匆匆牵来、就便拴住的母牛有的傻望着，有的躺着反刍，咀嚼着在它们被停止漫游时啃到嘴里的并不可口的东西。

• The led cows, hastily brought in and tethered to anything that would hold them, were looking stupidly on, or lying down chewing the cud of nothing particularly repaying their trouble, which they had picked up in their interrupted saunter.