Audiobook Dictation: “Just as he made his cast…”

Just as he made his cast, he saw the fleeing drake and the pursuing hawk come round the bend.

Au moment même où il lançait sa ligne, il vit le canard en fuite et le faucon qui le poursuivait déboucher du tournant.

He saw the frantic fugitive dive over the ledge and disappear.

Il vit le fugitif affolé plonger par-dessus la corniche et disparaître.

He saw the great hawk swoop savagely.

Il vit le grand faucon fondre sauvagement.

He tried to check his cast, but it was too late.

Il tenta de retenir son lancer, mais il était trop tard.

The last drop-fly, as luck would have it, caught just in the corner of the hawk's angrily open beak, hooking itself firmly.

La dernière mouche, comme le voulut le hasard, se prit juste au coin du bec furieusement ouvert du faucon et s'y accrocha solidement.

At the sudden sharp sting of it, the great bird turned his head and noticed, for the first time, the fisherman standing on the bank.

À cette piqûre soudaine et vive, le grand oiseau tourna la tête et remarqua, pour la première fois, le pêcheur debout sur la rive.

At the same moment he felt the light restraint of the almost invisible leader upon his wings, where the other two flies had affixed themselves.

Au même instant il sentit la légère retenue du bas de ligne presque invisible sur ses ailes, où les deux autres mouches s'étaient fixées.

The drag upon his beak and the light check upon his wings were inexplicable to him, and appalling.

La traction sur son bec et la légère retenue sur ses ailes lui étaient inexplicables, et terrifiantes.

For a moment the fisherman, bewildered, tried to play him like a salmon.

Un instant, le pêcheur, déconcerté, tenta de le fatiguer comme un saumon.

Then the leader parted from the line.

Puis le bas de ligne se détacha du corps de ligne.