and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like egg-shells between his teeth. The mother ptarmigan beat about him with great outcry.

• 他狼吞虎咽，把它们活活塞到嘴里，像嚼蛋壳似地吃起来，母松鸡大吵大叫地在他周围扑来扑去。