Now Alfred began a long series of skirmishes -- and within a month the Danes had surrendered.

这时，阿尔弗雷德发起一连串小规模的进攻，结果不出一个月，丹麦人就投降了。

On the occasions when they have pushed to shore an unconscious human being they have much more likely done it out of curiosity or for sport, as in riding the bow waves of a ship.

当它们偶尔把一个失去知觉的人推到岸边时，更大的可能是出于好奇或游戏，就像它们追逐被船首犁开的浪花一样。

for one of the necessary conditions of preservation is quick burial,

因为保存的必要条件之一是迅速掩埋，

were portrayed to stir the imaginations of the superstitious sailors of the day.

以激起当时崇尚迷信的水手们的想像。

This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the'happy few' during the past centuries.

这说明，经过了多么漫长的时间之后，我们才认识到，有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由‘少数幸运者’所积累起来的知识。

For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books,

由于这个原因，作家喋喋不休地谈论自己的书，