A ghost wearing a ruff and tights had suddenly noticed the first years.

个穿轮状皱领紧身衣幽灵突然发现了级新生。

He gasped. So did the people around him. About 20 ghosts had just streamed through the back wall. Pearly-white and slightly transparent, they glided across the room talking to one another and hardly glancing at the first years.

他吓得透不过气来，周围人也是样。从他们背后墙上突然蹿出二十来个幽灵。这些珍珠白、半透明幽灵，滑过整个房间，边交头接耳，对这些级新生很少留意。

First years should note that the Dark Forest is strictly forbidden.

级新生们请注意，黑暗森林严禁学生进入。

In " One L" , a book about his first year at Harvard Law School, Scott Turow describes the slow, arduous progress of going over his first case as " stirring concrete with his eyelashes" .

在《法学院级新生》书中，斯科特·图罗描述了他在哈佛法学院第经历，他将自己首处理案件缓慢过程描述为“用睫毛搅拌混凝土”。

" They just went past with a bunch of first-years, I bet they're testing stuff on them again, I mean, they can't do it in the common room now, can they, not with Hermione there."

“他们刚和群级新生从这里走过去，我敢说他们又在新生身上试验那些玩意儿了。我是说，现在只要有赫敏在，他们就不能在公共休息室里做这件事了。”

Most of the people watching were laughing; Hermione, however, squared her shoulders and marched directly over to where Fred and George now stood with clipboards, closely observing the unconscious first-years.

在旁观看人多数都哈哈大笑起来，赫敏则挺起胸膛，大步流星地直冲弗雷德和乔治走去，这会儿他们正拿着带弹簧夹写字板站在那里，仔细观察那些神志不清级新生。

Pearly-white and slightly transparent, they glided across the room talking to each other and hardly glancing at the first years.

这些珍珠白、半透明幽灵，滑过整个房间，边交头接耳，对这些级新生很少留意。

The first years were now moving around the castle in tight-knit groups, as though scared they would be attacked if they ventured forth alone.

级新生现在总是三五成群地紧紧簇拥在起活动，好像生怕如果他们单独行动，就会受到袭击。

He complained loudly about first years never getting on the house Quidditch teams and told long, boastful stories that always seemed to end with him narrowly escaping Muggles in helicopters.

他大声抱怨说级新生没有资格参加学院魁地奇球队，他还讲了许多冗长、自吹自擂故事，最后总是以他惊险地躲过架麻瓜直升飞机为结束。

Harry could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from a doorway to the right. The rest of the school must already be here, but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty chamber off the hall.

哈利听见右边门里传来几百人嗡嗡说话声，学校其他班级同学想必已经到了——但是麦格教授却把级新生带到了大厅另头间很小空屋里。

Malfoy certainly did talk about flying a lot. He complained loudly about first years never getting on the house Quidditch teams and told long, boastful stories that always seemed to end with him narrowly escaping Muggles in helicopters.

马尔福整天大谈特谈飞行。他大声抱怨说级新生没有资格参加学院魁地奇球队，他还讲了许多冗长、自吹自擂故事，最后总是以他惊险地躲过架麻瓜直升飞机为结束。

The first years stared at it.

级新生们愣愣地望着它。

" I can't stop you eating the stupid things yourselves, but you're not to give them to the first-years, " Fred and George looked thunderstruck.

“我不能阻止你们自己吃这些无聊玩意儿，但你们不能把它们拿给级新生。”弗雷德和乔治看样子完全被吓坏了。

“Now, form a line, ” Professor McGonagall told the first years, “and follow me.”

“现在，排成单行，”麦格教授对级新生说，“跟着我走。”

The Gryffindor first years followed Percy through the chattering crowds, out of the Great Hall, and up the marble staircase.

格兰芬多级新生跟着珀西，穿过嘈杂人群，走出餐厅，登上大理石楼梯。

Professor McGonagall was leading a long line of first years up to the top of the Hall.

麦格教授领着长长排级新生走到礼堂顶端。

First years should note that the forest in the grounds is forbidden to all pupils.

“级新生注意，校园里树林律禁止学生进入。

" Right, " said Harry, crumpling up his first attempt and lobbing it over the heads of a group of chattering first years into the fire.

“对极了。”哈利说，他把刚才绞尽脑汁思索成果揉成团，然后越过群叽叽喳喳级新生头顶，把纸团投进炉火。

Instead, a quite different voice, a brisk female one, was calling out, " First-years line up over here, please! All first-years to me! "

取代之是个完全不同声音，个活泼女子声音正在大声叫道，“请级新生到这里排队！所有级新生都到我这里来！”

" The firs' years, Professor McGonagall, " said Hagrid. " Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here."

“级新生，麦格教授。”海格说。 “谢谢你，海格。到这里就交给我来接走。”