"They worried that grandmother would be eaten, like a hen by a big lizard; dug up, like an abandoned tomb by a wild dog; impaled, like a pumpkin on the tusk of a wild boar.
「他們擔心祖母被大蜥蜴像母雞食之，被野狗像野墳刨之，被野豬獠牙像南瓜戳之。