Mrs. Weasley dashed about in a bad mood looking for spare socks and quills.

韦斯莱夫人冲来冲去地寻找备用袜子和子，心情烦躁。

" Oh, look—they've got deluxe sugar quills-those would last hours! "

“哦，看——他们有高级棒糖羽毛笔——可以吮好几个小时呢！”

Your mattress was made from the ocean's softest eelgrass. Your quill pen will be whalebone, your ink a juice secreted by cuttlefish or squid.

您睡床是侮中最软和大叶海藻做。您使笔是鲸鱼触须，墨水是墨鱼或乌贼分泌汁。

Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, " Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless discuss."

哈利皱着眉头，在书页上从上而下地移动着那支羽毛笔笔尖，他正在寻找能帮助他写论文材料，论文题目是《十四世纪焚烧女巫做法是完全没有意义—— 讨论稿》。

Harry shoved his wand back inside his bag and pulled cut quill, ink and parchment.

哈利把他魔杖塞进书包，拿出了羽毛笔、墨水和羊皮纸。

Traditional quills were messy and had to be constantly dipped in ink.

传统鹅毛笔很脏，并且必须经常蘸墨才能使用。

“You — Potter — why didn't you tell him not to add the quills? Thought he'd make you look good if he got it wrong, did you? That's another point you've lost for Gryffindor.”

“波特，你为什么不告诉他不要加进豪猪刺呢？你以为他出了错就显出你好吗？格兰芬多又因为你丢了一分。”

Here are quills, take one or two.

这是漂亮纺线，拿些去吧。

Porcupines swing their tails to stick predators with their quills.

豪猪会摇尾巴来使掠自己刺给粘住。

The quill paused at the top of a likely-looking paragraph.

羽毛笔停留在一段似乎会有用文字开头。

Harry laid down his quill too, having just finished predicting his own death by decapitation.

哈利也放下了羽毛笔，他刚刚预言自己将砍头。

Other quills will describe the triumphs of the following years.

仿佛从前这些痛苦只是为了反衬他在接下来几年里取得成功。

Rita had been on the point of withdrawing an acid-green quill from her bag.

丽塔正要抽出一根绿色羽毛笔。

We've got a quill on the desk.

这里有桌上羽毛笔。

He's got your basic quill pen there.

他手里拿着一支羽毛笔。

He was a strange-looking fellow, covered with long, sharp quills.

他全身长满了长长、尖尖刺。

Dean Thomas, who was good with a quill, had offered to forge Uncle Vernon's signature on the form, but as Harry had already told Professor McGonagall he hadn't had it signed, that was no good.

迪安·托马斯长于使用羽毛笔，他曾提出让他在申请表上模仿弗农姨父签字，但是哈利已经告诉麦格教授了，说他那张表没有签字，这样做就不会有什么好处。

There was a sudden rummaging for quills and parchment. Over the noise, Snape said, " And a point will be taken from Gryffindor House for your cheek, Potter."

这时突然响起一阵摸索羽毛笔和羊皮纸沙沙声。在一片嘈杂声中斯内普说：“波特，由于你顶撞老师，格兰芬多会为此扣掉一分。”

He therefore set off along the corridor again, passing nobody but a frowning wizard who was murmuring instructions to a quill that floated in front of him, scribbling on a trail of parchment.

因此哈利又重新沿着走廊出发了，途中没有遇到什么人，除了一个正皱着眉头小声地向一支漂浮在他面前羽毛笔发出指令男巫，而那支羽毛笔正在一卷羊皮纸上胡乱涂写着什么。

By virtue thereof, it is true that the need for mutual warmth will be only imperfectly satisfied, but on the other hand, the prick of the quills will not be felt. End quote.

因此，相互温暖需求确实只能得到不完美满足，但另一方面，刺刺痛感却不会感觉到。