There they collected women as well as food and drink, and a life of ease had made them soft.

他们不仅搜刮吃的喝的，而且抢掠妇女，安逸的生活已使丹麦军队变得软弱无力。

A French physician decided to get rid of the wild rabbits on his own estate and introduced myxomatosis.

一位法国内科医生决定除掉自己庄园内的野兔子，于是引进了这种多发性粘液瘤疾病。

and slipping through we no longer take omens from their flight on this side and that; and even the most superstitious villagers no longer take off their hats to the magpie and wish it good-morning.

这些鸟对我们是有益的，虽然我们不再从它们的飞翔姿态来占卜吉凶，连最迷信的村民也不再对喜鹊脱帽行礼，祝它早安了。

A burst of activity associated with the laying of submarine cables soon confirmed the Challenger's observation that many parts of the ocean were two to three miles deep,

海洋中很多地方可深达两三英里，

and then generalized the results of his many experiments into the famous law of free fall.

然后将多次实验结果概括成著名的自由落体定律的人。

then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands.

后来却把整个故事背景换成了苏格兰高地。