We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken. But there was no unusual sound - nothing but the low wash of the ripple and the croaking of the inmates of the wood.

• 我们在路上没走多久，便时不时地会停下脚步，互相搀扶着，侧耳倾听，但我们没有听到任何异常的声音，只有海浪拍岸的沙沙声和林中乌鸦的啼鸣。