It was hot and sticky and the man hiding in the thorn bush was impatient and ill at ease.

天气又热又粘， 躲在荆棘丛中的那个人不耐烦， 也不自在。

He, apparently being unaware that he's in a Grimm fairy tale, fails to cover his eyes on the way down and lands in a thorn bush.

他，很显然没发现自己是在格林童话里，在落下时并未捂住自己眼睛，然后掉到荆棘丛里。

An hour earlier in its hole among the roots of the great thorn bush the scorpion had been alerted by two sets of vibrations.

一个小时前， 在大荆棘丛根部的洞里， 蝎子被两组振动惊动了。

In the echoing silence, a cricket started to zing in the thorn bush, and somewhere near at hand there was the anxious chirrup of a nightbird.

在回荡的寂静中，一只蟋蟀开始在荆棘丛中嗡嗡作响，附近某处传来夜鸟焦急的唧唧声。

The great thorn bush under which the scorpion killed the beetle was quite a landmark in the wide expanse of rolling veld some forty miles south of Kissidougou in the south-western corner of French Guinea.

在法属几内亚西南角基西杜古以南约 40 英里的广阔草原上，蝎子杀死甲虫的大荆棘丛是一个地标。

From the other he took four cheap electric torches and went off with them to where, fifty yards from the big thorn bush, there was a clear patch of flat ground about the size of a tennis court.

他从另一边拿了四支便宜的手电筒，带着它们走到了离大荆棘丛五十码远的地方，那里有一块网球场大小的开阔平地。