With movements as nimble and quick as those of a ravenous hunting dog, Masaowu steadies himself, stretches his bow and looses an arrow at the bird. Before the twang of his bowstring has died away, the bird's heavy body plummets straight down beside the tree trunk. Masaowu hurries across to pick up the bird, and with chest thrust forward he sets off for home, whistling as he goes.
馬掃烏像隻饑餓的獵狗般動作敏捷，迅速站穩後拉滿弓射向大鳥，箭弦彈動的聲音尚未消失，大鳥重重的肉體與樹幹平行掉下來，他趕緊拾起大鳥，抬起胸膛吹著口哨回家。