No sooner did the naughty boy find himself free again, than he began to pelt the stranger with dirt and stones.

顽皮的男孩一看到自己被放了，马上就开始向陌生人投掷泥块和石头。

For the next 500 million years the young Earth continued to be pelted relentlessly by comets, meteorites, and other galactic debris, which brought water to fill the oceans and the components necessary for the successful formation of life.

在之后的5亿年里，年轻的地球继续受到彗星、陨石和银河系里其他碎块的无情撞击。这个过程产生了蓄满海洋的水，产生了成功形成生命所必不可少的成分。

Mr. Bulstrode asked, reprehensively, what the new police was doing; but a voice could not well be collared, and an attack on the effigy of the candidate would have been too equivocal, since Hawley probably meant it to be pelted.

布尔斯特罗德先生责备地问新警察在做什么。但是声音不能很好地被控制住，而且攻击候选人的肖像就太模棱两可了，因为霍利很可能是想受到攻击。