About midnight, hearing a strange noise like the flapping up and down of a pot-lid, he sat up in bed, rubbed his eyes, and there was the bewitched tea-kettle covered with fur and sprouting out legs.

半夜的时候，他听到一阵奇怪的响动，好像是壶盖在上下扑腾。修补匠坐起来，揉了揉眼睛，就看到那只成了精的茶釜全身长了毛，正往外伸腿呢。

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I levered the lid off the pot with a knife.

我用刀撬掉了罐盖。

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Jeff noticed steam shooting out of the pot and the lid starting to shake.

杰夫注意到蒸汽从锅里喷出来，盖子开始摇晃。

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Even the pot the cream was found in has a modern appearance, being a cylindrical metal canister with a push-on lid.

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