英语翻译
We had moved onto a propitious interface.Our social contacts were limited to the middle-class side of it,but the farther scene was sightly and the air salubrious.With my little friends new and old I had happy times exploring the great holdings,to the annoyance of the gardeners.A fierce swan with a black bulb on its forehead inhabited the Adamses’ ponds,and we would get it to chase us.It would rush over the land or water noisily flapping its great wings.It caught up with one little fellow and knocked him down.On the Markses’s grounds there were long grassy corridors between high hedges to explore.Hidden away near the Markses’ pond there was a little pump house that promptly became a storied hideway.I think that in a cosmic balance of utilities the vexations of the gardeners were outweighed by the joys of us who vexed them.It was a bright era,be it noted,before the fall of man—before malice,before vandalism.（回答基本正确者,