But I don't mean to bore you with my old coot stories here.

但是我不打算讲我那些老掉牙的故事，让你们觉得厌烦。

Hey. When it comes to physics, I'm practically a coot.

若要论物理领域 我算是老师傅了。

Maybe you'll be like the old coots.

许你会像老傻瓜。

" My poor Larry, you're as crazy as a coot" .

“我可怜的拉里， 你疯了” 。

The rest of the Creek considers coots almost as edible as ducks.

小溪的其他人认为黑顶鸭几乎和鸭子可食用。

It was very good, and the only time I have been able to down coot in any form.

这非常好， 是我次能够以任何形式下傻瓜。

Fred Tompkins once cooked a coot liver and gizzard pilau at the Creek.

弗雷德·汤普金斯 (Fred Tompkins) 曾经在小溪 (Creek) 烹制过白骨肝和砂胗肉饼。

Even Little Will begs off from his morning's work and goes to the hammock for squirrels or to the Creek edge for ducks or coots.

就连 Little Will 了他早上的工作， 去吊床上捉松鼠， 或者去溪边捉鸭子或白顶鸭。

Now it might be kind of " loony" or even a little " coo coo" that Doppler " coot" be swift to green graphics of almost " aunniething" that would fly.

现在，它可能是种" 疯狂" ，甚至有点“古怪" ，以至于都卜勒" 鸟" 会迅速飞向绿色图形，几乎是" 任何东西”的绿色图形。

I have followed Martha's directions faithfully, soaking the coots overnight in vinegar-water and parboiling with soda before roasting, but they still taste rankly of the marsh mud on which they have fed.

我忠实地遵循了玛莎的指示，在醋水中浸泡夜，并在烘烤前用苏打水煮沸，但它们仍然尝起来像它们吃过的沼泽泥难闻。

Only, in the distance, the palms took shape, the reeds and saw-grass stood out like the lines of an etching, and the water was a silver mirror for the ducks and coots, flying low.

只有在远处，棕榈树初具雏形，芦苇和锯齿草像蚀刻版画的线条突出，水面是低飞的鸭子和白鹭的银镜。

If the canary wouldn't sing, if the milkman was late, if the Pekinese had fleas, if an old coot in a starched collar had a heart' attack on the way to church, that was the smog.

如果金丝雀不唱歌，如果送奶工迟到，如果北京人身上有跳蚤，如果个穿着浆硬衣领的老笨蛋在去教堂的路上心脏病发作，那就是烟雾。