“请你驯服我吧！”他说。

"Please — tame me!" he said.

youdao

如果你想要一个朋友，那就驯服我吧。

If you want a friend, tame me.

youdao

没人能驯服我自己的舌头。

Nobody can tame their tongue.

youdao

I just feels like there's this effort of taming nature.

我只是感到人们在努力驯服自然。

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The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake.

而作者本人则是第一个为它绘制地图并为每一个自然事物,命名的人，这种讲过是可以吃的，那只身上带斑点,从我身边窜过，的动物也许能被驯服，树木之间的那个湖泊,可以叫“蛋白石湖“，或者，更艺术的，“洗盘水湖“

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