The meeting place was a grassy sward dotted with pale grey mushrooms and the raw stumps of felled trees.

谈判地点乃是一片点缀着灰白蘑菇和新伐树桩的青绿草地。

Bristling and growling, he dropped to the sward just as the king ape charged.

就在猿王冲过来的时候， 他竖起毛发咆哮着倒在了草地上。

The first to fall out of the moving circle was the boys. They flung themselves down on the sward [turf], close to their underground home.

第一批掉出移动圈的是男孩们。 他们突然扑倒在草地上，这里靠近他们地底下的家。

" I may as well wash too" ; and soon his garments made a third little pile on the sward, and he too asserted the wonder of the water.

“我也洗吧”；很快他的衣服在草地上堆了第三小堆，他也宣称水的神奇。

Yet, Fortune's wheel doth oftentimes turn, and in a cruel twist of fate, a gust most mighty did wrench his crimson shield from his grasp, tossing it hither and thither across the sacred sward.

然而，命运之轮时常转动，在命运的残酷扭曲中，一阵最强大的狂风把他的深红色盾牌从他的手中夺走了，把它扔到神圣的草地上。

Upon the sward near the bushes that hid the fence, full in the glare of the moonlight, lay a white envelope that had not been there when she had turned almost upon the very spot a moment before.

在靠近栅栏的灌木丛附近的草地上，在月光的刺眼下，放着一个白色的信封，刚才她几乎就在那个地方转身时，信封还没有放在那里。

Almost before she was aware she had obeyed his mysterious influence, by giving him one hand, placing the other upon his shoulder, and swinging with him round the room to the steps she had learnt on the sward.

几乎在她意识到之前，她已经服从了他神秘的影响，一只手交给他，另一只手放在他的肩膀上，和他一起绕着房间荡来荡去，走到她在草地上学会的台阶。