Ove hears the running steps of the burglars in the snow, and realizes that they are fleeing.

欧维听见雪地上传来窃贼的脚步声，知道他们正逃之夭夭。

Thither he directed his steps, —running sometimes, and sometimes, with a strange perversity, loitering at a snail's pace, or stopping altogether and idly breaking the hedges with a stick.

他朝那里走去——有时跑，有时带着一种奇怪的任性，以蜗牛般的速度闲逛，或者干脆停下来，懒洋洋地用棍子敲断树篱。