Boculy found so many elephants for us that we gradually became accustomed to the big beasts
鲍克里为我们找到了许多头大象，我们逐渐适应了大型动物，
and set our cameras many times for them without fear.
多次在准备摄像机时也不感到害怕了-ZGcw_yOt2^~o!lMk6v。
On one such occasion, when we were in our blind at night, a long file of elephants came down for water.
有一次在黑天，伸手不见五指，一大群大象来这里找寻水源,slg=AY5jj|e.D。
As they approached our flashlight apparatus, they stopped. For several minutes they hesitated,
当它们靠近我们的闪光灯设备时，它们停住了，它们犹豫了几分钟，
their trunks waving in the air. Then one elephant left the herd.
它们挥舞着长鼻，随后一头大象离开了象群wv~1Z!^G6N@S*。
As he moved away, he would stop every fifteen or twenty feet to wave his trunk.
当它走开后，每走15或20英尺时就会挥舞长鼻5i&xD3t+!xd2us1*Twj。
He seemed greatly puzzled and finally went back to the herd.
它似乎很是困惑，之后又回到了象群x,hiFn^n=Tb1];。

The elephants held a conference at which there was not a sound.
大象们举行了一个会议，没有一点声音v1!o!fC@J%@xDf。
Finally they went to the water by another route. We got no pictures that night.
最后，它们通过另一条道走向水边，那天晚上我们没有拍照_MP0^awRxsrItiG!O。
One old female got the habit of breaking into our vegetable garden.
一头年迈的母象已习惯闯入我们的菜园I_oYv7nf)VT6rLS。
She particularly liked sweet potatoes and was quite orderly about securing them.
她特别喜欢甜土豆，寻觅食物时显得很规矩VD89aEBB4%UJMo7bhu)M。
Every night she would pick over a space about ten square feet,
每晚，她都会找一块大约十尺见方的地方，
eating everything in that area and going away without damaging anything else.
食用那里所有的食物，离开时不会损坏其他东西c@q(Bvf44cZHj*。
We found that this old lady was entering the garden at a hole which she had made in the hedge beside a great yellow-wood tree.
我们发现这头母象是通过一个小洞进入菜园的，这个小洞是它在靠近一颗黄桑树的树篱间凿出的Xp0!a#qW9x*q!X_i[。
Here we rigged up our wires and camera with everything so set that the elephant would spring the flash light herself.
我们在这里连接好线路和照相机，一切万事俱备，这头大象会自己按下闪光灯IYb-+f;7-Fp@c48m%。