This little ferret is taking us for fools. -Ferret? -Fools?

这个小雪貂想耍我们。－雪貂？－耍我们？

Why don't you look into it, have a bit of a ferret around?

你何不调查一下，四处打探（ferret 本意雪貂，打探）。

Buckbeak, bored, was ferreting for worms again.

巴克比克感到厌烦，又在找虫子了。

She has three times more genetic variation than any living ferret today.

她具有的遗传变异性是其他任何现存雪貂的三倍。

Now, can you ferret out the fairies for us?

你现在可以帮我们找到那些鬼魂吗？

My mum would be playing the guitar and my dad would be ferreting around.

我会弹吉他，我爸爸会四处瞎忙。

The experimental animals in question were ten people, eight dogs and eight ferrets.

十个人，八条狗和八只雪貂。

Behind him, Buckbeak spat a few ferret bones onto Hagrid's pillow.

在他身后，巴克比克吐了几根雪貉骨头在他的枕头上。

Ferrets would try to weasel their way out.

雪貂会想办法逃脱。

Ok. How about we get a cat or a ferret!

养猫或雪貂如何？

Some background. Black-footed ferrets have been on the endangered species list since 1967.

黑足雪貂在1967年被列入濒危物种名单。

Officials have tried vaccinating individual ferrets and they've tried treating prairie-dog burrows with flea-killer.

官员曾尝试给雪貂接种疫苗，也曾尝试往草原犬鼠的洞穴里喷洒杀蚤剂。

But it did replicate rapidly the respiratory tracts of both cats and ferrets.

但病毒确实在猫和雪貂的呼吸道内迅速繁殖。

By 1981, there was only one colony of ferrets living in Wyoming.

到 1981 年，整个怀俄明州只剩下一个雪貂群。

What screams of fear came from the surprised weasels and ferrets!

吃惊的黄鼠狼和雪貂发出了怎样的尖叫声！

There was the guy with the ferrets.

有个傢伙养了一堆雪貂。

These findings suggest that dogs experience a " runner's high" but ferrets do not.

这些发现表明狗中同样存在着" 赛跑者的亢奋" 现象，而雪貂则没有。

There were only four of them, but they seemed enormous to the weasels and the ferrets.

他们仅有四位，但在黄鼠狼，雪貂眼里他们似乎非常强大。

" it provides a promising tool for continued efforts to conserve the black-footed ferret" .

" 这继续努力保护黑足雪貂提供了一个有希望的工具。"

Back to the matter at hand, though, there is one critical difference between ferrets and cats.

回归正题，雪貂和猫有一个关键的不同之处。