They peeped softly if they were left even a few inches behind.

如果它们被落下，哪怕是几英寸远，它们都轻声唧唧叫。

Take this superb long-horn that stridulates each time you touch it.

看这只天牛，每碰一下“唧唧”叫一下。

Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast.

蚱蜢在枯草丛中活跃地蹦跳，蟋蟀唧唧地叫，神话中宴会上的风笛手。

But his happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he heard someone saying: Cri-cri-cri!

可他得意了也只有一眨眼的工夫，因为他听见屋子里有声音叫：唧唧，唧唧！

While she was looking at them, she heard the mother bird chirp, as if she said, " Do not touch my children, little girl, for I love them dearly."

当她看它们时，她听到鸟妈妈唧唧地在叫，好在说：“小姑娘，不要碰我的孩子，我深深爱它们。”