雁的每日存活率。

Except for the goose herself, Charlotte was the first to know that the goslings had at last arrived.

除了母鹅自己，夏洛是第一个知小鹅终于出世的。

Look, he began in his sharp voice, you say you have seven goslings.

“我说，”它用它那尖嗓子说起来，“你说你有七只小鹅。

Deep in his soft bed, Wilbur snoozed. Over in their favorite corner, the goslings whistled a night song.

威尔伯深深陷在它软绵绵的床呼呼大睡。那些小鹅在另一头它们心爱的角落里希哩希哩地吹着夜曲。

Do you know what Charlotte said when the goslings hatched?

“你知那些小鹅孵出来那会儿，夏洛说了什么吗？”

The seven goslings paraded round and round their mother.

七只小鹅围着它们的妈妈。

Of course, cape barren geese prefer freshwater and after their goslings fledge they'll come to areas with plenty of food and delicious fresh water, such as Phillip Island.

当然，岬角雁更喜欢淡水，当它们的雏鹅羽翼丰满后，它们就会来到有充足食物和美味淡水的地区，例如菲利普岛。

" To-morrow, Marfinka, " said the old lady, " we will entertain our guest with a gosling, pickled pork, carrots, and perhaps with a goose" .

“明天，玛芬卡，”老太太说，“我们将用一只小鹅、腌猪肉、胡萝卜，也许还有一只鹅来招待我们的客。”

He would kill a gosling if he could get away with it - the goose knew that.

如果它咬死了小鹅能逃脱罪责，它是会咬死小鹅的——母鹅心中有数。

" Oh, everybody in the barn cellar. Wilbur and the sheep and the lambs and the goose and the gander and the goslings and Charlotte and me" .

" 噢，就是住在谷仓地窖里的所有。威伯，绵羊，羊羔，母鹅，公鹅，小鹅，夏洛和我。"