002 小人国的囚徒

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When I woke up the next morning, I couldn't move

第二天早上醒来时，我动弹不得。

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" I must still be tired from all that swimming," I thought

“我一定是游泳游得太累了，”我想。

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But soon I discovered why I couldn't move

但很快我就发现了我为什么不能动。

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My body, arms, and legs were tied to the ground

我的身体、胳膊和腿都被绑在地上。

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Even my hair, which was long and thick, was tied down

就连我又长又密的头发也被绑住了。

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I couldn't even move my head

我连头都动不了。

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" How strange," I said to myself

“真奇怪，”我自言自语道。

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" I must be dreaming."

“我一定是在做梦。”

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The sun grew hot and shone in my eyes

太阳越来越热，阳光刺得我眼睛发疼。

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All I could see was the sky

我能看到的只有天空。

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Soon, I felt something crawling on my left leg

很快，我感到有东西在我左腿上爬。

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" It must be a bug," I thought

“肯定是一只虫子。”我想。

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It moved up my body almost to my chin

它沿着我的身体往上爬，几乎到了我的下巴。

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I looked down and, to my great surprise, saw a tiny man standing on my chest!

我低头一看，真是大吃一惊，一个极小的人就站在我的胸口！

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He was about as big as my thumb, no more than 15 centimeters tall

他大概只有我的拇指那么大，最多15厘米高。

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In his hands, he held a bow and arrows

他手里拿着弓箭。

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I felt many more little men crawling over me

我感到还有更多的小人在我身上爬。

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In astonishment, I shouted very loudly

我惊愕地大喊了一声，

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" Get off me, you insects!"

“从我身上下去，你们这些虫子！”

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They all jumped in alarm and screamed in terror

他们全都惊慌地跳了起来，恐惧地尖叫起来。

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Some of the little men fell right off my body

有几个小人直接从我的身上掉了下去。

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I tried to loosen the ropes that held me down

我试图松开绑住我的绳子。

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Although the ropes were very thin, like thread, there were hundreds of them

虽然绳子细得像线一样，但数量有成百上千根。

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Finally, I was able to free my left arm

最后，我终于能挣脱我的左臂了。

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The tiny men began to shoot arrows at me

那些小人们开始向我射箭。

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Several arrows landed on my hand

有几支箭落在了我的手上。

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Others hit my face and chest

其他的箭射中了我的脸和胸口。

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" Stop that. It hurts!" I cried out

“快停下，疼死了！”我大喊道。

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I decided to lie still and see what would happen next

我决定躺着不动，看看接下来会发生什么。

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The little people gradually became brave and came near me

小人们逐渐变得勇敢起来，开始向我靠近。

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They built a platform beside my head

他们在我头旁边搭了个台子。

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One of them, an official of some kind, climbed onto the platform

其中一个人，像是某种官员，爬上了台子。

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He started speaking to me, but his language was not like any language I had heard before

他开始对我说话，但他的语言不像我以前听过的任何语言。

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The little men seemed friendly now

这些小人现在看起来挺友好的。

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" I'm so hungry!" I said, but they didn't understand me

“我好饿！”我说，但他们听不懂。

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With my free hand, I used signs to ask for food

我用没被绑住的那只手，做手势要食物。

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The men brought me baskets of many different foods

那些人给我拿来一篮篮各种各样的食物。

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I also drank two barrels of wine

我还喝了两桶酒。

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Another official spoke to me, making signs with his hands as he talked

另一个官员对我说话，一边说一边用手比划着。

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I understood that they were going to take me to another place

我明白了他们要把我带到另一个地方去。

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I fell asleep again

我又睡着了。

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Later, I found out that the wine had contained something to make me sleep

后来，我发现酒里掺了让人睡觉的东西。

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I also learned about the island and what had happened while I slept

我也得知了关于这个岛的情况，以及我睡着时发生的事情。

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The island was called Lilliput

这个岛叫小人国。

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Its king lived in a castle in Mildendo, the capital city, which had high walls around it

它的国王住在首都米尔登多的一座城堡里，城堡四周有高墙。

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The people made a huge cart and put me on it when I was asleep

人们造了一辆巨大的车，趁我睡着时把我放了上去。

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I found out that it took nine hundred men to lift me onto the cart

我发现，他们动用了九百个人才把我抬上车。

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Fifteen hundred Lilliputian horses were needed to pull it

需要一千五百匹小人国的马来拉车。

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When we arrived near the city, the guards attached many chains to my ankle

我们到达城市附近时，卫兵们在我的脚踝上拴了很多锁链。

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Then they cut the ropes that tied me down

然后他们割断了绑着我的绳子。

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At last, I was able to stand up and stretch

我终于能站起来伸展一下身体了。

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But because of the chains, I could not move about much

但因为这些锁链，我没法怎么走动。

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We were near a very large building just outside the gates of Mildendo

我们在米尔登多城门外一座非常大的建筑附近。

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" Well," I thought," it seems this building is to be my home."

“好吧，”我想，“看来这座建筑就是我的家了。”

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It was big enough for me to crawl into and lie down inside it

它大到能让我爬进去，在里面躺下。

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From outside my new home, I had a good view of the countryside

从我的新家外面，我能清楚地看到乡村的景色。

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The fields were tiny, like small flower beds in my garden in England

那些田地非常小，就像我在英格兰花园里的小花圃一样。

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Even the tallest trees were only about two meters high

就连最高的树也只有大概两米高。

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Lilliput was a beautiful place, and everything in it was unbelievably tiny

小人国是个美丽的地方，里面的一切都小得令人难以置信。