“万物皆有时，蟋蟀以秋鸣。”秋天到了，蟋蟀叫得正响。爸爸拿起抓蟋蟀的工具，对我说：“走，我们去抓蟋蟀。”
“ Everything has its own time, crickets chirp in autumn. ” Autumn has arrived, and crickets are chirping loudly. Dad picked up the cricket catching tool and said to me, '; Let's go catch crickets. ”
爸爸告诉我：声音洪亮、圆润的蟋蟀一定是好蟋蟀。于是，我在草丛中仔细地辨别着蟋蟀的叫声。不久便在一块转底下听见一只蟋蟀洪亮的鸣叫声。我轻轻地把砖头翻开来，爸爸顺势用网兜抓住了那只蟋蟀，把它装进了随身携带的竹筒，第一只蟋蟀就这样被捕获了。接着，第二只，第三只……一只只蟋蟀被我们相继收入囊中。
Dad told me: Crickets with loud and round voices are definitely good crickets. So, I carefully identified the chirping of crickets in the grass. Soon, I heard the loud chirping of a cricket while spinning around. I gently flipped over the brick, and my dad grabbed the cricket with a net bag and put it into the bamboo tube he carried with him. The first cricket was caught like this. Next, the second one, the third one… … We have collected crickets one after another.
回到家，我们把竹筒里的蟋蟀倒入泥盆，三只雌的，三只雄的，今晚我们一共抓获了六只“战利品”。在灯光下，我仔细观察着它们的模样：蟋蟀都有两根长长的丝状触角，一对黑色的大眼睛嵌在脑袋两侧。它有咀嚼式的口器，大颚发达，非常善于咬斗。当它在开牙的时候，口器就像两颗黄色的大板牙。蟋蟀一共有六条腿，前面两对叫步行足，后面一对叫做跳跃足。跳跃足非常粗壮、饱满，能使蟋蟀进行爆发式的弹跳。爸爸告诉我：雄性蟋蟀只有两根尾丝，雌性蟋蟀虽然看着像有三根，其实中间那根并不是尾丝，而是一根产卵管，是雌蟋蟀生宝宝用的。
When we got home, we poured the crickets from the bamboo tube into the mud bowl. There were three females and three males, and we caught a total of six tonight; The spoils of war;. Under the light, I carefully observed their appearance: crickets have two long filamentous antennae and a pair of large black eyes embedded on both sides of their heads. It has a chewing mouthpiece, a well-developed palate, and is very good at biting and fighting. When it is opening its teeth, its mouthparts are like two large yellow teeth. Crickets have a total of six legs, with the first two pairs called walking feet and the second pair called jumping feet. The jumping feet are very thick and full, which can make crickets perform explosive jumps. Dad told me that male crickets only have two tail filaments, while female crickets may look like they have three, but the middle one is not the tail filament, but rather an egg laying tube used by female crickets to give birth.
爸爸还告诉我：蟋蟀不仅可供观赏，还可以斗蟋蟀。我们把蟋蟀放进同一只泥罐里，用长锋黄草帮助它们开牙。一开始它们不停地旋转着身体，寻找着对自己有利的位子，试探着对方，不一会儿，两只蟋蟀便激烈地打了起来。只见它们用口器互相撕咬着，几个回合过去了，第二只蟋蟀明显处于下风。它开始绕着罐子逃了起来，第一只蟋蟀仍紧追不舍，突然它一个转身将第二只蟋蟀的腿咬了下来，但那只断了腿的蟋蟀并不死心，继续向第一只蟋蟀发起进攻……又打了许久，那只断了腿的蟋蟀彻底败下阵来。获胜的蟋蟀趾高气昂骄傲地振翅鸣叫，似乎是在嘲讽败者的无能，而那只斗败的蟋蟀垂头丧气地躲在角落。
Dad also told me that crickets are not only for viewing, but also for fighting crickets. We put crickets into the same clay jar and use long tipped yellow grass to help them open their teeth. At first, they kept spinning their bodies, searching for advantageous positions and probing each other. Soon, the two crickets started to fight fiercely. I saw them using their mouthparts to bite each other, and after several rounds, the second cricket was clearly at a disadvantage. It began to escape around the jar, while the first cricket continued to chase after it. Suddenly, it turned around and bit off the leg of the second cricket, but the cricket with the broken leg did not give up and continued to attack the first cricket; … After fighting for a long time, the cricket with a broken leg was completely defeated. The winning cricket raised its toes proudly and flapped its wings, as if mocking the incompetence of the loser, while the defeated cricket hid dejectedly in the corner.
看完斗蟋蟀，我把它们分别放回不同的泥罐里。伴着蟋蟀们或长或短的“交响曲”，我很快就入睡了。
After watching the cricket fighting, I put them back into different mud jars. Accompanied by crickets, long or short; Symphony” I quickly fell asleep.