When he got in, everything happened just as the old man had said it would: all the people, great and small, came round him like ants on an ant-hill, and each tried to outbid the other for the ham.

• 他进去的时候，发生的一切都和老头说的一样。所有的人，不管大人小孩，像蚁丘上的蚂蚁一样围了上来，都想以高出别人的价钱得到火腿。