His voice broke on the last word.

他说到最后一个字的时候都声如蚋了。

They scheduled later digs for high summer, preferring the risk of dehydration and heatstroke to gnat bites.

他们把之后的挖掘排在夏天最炎热的时候，宁可水和中暑的风险，也不想被蚋叮咬。

The nickname Gnatalie came unromantically from the tiny gnats that maddened team members the first year of excavation.

“蚋塔莉这称一点也不浪漫，源自挖掘的第一年令团队成员苦不堪言的蚋。

It awakened gnats, which flew towards it, revealed shiny gossamer threads, disturbed earthworms.

它唤醒了飞向它的蚋， 露出闪亮的薄纱， 扰乱了蚯蚓。

When the gnat had heard that, she flew away again, and revealed everything, down to the minutest detail, to the willow-wren.

蚋一听，又飞走了，把所有的事，连最微的节都告诉了柳鹪鹩。

They entered the ships and the prince was approaching his own, when God sent a swarm of gnats—one swarm of little gnats.

他们登上了飞船， 王子正要接近自己的飞船时，上帝派来了一群蚋——一群的蚋。

The pastillions, with a thousand gossamer gnats circling about them in lieu of the furies, quietly mended the points to the lashes of their whips.

那些鞭子， 周围有成千上万的蚋盘旋， 仿佛代替了复仇女神，静静地修补鞭子上的穗饰。