Serena chose a muskrat lodge on which to build her nest.

塞蕾娜选了个麝鼠洞，在那上面造她的窝。

Say, for example, that a muskrat burrows herself a den in one bank of a stream.

比如说，麝鼠会在溪流的岸给自己挖个洞穴。

Plenty of muskrat houses. Free grain. Games every day.

到处是麝鼠窝。谷粒随便吃。有游戏玩。

And it looks like muskrat love.

人们对麝鼠肉喜爱有加。

It was the right height above the water. The muskrats had built it of mud and sticks.

这里离水的高度正好合适。这个麝鼠当初是用湿泥和树枝把洞铺成的。

Lived an old mother muskrat And her little ratties four

住只老麝鼠妈妈和四只鼠宝宝。

" I saw a muskrat, " said Sam, " and a few Red-winged Blackbirds."

“我看见了只麝鼠，”萨姆说，“还有几只红翼歌鸫。”

Laura and Mary had rabbit-skin caps, and Pa's cap was muskrat.

劳拉和玛丽戴兔皮帽，爸爸的帽子是麝鼠皮的。

Dustin, a muskrat named Vaughn, or maybe V for short.

达，只名叫沃恩的水足鼠，或者简称V。

A muskrat is drowning because he can't swim anymore.

麝鼠因无法继续游泳而溺水。

The main dish might be unusual at a Michigan group's annual dinner: a pot of muskrat meat mixed with creamed corn.

锅奶油玉米炖麝鼠。

Discharged my firearm at a muskrat yesterday.

昨我朝只麝鼠开了枪。

He shot wolves and foxes for their fur, and his traps caught beaver and muskrat and mink.

他猎杀狼和狐狸以获取它们的皮毛，他的陷阱捕获了河狸、麝鼠和水貂。

So, diet-wise, it had more in common with today's muskrat than it did with either living beaver.

所以，从饮食上看，它与今的水鼠有更多的共同点，而不是与现存的海狸。

He was trying to catch muskrats.

他想捉麝香鼠。

So what I really objected to in the sentence, we want a nerd army of muskrats, was the word want.

所以我在句子“我们想要支水鼠书呆子军队”中真正反对的是“想要”这个词。

Acting on this advice, the muskrat plunged down, then arose with his two little forepaws grasping some earth he had found beneath the waters.

麝香鼠跳了下去， 然后用两只小前爪抓住他在水下发现的些泥土站了起来。

Iroquois tradition tells us that once this earth was entirely submerged in water, and during this period for many days a busy little muskrat swam about vainly looking for a foothold of earth wherein to build his house.

易洛魁人的传统告诉我们，旦这个地球完全淹没在水中，在这段时间里，只忙碌的小麝香鼠在许多里游来游去，徒劳地寻找个可以建房子的土地立足点。

Every morning Pa took his gun and his traps and was gone all day in the Big Woods, setting the small traps for muskrats and mink along the creeks, the middle-sized traps for foxes and wolves in the woods.

早上，爸爸拿他的枪和陷阱， 整在大树林里， 在小溪边为麝鼠和水貂设置小陷阱，在树林里为狐狸和狼设置中型陷阱。