The good woman had risen early (for as yet it was scarcely sunrise) in order to begin making a scarecrow, which she intended to put in the middle of her cornfield.

• 这有本领的女人一早就起了床（原来此刻太阳还没有升起），为的是要做一个稻草人，她打算把稻草人放到她那玉米田的中间。