And the valley widened out to the High Prairie once more.

山谷再次向高原延伸。

They had had a wonderful time in the creek bottoms. But Laura liked the High Prairie best.

他们在溪底度过了一段美好的时光。但劳拉最喜欢大草原。

The fire on the hearth was pleasant, for on the High Prairie even the summer nights were cool.

壁炉里的火很舒服，因为在高草原上， 即使是夏天的夜晚也很凉爽。

There was, no straw on the High Prairie, so she had filled it with dry, clean, dead grass.

大草原上没有稻草，所以她用干燥、干净、枯死的草填满了它。

Less than three miles away, in a hollow on the High Prairie, a man and his wife were building a house.

不到三英里外， 在大草原上的一个洼地里，一对男人和他的妻子正在盖房子。

One of them rode right away to fetch that family up on the High Prairie, where they would soon get well in the good air.

他们中的一个立即骑马去高草原接那家人，他们很快就会在好空气中恢复健康。

Up through the woods arid hills they rode again, to the High Prairie where the winds were always blowing and the grasses seemed to sing and whisper and laugh.

他们再次骑马穿过树林和荒山，来到高原，那里的风一直在吹， 草似乎在歌唱、低语和大笑。

As far as they could see, to the east and to the south and to the west, nothing was moving on all the vastness of the High Prairie.

就他们所见，在东边、南边和西边，广袤的高原上没有任何动静。

But they could see only the space above the bottom lands, with a few tree-tops in it, and the distant tops of the earthen bluffs under the High Prairie's grasses.

但他们只能看到洼地上方的空间，里面有一些树梢， 还有远处高原草丛下的土崖顶部。

Here on the High Prairie, the sun had cured the wild grass where it stood, and all winter the mustangs and the cow could mow their own hay.

在大草原上， 太阳晒干了原地的野草，整个冬天野马和母牛都可以自己割草。

" Where's Pa going" ? Laura asked, and Ma said, " He's going to get a load of logs from the creek bottoms" . It was strange and frightening to be left without the wagon on the High Prairie.

“爸爸去哪儿”？劳拉问，妈妈说：“他要去溪底找一车原木。”没有马车留在高原上，既奇怪又可怕。