So spoke the Badger, not knowing what the future held in store, or how much water, and of how turbid a character, was to run under bridges before Toad should sit at ease again in his ancestral Hall.

• 话虽是这么说，獾并不能预卜未来的吉凶祸福，也不知道要过多久，经历多少风险磨难，蟾蜍才能回到他祖传的家宅。