001 汤姆的帮派

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My name is Huckleberry Finn. If you've read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you already know about me

我叫哈克贝利·费恩。如果你读过一本叫《汤姆·索亚历险记》的书，那你已经知道我的事了。

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But if you haven't, it doesn't matter

但如果你没读过，那也没关系。

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At the end of that book, my friend Tom and I found six thousand dollars, and each of us was allowed to keep half

在那本书的结尾，我的朋友汤姆和我找到了六千美元，我们每个人可以留一半。

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Judge Thatcher invested the money for us, so Tom and I would never have to worry about not having enough money again

撒切尔法官帮我们投资了这笔钱，这样汤姆和我再也不用担心没钱花了。

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I didn't have a home, so the Widow Douglas took me in

我没有家，所以道格拉斯寡妇收留了我。

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She said she was going to civilize me

她说她要教我做个体面人。

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She made me wear new clean clothes, and sit at the table to eat my meals

她让我穿崭新的干净衣服，还要坐在桌子前吃饭。

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But I missed the way I used to live, wearing my old rags and fixing my own supper

但我还是很怀念以前的日子，穿着破旧的衣服，自己弄晚饭吃。

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The widow had a sister, Miss Watson, who was determined to teach me to spell. I couldn't help wiggling around

寡妇有个妹妹，沃森小姐，她铁了心要教我拼写。我忍不住扭来扭去。

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" Huckleberry, sit up straight!" she scolded me." Why can't you try to behave?"

“哈克贝利，坐直了！”她训斥我，“你为什么就不能试着规矩点？”

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All I could think about was how I wanted to get away

我满脑子只想着如何离开这里。

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I needed a change, but I knew the widow and her sister would never understand, so I didn't try to explain

我需要改变，但我知道寡妇和她姐姐永远不会理解，所以我没有试着去解释。

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By the time I went up to my room for bed, I felt sad and lonesome

等上楼回到房间睡觉时，我感到悲伤又孤独。

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I sat in a chair by the window and looked out at the night

我坐在窗边的椅子上，望着窗外的夜色。

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I heard an owl hooting and a dog howling

我听到猫头鹰在叫，狗在嚎。

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It sounded to me as if they were mourning for someone who had died

在我听来，它们好像在为一个死去的人哀悼。

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It scared me, and I started to tremble

这吓到了我，我开始发抖。

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Then a spider crawled up on my shoulder, and when I shook it off, it fell into my candle and burned up

接着一只蜘蛛爬到我肩上，我把它甩掉时，它掉进了蜡烛火里，烧死了。

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I knew that killing a spider could bring me very bad luck, so to keep the bad luck away, I turned myself around three times while crossing my chest

我知道打死蜘蛛会带来厄运，为了驱除霉运，我一边在胸前划十字，一边原地转了三圈。

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But I still felt afraid, and I trembled even harder

但我还是感到害怕，抖得更厉害了。

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I sat there a long time until I calmed down

我坐在那里很久，直到平静下来。

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Finally, I heard the clock in the town of St. Petersburg strike 12 times

终于，我听到圣彼得堡镇的钟声敲了十二下。

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It was midnight. A twig snapped out in the darkness, and then I heard a little " Me-yow, me-yow," down in the yard

午夜了。黑暗中传来树枝折断的声音，然后我听到院子底下传来轻轻的“喵——喵——”声。

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" Me-yow," I called back softly. Then I climbed out the window, onto the shed, and down to the ground

我也轻轻地回了一声“喵——”。然后我爬出窗户，上了棚顶，再下到地面。

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And sure enough, there was Tom waiting for me

果然，汤姆在那里等我。

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Tom and I tiptoed through the widow's garden

我和汤姆踮着脚尖穿过寡妇的花园。

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As we passed the kitchen, I tripped over a root

我们经过厨房时，我被一根树根绊倒了。

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Jim, Miss Watson's black slave, was sitting by the kitchen door when he heard the noise

沃森小姐的黑奴吉姆正坐在厨房门边，这时他听到了动静。

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" Who's that?" he called out

“谁呀？”他喊道。

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Then he came out into the garden and stood right between us

然后他走进花园，正好站在我们中间。

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Tom and I stood completely still. Jim couldn't see us in the dark

我和汤姆一动不动地站着。黑暗中，吉姆看不见我们。

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" I know I heard something," Jim said." I'm going to sit down here and listen until I hear that sound again."

“我肯定听到了什么动静，”吉姆说，“我就坐在这儿听着，直到再听到那个声音为止。”

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Well, first my ankle and my ear started to itch, and then my nose

结果，先是我的脚踝和耳朵开始痒，接着鼻子也痒了起来。

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I felt as if I'd die if I couldn't scratch, but if I did, Jim would know we were there

我觉得要是不挠一下就快死了，可一挠，吉姆就知道我们在这儿了。

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Just when I couldn't stand it any more, we heard Jim snoring. He had fallen asleep!

就在我再也忍不住的时候，我们听到了吉姆的鼾声。他睡着了！

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Before we left, Tom played a trick on Jim

离开前，汤姆对吉姆搞了个恶作剧。

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He crept over to Jim, took off his hat, and hung it on a branch

他悄悄爬到吉姆身边，摘下他的帽子，挂在了一根树枝上。

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Tom said that Jim would think witches had moved his hat

汤姆说，吉姆会以为是女巫挪走了他的帽子。

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Tom and I went into town where Ben Rogers, Joe Harper, and two or three other boys were waiting for us

我和汤姆进了城，本·罗杰斯、乔·哈珀，还有两三个男孩儿正等着我们。

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We rowed a boat about four kilometers down the Mississippi River, and came ashore

我们划船沿密西西比河往下游走了大约四公里，然后上了岸。

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There Tom led us to his secret cave, which had an entrance hidden by bushes

在那儿，汤姆领我们去了他的秘密洞穴，入口被灌木丛遮住了。

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We lit our candles and crawled through a long passageway on our hands and knees

我们点上蜡烛，手脚并用地爬过一条长长的通道。

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When we reached the cave, it was damp and cold

到了洞穴里，感觉又潮湿又阴冷。

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" We'll start a band of robbers called Tom Sawyer's Gang," Tom said

“我们要成立一个强盗帮，就叫汤姆·索亚帮。”汤姆说。

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" Everyone who wants to join must take an oath and write his name in blood."

“想加入的人都必须起誓，并用血写下自己的名字。”

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Everyone agreed. Tom got out a piece of paper and wrote down the oath

大家都同意了。汤姆拿出一张纸，写下了誓词。

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It said that we had to promise to be loyal to the band and never tell its secrets. Anyone who told would be killed

誓词上说，我们必须保证忠于帮派，永不泄密。泄密者会被处死。

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We all said it was a very good oath, and Tom said that he got the words for it from books about pirates and robbers

我们都说这誓词棒极了，汤姆说他这些词儿都是从关于海盗和强盗的书里看来的。

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Then Ben said that he thought the families of the boys who told secrets should be killed too. So Tom added that to the oath

然后本说，他觉得泄密男孩的家人也该被杀掉。于是汤姆把这条加进了誓词。

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Joe pointed out that I didn't have a family

乔指出，我没有家人。

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Tom replied that I had a father, but the others objected that he'd disappeared a long time ago

汤姆回答说我有父亲，但其他人反对，说他早就消失不见了。

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Finally, I said I was willing to give them Miss Watson to kill

最后，我说我愿意把华森小姐交给他们处置。

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Everyone agreed to that. Then we all stuck our fingers with a pin, and made a mark on the paper with our blood

大家都同意了。然后我们都用别针刺破手指，用血在纸上画了押。

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" Now," said Ben," What is our gang going to do?"

“那么，”本说，“咱们帮打算做什么呢？”

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" We're going to wear masks and stop carriages on the road," Tom explained

“我们要戴上面具，在路上拦马车。”汤姆解释道。

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" We'll kill the people and take their watches and money."

“把人杀掉，拿走他们的手表和钱。”

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It was getting very late, so we decided to meet again next week to decide which folks we would rob and kill. Then we all went home

天色很晚了，我们决定下周再碰头，商量要抢劫和杀掉哪些人。然后我们就都回家了。

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By the time I climbed in my window at the widow's house it was almost dawn

等我爬进寡妇家窗户时，天都快亮了。

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My new clothes were covered with dirt and I was very tired

我的新衣服上全是土，我也累坏了。