" You do not think it odd, " asked Poirot, " that these strangers should come unprovided with a weapon, with gloves, with a spade, and that they should so conveniently find all these things" ?

“你不觉得奇怪吗，”波洛问道，“这些陌生人没有带武器、没有手套、没有一把铁锹，而且他们很容易就能找所有这些东西，这不奇怪吗？”

Her master did not " knock her on the head, " as is sometimes done to put a suffering animal out of misery, but left her unprovided for, and unprotected, to linger through a life of pain and wretchedness to its natural close.

主人并没有像有时为了让一只受苦动物摆脱痛苦那样“头”，而是任由毫无准备地、毫无保护地在痛苦和悲惨生活中徘徊，直至自然结束。