The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over--very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before.

围在她周围的动物跟着唱起来，他们唱了三遍，唱得十分和谐，但却缓慢而凄然，他们以前还从没有用这种唱法唱过这支歌。