The standard of professional cricket has never been lower.

职业板球的水平从来没这么低过。

There was precious little about the cricket to animate the crowd.

这场板球比赛极少有让观众兴奋的地方。

During the summer term we would play cricket at the village ground.

夏季学期里我们常在村里的空地上玩板球。

At school, it simply wasn't done to show that you cared for anything except cricket.

在学校里，除了板球外，你对什么都不感兴趣，这显然不对。

Keep still, you ugly Cricket!

别动，你这丑陋的蟋蟀！

Tell me, Cricket, who are you?

告诉我，蟋蟀，你是谁？

You are right, dear Cricket.

你说得对，亲爱的蟋蟀。

The Fairy asked that Talking Cricket.

仙女问那只会说话的蟋蟀。

Sing on, Cricket mine, as you please.

继续唱吧，我的蟋蟀，随你的便。

The boy traded his knife for a cricket bat.

那男孩用他的刀子换了一个板球棒。

"Oh, my dear Cricket," said Pinocchio, bowing politely.

“哦，我亲爱的蟋蟀。”皮诺乔说着，礼貌地鞠了一躬。

He wept and wailed to himself, "The Talking Cricket was right."

他边哭边自言自语：“会说话的蟋蟀说得对。”

Pinocchio turned and saw a large cricket crawling slowly up the wall.

皮诺乔转过身来，看见一只大蟋蟀在墙上慢慢地爬。

One after another the doctors came, a Crow, an Owl, and a Talking Cricket.

医生们一个接一个地来了，一只乌鸦、一只猫头鹰，还有一只会说话的蟋蟀。

With a last weak "cri-cri-cri", the poor Cricket fell from the wall, dead!

可怜的蟋蟀发出最后一声微弱的 “唧——唧——唧” 的叫声，从墙上摔了下来，死了！

Sad to relate, my dear children, he did hit the Cricket, straight on its head.

说来遗憾，我亲爱的孩子们，他确实打中了那只蟋蟀，正好打在它的头上。

"That Marionette," continued the Talking Cricket, "is a rascal of the worst kind."

“那个木偶，”会说话的蟋蟀继续说，“是最坏的无赖。”

Now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.

这时，一只蟋蟀开始发出烦人的唧唧声，而人们根本找不到它在哪。

Father and son looked up to the ceiling, and there on a beam sat the Talking Cricket.

父子俩抬头望着天花板，一只会说话的蟋蟀正坐在一根横梁上。

"I refuse to leave this spot," answered the Cricket, "until I have told you a great truth."

“我不想离开这个地方，”蟋蟀回答说，“除非我告诉你一个大实话。”

I am the Talking Cricket and I have been living in this room for more than one hundred years.

我是会说话的蟋蟀，我在这个房间里已经住了一百多年了。

You are right, little Cricket, you are more than right, and I shall remember the lesson you have taught me.

你说得对，小蟋蟀，你说得太对了，我要记住你给我的教训。

Just because I would not listen to that bothersome Cricket, who knows how many misfortunes may be awaiting me!

就因为我不听那讨厌的蟋蟀的话，谁知道会有多少不幸在等着我呢！

Cricket keeps an off-field umpire for boundary calls, and to ascertain whether batsmen are run out and if catches are real.

板球有一个场外的裁判来判定边界，并确定击球手是否出局，接球是否真实。

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

从1917年到1975年去世前不久一直为《曼彻斯特卫报》撰稿的内维尔·卡德斯，现在仅以撰写板球运动文章而闻名。

Sri Lanka's cricket team will play India in the final of the Asia Cup.

斯里兰卡板球队将在亚洲杯决赛中与印度队交锋。

Why did Marianne name her magazine Cricket?

玛丽安为什么把她的杂志命名为《蟋蟀》？

The name Cricket became her best choice.

《蟋蟀》这个名字成了她最好的选择。

Most important, Cricket would never talk down to children.

最重要的是，《蟋蟀》杂志从不以高人一等的态度对孩子们说话。

She treasured these letters from Cricket readers, including long-ago readers.

她珍藏着《蟋蟀》杂志读者的来信，包括那些很久以前的读者。