Press closer, little nightingale, cried the Tree, or the Day will come before the rose is finished.

“顶得再紧点，小夜莺，”树高声喊着，“不然, 玫瑰还未完成，天就要亮了。”

Then we heard someone whistling—beautiful like the Emperor's nightingale—and when we turned around there was Ruthie.

然后我们就听到有人在吹——美妙得像皇帝的夜莺——我们回头的时候，鹭鸶儿就在那里了。

Far away, in an orchard, a nightingale was singing.

在远处的一座果园里，一只夜莺在唱歌。

What is nightingale? No one has ever seen or heard of it.

什么是夜莺啊？可是从来没有人见过或听说过。

Because, among nightingales at least, the best singers also make the best fathers.

因为至少在夜莺当中，顶尖歌手也会是模范好丈夫。

Then the mocking-bird begins, and, like the nightingale, sings the whole night through.

然后，知更鸟就开始吟唱，像夜莺那样，整晚歌唱。

And for nightingales, it's the most elaborate song that apparently wins the day.

而至于夜莺，最精心准备的歌曲无疑能够赢得雌鸟芳心。

The rustling died away. The nightingale resumed its song.

沙沙声渐渐消失，夜莺又唱了起来。

But any Pavarotti among the nightingales will serenade his mate while she sits on her eggs.

但在夜莺这个种族里，任何一位如同帕瓦罗蒂般的男歌唱家都会在配偶孵蛋时为爱鸟哼唱小夜曲。

" I'll say 'nightingales' then, with Laurie. That's proper and appropriate, since he's a warbler."

“那么我就说‘夜莺’吧，还有劳里；这样说是得当的，因为他是一个歌手。”

One day a little girl said that she knew of nightingale.

有一天，一位小女孩说她知道夜莺是什么。

It was a nightingale doll made of jewels and gold.

这是一个由珠宝和黄金制成的夜莺娃娃。

At the same moment the nightingale, satisfied at last with his tuning up, burst into full song.

这时，那夜莺终于定准了调子，开始持续的唱起来。

Somewhere close by she heard the twitter of a nightingale beginning to sing, then stopping, then beginning again.

不远处夜莺开始唱歌，不久声音停了，而后又开始。

The emperor had never seen or heard of nightingale.

可是皇帝从来没有听说过也从没见过夜莺。

At once nightingale was brought to the emperor. The emperor was very happy.

仆人们立刻将夜莺带到皇帝面前。皇帝非常开心。

The emperor was very curious as to what nightingale was. Bring nightingale to me at once.

夜莺是什么皇帝越来越好奇。立刻把夜莺给我带过来。

Edward Bok imported English nightingales for the bird sanctuary at Bok Tower.

爱德华博克为博克塔的鸟类保护区引进了英国夜莺。

That bird you heard was the nightingale, not the lark.

你听到的那只鸟是夜莺，不是云雀。

So the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at first no one could say anything ill-humored of her.

于是那只夜莺就跳出来了。它唱得如此婉转动听，在场者都因它而心醉。一时间，没有人能说出惹公主生气的话。