He places a thumper in the sand and readies for the massive creature's arrival.

他在沙地上放置一个捶器，准迎接这只庞然大物的到来。

It glided across the thumper, silencing it.

它滑过捶器，使其静音。

" The sinks are only a thumper away." " The Fedaykin have raided with me, " Paul said.

“距离水槽只有一步之遥。” “Fedaykin 和我一起突袭，”保罗说。

" I planted the thumper in the deepest part of the crevasse, " Paul said.

“我在裂缝的最深处安放捶器，”保罗说。

They also used  a device called a thumper which introduces impulses of high voltage into the cable.

他们还使用一种称为重器的设，该设压脉冲引入电缆。

When he threw the latch, the thumper would begin its summons.

当他打开闩锁时，捶器就会开始召唤。

" Lump … lump… ." Renewed frenzy erupted from the distant cliff, drowning out the thumper.

“疙… … 疙… … ”远处的悬崖上爆发出新的狂热，淹没重声。

" Lump … lump … lump … lump… ." drummed the thumper.

“疙… … 疙… … 疙… … 疙… … ”捶器。

Paul stepped out of the crack, watched the sand wave recede across the waste toward the new thumper summons.

保罗走出裂缝，看着沙浪越过荒地向新的重召唤物退去。

Oh, the big, bad Bible thumpers?

那些借《圣经》的名义干涉别人生活的坏蛋吗？

Remember, a worm seldom makes an unseen approach to a thumper.

请记住，蠕虫很少会在看不见的情况下接近重者。

" The worms? " " If we were to plant a thumper from our Fremkit back in the rocks here, " Paul said.

“虫子？” “如果我们把我们的 Fremkit 中的一个重器放回到这里的岩石中，”保罗说。

Stooping, Paul planted the thumper deep into the windward face where the sand was compacted and would give maximum transmission to the drumming.

保罗弯下腰，捶器深深地插在迎风面上，那里的沙子被压实，可以最大程度地传输鼓声。

But every office has its share of keyboard thumpers, people whose goal seems to be not producing a document but destroying the equipment before one can be created.

但每个办公室都有砸键盘的人，他们的目标似乎不是创建一份文档，而是在文档还没完成的时候就把设砸烂。

A patient with heart failure (caused, for example, by a muscle-damaging heart attack) may benefit from a transplant, but there are not enough spare thumpers around for all those who need them.

心衰病人（例如，由于损害心肌的心脏病引起）可通过移植手术改善病情，但可供移植的器官太少、不能满足需求。

Paul studied the open desert, questing in his prescient memory, probing the mysterious allusions to thumpers and maker hooks in the Fremkit manual that had come with their escape pack.

保罗研究开阔的沙漠，在他的先见之明的记忆中探索，探索在他们的逃生包附带的 Fremkit 手册。

" You must stand close enough that you can mount it as it passes, yet not so close that it engulfs you." With abrupt decision, Paul released the thumper's latch.

“你必须站得足够近， 以便在它经过时可以骑上它，但又不能太近以至于它会吞没你。 ” 保罗突然决定， 释放捶器的闩锁。

" He's certainly the one Liet told us to seek." " But … a child, Stil." " The Duke was a man and this lad used a thumper, " Stilgar said.

“他肯定是 Liet 告诉我们要寻找的人。” “但是… … 一个孩子，斯蒂尔。” “公爵是个男人，而这个小伙子用的是捶器，”史第尔格说。

Until he did this thing himself, even the great southlands—the area some twenty thumpers beyond the erg—were denied him unless he ordered a palanquin and rode like a Reverend Mother or one of the sick and wounded.

在他亲自动手之前，即使是伟大的南部地区——尔格以外大约二十米的地区——也被拒绝，除非他订购一辆轿子，并像一位圣母或伤病员一样骑马。