I saw the truth of that even more when thespotted cow had her first calf.
当花牛第一次生小牛时，我更认识到这一忠告的正确。
Our milk cows were all the old kind of longhorncattle and didn’t give a lot of milk. It was veryhard to find one that would give much more thanher calf needed. We would have to milk five or sixcows to get enough milk just for the family.
我家的奶牛都是些长角的老品种，产奶不多。要想找一头喂了小牛后还有不少余奶的奶牛可真难，我们不得不挤五、六头牛的奶刚刚够我们全家食用。
But we had one cow with bent horns which didgive a lot of milk. She was called Rose. She wasgetting old，though，and Mama kept hoping eachtime she had a calf that it would turn out to be asgood a milker as Rose. Two or three of Rose”scalves didn’t have specially much milk，and then
可是我们有一头弯角牛，它的奶可真够多的。我们叫它“玫瑰”。
可是她年纪大起来了，每次她一怀胎，妈妈就盼望着这头小牛将成为“玫瑰”那样好的奶牛。可是她所生的两、三头小牛的奶也都并不特别多。后来生了这头花牛，这头牛
along came this spotted one that was big - bonedand ugly enough to make a good milk cow.
骨架大，样子丑，长大会成为一头好奶牛的。
The only trouble was that this cow. Spot，as wecalled her，had been wild as a snake from the dayshe was born. When you tried to drive her with theother cattle she’d run off and hide，When you edgedher into a corner and tried to got your hands onher，she’d turn on you and start fighting. Mamahad been trying all along to get Spot gentle beforeshe had her first calf，but it was no use. Spot didn’
t want to be friends with anybody. We knew shewas going to give us a whole lot of trouble when westarted to milk her.
我们叫它“阿花”，这头牛唯一的毛病就是一生下来就野得象条蛇。当我们想把它赶进牛群和其他的一些牛一起放牧的时候，它会逃走躲起来。当你把它赶到一个角落想把它抓住时，它就朝你冲过来，和你格斗，妈妈一直设法使它在生第一胎小牛之前变得温顺起来，但没有用，阿花不想跟任何人交朋友。
我们知道，等到要去挤它的奶时，将会是困难重重的。
One evening I couldn’t find Spot with the restof our milk cows，and when I was driving them upnext day，she still wasn’t with them.
一天傍晚，我发现“阿花”没有和别的奶牛在一起，第二天我把它们赶出去时，还是没有它。
“It’s time for he r to ca lve ，”Mama said，“a nd Ife e l sure she”s got one .”
So next morning I went into the hills andlooked everywhere. At last I found her，by a littlespring in a thick wood of bushes. I got a quick lookat the wobbly，long - legged calf that was with herbefore Spot ran for me. She chased me right to thetop of the next high hill before she turned back.
“生牛犊子的时候到了。”妈妈说。“我相信它已经生好了。”
所以第二天早晨，我到山里四处去找它。终于给我找到了，它就在密密的丛林中的一条小泉边。在“阿花”向我冲过来之前，我一眼就看见了和它呆在一起的那头摇摇晃晃的长腿小牛犊。“阿花”一直把我赶到毗邻的一座山顶上才转身回去。
I tried again. I got to the edge of the bushesand picked up some stones. I started throwing the
我又试了一次。我走到树丛的边缘，捡了几颗石子。我一面扔石
stones and yelling，trying to frighten her and thecalf out. I got her out，all right，but she wasn”tfrightened. She came straight for me，with her hornslow. I had to turn tail a second time，and again shechased me right to the top of the hill.
子一面喊叫，想把它和那头牛犊子吓出来，我确实把它引出来了，可它并不害怕。它牛角低垂，向我直扑过来。我不得不再次逃跑。它又把我一直赶到那座山上。
I tried it once more. Then I went back to thecabin and got Old Yeller. I didn’t know if he knewanything about driving cattle or not ，but I was surehe’d be able to stop her chasing me.
我又试了一次。然后我就回到木屋把阿黄找来。我不知道它会不会赶牛，但是我确信它能使“阿花”
不追赶我。
And he did. I went to the edge of the bushesand started shouting and throwing stones. Out camethe cow，angrier than ever it seemed. I yelled at OldYeller.“Ge t he r ，Ye lle r，”I shouted. And Yeller gother. He played a neat trick on that cow.
阿 黄确实阻止了它来追赶我。
我来到丛林边，开始大喊大叫，扔石块。“阿花”冲了出来，看来它比以往任何时候都恼火。我高声呼叫阿黄。
“捉住它，阿黄！”我喊道。阿黄挡住了它，跟它耍了个巧妙的花招。
I didn’t see it the first time. I was getting awayfrom there too fast. I’d hit a stone and fallen to myknees when I turned to run from Spot，and she wastoo close behind for me to look back and see whatOld Yeller was doing.
第一次我没有看清楚，我逃得太快了。当我转身逃离“阿花”时，绊在一块石头上跌了一跤，跪在地上，因为它紧紧地跟在我的后面，我顾不得回头往后看，因而没有看见阿黄在干什么。
I just heard her frightened bellow and thecrashing bushes as Old Yeller rolled her into them.
我只听到阿黄一头把它撞翻到树丛中去时阿花发出的惊叫声以及一阵劈劈啪啪的树枝断裂声。
I ran a little more before I looked back. Thecow was getting to her feet in a cloud of dust andshe looked as if she didn”t know what had
我又跑了一阵才回过头来，看到那头牛正从一片尘土中站起身来，看来它也和我一样弄不清究竟
happened any better than I did. Then she saw OldYeller. She stamped，stuck her tail in the air，andmade for him. Yeller might have been scared to bitsfrom the way he ran. Then，like a flash，he was racingback round the bushes. A second afterwards hewas coming in behind Spot.