Alas! not he. Again he wings his flight. The rice swamps of the south invite him.

哎呀！没有。食米鸟继续振动双翼，南方丰稻田等待着它的光临。

With us it begins about the middle of May, and lasts until nearly the middle of June.

大约五月中旬，食米鸟飞来，盘桓此地将近一月。

Of all the birds of our groves and meadows, the bobolink was the envy of my boyhood.

林莽莽草原上所有鸟类，食米鸟是我提时代最为嫉妒的鸟。

Wherever he goes, pop! pop! pop! every rusty firelock in the country is blazing away.

无论食米鸟飞到哪里，砰！砰！砰！全州老枪火钪争相对准它瞄准开火，成千上万只食米鸟不停地倒毙死亡。

The far-famed bobolink of New England migrates to Brazil, making a transoceanic flight of 700 miles from Cuba to the South American coast.

远近驰名的新英格兰的食米鸟迁徙到巴西，从古巴越洋飞行700英里到达南海岸。

Boblincoln no more, he is the reedbird now, the much-sought-for tidbit of Pennsylvanian epicures, the rival in unlucky fame of the ortolan!

不叫食米鸟，改称芦苇鸟了，居然成为宾夕法尼亚州最受热捧的小报趣闻，与伊壁鸠鲁享乐者们享有同等恶名。

The grass finches, the vireos, the wrens, and the linnets have joined their voices to the chorus, and the bobolinks are loudest in their song.

草地雀、捕虫鸣鸟、鹪鹩和红雀也加入到大合唱中，在这些歌声中属食米鸟的嗓门最嘹亮。

He arrives at that choice portion of our year which, in this latitude, answers to the description of the month of May so often given by the poets.

就地理纬度而言，食米鸟通常五月出现，诗人在五月的季节抒怀与之呼应，人们钟爱的五月阳光最终光临。