马蹄声引起了伊莎贝尔的警觉。
为了抵御潮汐，幼年马蹄蟹经常在沙子里挖洞。
In order to withstand tidal currents, juvenile horseshoe crabs frequently burrow in the sand.
令人惊讶的是，在潮汐流很弱的地方，幼年马蹄蟹的藤壶数量并不多，尽管它们很少在洞里活动。
Surprisingly, in areas where tidal currents are very weak, juvenile horseshoe crabs are found not to have significant barnacle populations, even though they seldom burrow.
例如，在意大利文艺复兴早期，有一种扬起一条前腿的青铜马雕塑，其马蹄下通常有一个炮弹。
For example, in the early Italian Renaissance, bronze statues of horses with a raised foreleg usually had a cannonball under that hoof.
他有一把用来从马蹄上取石头的带钉小刀，我帮他刻上了我名字的首字母。
He had a penknife with a spike for getting stones from a horse's hoof, and I helped him to carve my initials.
钉在房子上的七个马蹄铁可以保护房子不受任何邪恶力量。
Seven horseshoes nailed to a house will protect it from all evil.
我们生活的背景噪音是“马车队”或“夏延”的枪声和马蹄声，以及“我爱露西”或“艾德先生”的笑声。
The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses' hoofs from "Wagon Train" or "Cheyenne”, and laughter from "I Love Lucy" or "Mister Ed”.
马蹄翻飞，扬起一片尘土。
马蹄深深地陷进了松软的土里。
马蹄在泥地里留下了深深的蹄印。
皮套子被套在了马蹄上，防止它们弄脏了跑马场。
Leather overshoes were put on the horses' hooves to stop them from marking the turf.
在三个周的制作过程中，两位摄影家跨越广阔的冰岛来拍摄大地、蓝天、马蹄。
Throughout the three-weeks production, two photographers crossed the vast Iceland to shoot the land, blue sky and hooves.
进城后，父亲卖了马蹄铁，得到了一些樱桃。
After getting to town, the father got some cherries by selling the horseshoe.
在那里，农夫卖掉了马蹄铁，用几便士买了一些樱桃。
There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with a few pennies he bought some cherries.
父亲说：“看！那儿有一个马蹄铁。把它捡起来放到你的包里。”
The father said, "Look! There is a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag."
一天，农夫和他的儿子托比在进城的路上，父亲发现了一个马蹄铁。
One day, a farmer and his son Toby were on their way to town when the father found a horseshoe.
当托马斯吃完所有的樱桃后，他的父亲对他说：“我亲爱的儿子，如果你早点弯腰捡起那只马蹄铁，你就不必弯那么多次腰去捡樱桃了。”
When Thomas had eaten all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down earlier to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries."
那铁匠非常熟练地锻造马蹄铁。
尼亚加拉大瀑布共有三个瀑布：美国瀑布、马蹄瀑布和新娘面纱瀑布。
Niagara falls consists of three waterfalls: the American falls, Horseshoe falls and Bridal Veil falls.
杰克只听到他颤抖着说了声“明儿见”，然后就听到了马儿打响鼻的声音和马蹄得得远去之声。
Jack heard his spurs tremble as he mounted, the words "see you tomorrow," and the horse's shuddering snort, grind of hoof on stone.
马蹄蟹的总数已经停止减少了，甚至还有一点增加。
The horseshoe crab population has stopped crashing. It's even bounced back a little.
事实证明，红腹滨鹬没有吃到足够的马蹄蟹卵。
The knots, it turns out, aren't getting enough horseshoe crab eggs to eat.
波浪作用和附近的马蹄蟹的挖掘，使一些卵群更接近沙滩表面。
Wave action and the digging of nearby horseshoe crabs disturb many of the egg clusters, bringing them closer to the surface.
他们降低了马蹄蟹的允许捕捞量，他们禁止候鸟停留期间的任何捕捞。
They reduced the allowable harvest of horseshoe crabs, and they prohibited any harvest at all during the period when the shorebirds are visiting.
铁匠，也就是制作马蹄铁和其他金属用品的人，那个时候在当地是相当重要的人物。
A blacksmith — a man who makes horseshoes and other items from metal — was at that time quite an important part of the community.
其马蹄形散热护栅到今天仍被怀念。
他们说动物们残食同类，有烧红的马蹄铁互相折磨，并过着共妻的生活。
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes and had their females in common.
其他有趣的游戏还有滚球、草地飞镖、掷马蹄铁、飞碟和挡片。
There’s also bocce, lawn darts, horseshoes, Frisbee, and catch.
90年代，马蹄蟹的商业捕捞急剧增加了。
During the 1990s, commercial fishing for horseshoe crabs increased dramatically.
俗话说：当你听到马蹄声时应该想到的是马而不是斑马。
"When you hear hoofbeats," the old saying goes, "think horse, not zebra."
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