So engrossed had they been in their gossip that they had not heard her light tread and now, confronted by their hostess, they looked like whispering schoolgirls caught by a teacher.

她们刚才专心致志地在那里叽咕议论，没有听见媚兰轻盈的脚步，现在看见女主人站在面前，她们学生咬耳朵，被老师当场抓住了一样。

As Harry squelched along the deserted corridor he came across somebody who looked just as preoccupied as he was.

哈利咕叽咕叽地走在空无一人的走廊上，突然看见一个和他一样心事重重的人。

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

他从我手里把那本书一把夺走，急急忙忙把它放回书架的原处，一面叽咕着说什么假使一块砖头被挪开，整个图书室有塌掉。

This was most unusual: Cho was almost always surrounded by a gang of giggling girls; Harry remembered the agony of trying to get her by herself to ask her to the Yule Ball.

这真是同寻常，秋几乎总是被一大帮叽叽咕咕的女生包围着。哈利还记得他曾经有过的痛苦：他千方百计地想在她独自一人时碰到她，好邀请她参加圣诞节的舞会。

The Deltas muttered, jostled one another a little, and then were still. The threat had been effective.

德尔塔们叽咕了几句，挤了一下，动了。威胁生了效。

Jolly good, jolly good, pip pip chewy or whatever you want to do.

好极了，好极了，叽叽咕咕嚼一嚼，随便你做什么都行。

The next day, Guji Guji did as he'd been told-- he took the flock of ducks to the bridge to practice diving.

第二天，咕叽咕叽按照吩咐，带着一群鸭子到桥上练习跳水。

Today we're going to be reading a story by Chih-Yuan Chen called Guji Guji.

今天我们要读的是陈志远的故事《咕叽咕叽》。

Guji Guji had saved the ducks!

咕叽咕叽救了鸭子！