Lived an old mother muskrat And her little ratties four

住着老鼠妈妈和四鼠宝宝。

And it looks like muskrat love.

人们对鼠肉喜爱有加。

Plenty of muskrat houses. Free grain. Games every day.

到处是鼠窝。谷粒随便吃。每都有游戏玩。

" I saw a muskrat, " said Sam, " and a few Red-winged Blackbirds."

“我看见了鼠，”萨姆说，“还有几红翼歌鸫。”

Serena chose a muskrat lodge on which to build her nest.

塞蕾娜选了个鼠洞，在那上面造她窝。

Say, for example, that a muskrat burrows herself a den in one bank of a stream.

比如说，鼠会在溪流岸给自己挖个洞穴。

It was the right height above the water. The muskrats had built it of mud and sticks.

这里离水高度正好合适。这个鼠当初是用湿泥和树枝把洞铺成。

Discharged my firearm at a muskrat yesterday.

昨我朝鼠开了枪。

So, diet-wise, it had more in common with today's muskrat than it did with either living beaver.

因此，在饮食方面，它与今香鼠共同点多于与现存海狸共同点。

Laura and Mary had rabbit-skin caps, and Pa's cap was muskrat.

劳拉和玛丽戴是兔皮帽子，爸爸帽子是鼠皮。

He was trying to catch muskrats.

他想捉香鼠。

He shot wolves and foxes for their fur, and his traps caught beaver and muskrat and mink.

他射杀狼和狐狸以获得它们皮毛，他陷阱捕捉到海狸、香鼠和水貂。

The main dish might be unusual at a Michigan group's annual dinner: a pot of muskrat meat mixed with creamed corn.

锅奶油玉米炖鼠。

Acting on this advice, the muskrat plunged down, then arose with his two little forepaws grasping some earth he had found beneath the waters.

香鼠跳了下去， 然后用两小前爪抓住他在水下发现些泥土站了起来。

Iroquois tradition tells us that once this earth was entirely submerged in water, and during this period for many days a busy little muskrat swam about vainly looking for a foothold of earth wherein to build his house.

易洛魁人传统告诉我们，旦这个地球完全淹没在水中，在这段时间里，忙碌小香鼠在许多里游来游去，徒劳地寻找个可以建房子土地立足点。

Every morning Pa took his gun and his traps and was gone all day in the Big Woods, setting the small traps for muskrats and mink along the creeks, the middle-sized traps for foxes and wolves in the woods.

每早上，爸爸都拿着他枪和陷阱， 整在大树林里， 在小溪边为鼠和水貂设置小陷阱，在树林里为狐狸和狼设置中型陷阱。