来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第9集第9集》

The story is that one

故事是一个斯巴达男孩
Spartan boy had succeeded in hunting an animal

成功地抓到了一只能用以果腹的动物
that he could eat and the animal he caught was a ferret,

那是一只雪貂
and he would have killed it and eaten it,

他正准备杀了吃
except that at just at that point

就在这个节骨眼上
the call was for them to get into formation

响起了集结的号角
and so he had to immediately get into formation,

所以他马上归队了
it would have been deadly not to do that,

要知道如果不归队的话后果是很严重的
but he didn't want to lose

但他也不想把雪貂弄丢了
the ferret so he tucked it under his cloak.

所以他把猎物藏进斗篷里
So there he is,

他就这样
standing with the other boys at complete attention,

和其他孩子一起全神贯注地站好