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.

就在他拋竿的一剎那，他看見那隻逃命的公鴨和緊追不捨的鷹從河灣處繞了過來。

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

他看見那驚慌失措的逃亡者一頭紮過岩架，不見了蹤影。

He saw the great hawk swoop savagely.

他看見那隻大鷹兇猛地俯衝而下。

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

他想收住這一竿，可已經太遲了。

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

偏偏最後那隻假蠅鉤恰好掛在鷹憤怒張開的喙角上，牢牢地鉤住了。

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.

那突如其來的刺痛讓大鳥扭過頭，第一次注意到了站在岸上的垂釣者。

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.

與此同時，牠感到翅膀上被那幾乎看不見的引線輕輕牽住了，另外兩隻假蠅鉤就掛在那裡。

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

喙上的拉扯和翅膀上的輕微牽制讓牠莫名其妙，也驚恐萬分。

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

一時間，垂釣者不知所措，竟像遛鮭魚一樣跟牠周旋起來。

Then the leader parted from the line.

接著，引線從釣線上斷開了。