003 老爸的麻烦

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The window was open, so I knew Pap had climbed in using the shed

窗户开着，所以我知道爸爸是从棚屋爬进来的。

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For a while we just looked at each other

有一会儿，我们只是互相看着。

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I used to be scared of Pap all the time because he beat me so much

我以前一直很怕爸爸，因为他老是打我。

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I was scared now, for a minute, but then I looked at him more closely

那一瞬间我确实很害怕，但接着我更仔细地看了看他。

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Pap was about fifty years old now, and he looked his age

爸爸现在大约五十岁了，看起来就是这么老。

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His skin was as white as a fish belly, and he had long tangled greasy black hair

他的皮肤像鱼肚子一样白，长着又长又乱、油腻腻的黑头发。

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His clothes were just rags, and his toes stuck out through the ends of his boots

他的衣服只是些破布，脚趾头从靴子头上戳了出来。

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Finally Pap said," Those are starchy clothes you're wearing

最后爸爸说：“你穿的可是挺括的好衣服啊。

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You're educated too, they say — you can read and write

听说你还受过教育——能读会写的。

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You think you're better than your father now, don't you, because I can't read?

现在你觉得你比你爹强了，是吧，就因为我不会读书？”

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Who told you that you could do this foolishness, huh?"

谁允许你做这种蠢事的，嗯？

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" The Widow Douglas. She told me," I said

“道格拉斯寡妇。她让我去的。”我说。

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" The widow, huh? Well, I'll teach her not to interfere

“那个寡妇，嗯？哼，我得教训教训她，让她别多管闲事。

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And listen to me. You drop that school or I'll give you a beating

你给我听好了。马上退学，不然我就揍你一顿。

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I won't let people bring up a boy to think he's better than his own father! Say, let me hear you read."

我可不会让人把一个孩子养得觉得比自己的老子还强！来，读点东西给我听听。

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I picked up a book and began to read aloud

我拿起一本书，开始大声朗读。

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After half a minute, he knocked the book out of my hand

半分钟后，他把我手里的书打掉了。

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" It's true," he said." You can do it."

“是真的，”他说，“你还真会读。”

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Then he went on," I see you have a bed, a mirror, and a carpet on the floor — while your own father has to sleep with the pigs

然后他接着说：“我看你有床，有镜子，地板上还铺着地毯——可你的亲爹却得跟猪睡在一起。

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I've been in town for two days, and I keep hearing that you're rich. That's why I came."

我在镇上待了两天了，总听人说你发财了。我就是为这个来的。”

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" I don't have any money," I said

“我没钱。”我说。

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" That's a lie. Judge Thatcher is keeping it for you

“胡说，撒切尔法官替你保管着呢。

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You get me that money tomorrow. I want it!"

你明天就去把钱给我拿来。我要那笔钱！”

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Then Pap made me give him the dollar I had in my pocket

然后，老爸逼我把口袋里的一块钱给了他。

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He said he was going to town to get some whiskey

他说他要去镇上买点威士忌。

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The next day Pap was drunk. He went to Judge Thatcher's and threatened him, but Judge Thatcher wouldn't give him the money

第二天老爸喝醉了。他跑到撒切尔法官家威胁他，但撒切尔法官不肯给钱。

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Judge Thatcher and the Widow Douglas wanted to take me away from Pap and have one of them be my guardian

撒切尔法官和道格拉斯寡妇想把我从老爸身边带走，让他们中的一位当我的监护人。

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There was a new judge in court, however, who had just come to town

可是，法庭上来了位刚到镇上的新法官。

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He didn't know what my father was like

他不了解我父亲的为人。

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The judge said that the courts shouldn't split up families

这位法官说，法庭不该拆散家庭。

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He said that I had to stay with Pap

他说我必须跟爸爸待在一起。

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As soon as my father heard this, he told me that he'd beat me until I was covered with bruises unless I got him some money

我爸一听这话，就对我说，除非我给他弄到钱，否则就把我打得浑身是伤。

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I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher and gave it to Pap, and he used the money to get drunk

我从撒切尔法官那儿借了三块钱给了爸，他拿这钱去喝了个烂醉。

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Later at night he made so much noise in the street that he was arrested and put in jail for a week

到了深夜，他在街上大吵大闹，结果被抓起来关了一个星期。

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When Pap got out of jail, the new judge still thought he could help him

爸出狱时，那位新法官依然觉得能帮到他。

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He took Pap into his own home, fed him, and gave him new clothes

他把爸带到自己家里，给他饭吃，还给他新衣服。

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Pap cried and promised that he would become a better man

爸哭了，保证说自己会改好。

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The judge and his family believed him, but after a couple of days, my father traded his new coat for whiskey and got drunk again

法官和他家人都信了他，可没过两天，我爸就拿新外套换了威士忌，又喝醉了。

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He fell off the judge's porch and broke his arm in two places

他从法官家门廊上摔下来，胳膊断了两处。

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After that, the judge stopped trying to help Pap

打那以后，法官就不再管爸了。

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I still lived at the Widow Douglas' house, and I still went to school

我还住在道格拉斯寡妇家，也还去上学。

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But when Pap's arm was healed, he started chasing me again and demanding money

可等爸的胳膊一好，他又开始追着我要钱。

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If I didn't have any, he'd hit me

我要是没有，他就打我。

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So I started to borrow money from Judge Thatcher and give it to Pap

于是我开始向撒切尔法官借钱，再交给爸。

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Then he'd buy whiskey, get drunk, and be sent to jail for a few days. This went on for a while

然后他就去买威士忌，喝醉了，被关几天牢。就这样反复了一阵子。

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Finally, one day in the spring, Pap grabbed me and took me up the river in a small boat

终于，春天里有一天，爸一把抓住我，用小船把我带到了河的上游。

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We landed at a place where there were no houses — just an old log hut hidden in the woods

我们在一处没有房子的地方上了岸——只有一间藏在林子里的旧木屋。

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Pap kept me with him all the time, and I never got a chance to run away

爸一直把我拴在身边，我根本没机会逃跑。

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He always locked the door and he put the key under his head when he slept

他总是锁着门，睡觉时还把钥匙压在脑袋底下。

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We fished and hunted, and that was how we got food

我们捕鱼打猎，就靠这个弄吃的。

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Sometimes Pap locked me in the cabin and traveled down the river to a store

有时候，爸把我锁在屋里，自己顺河去下边的商店。

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There he traded our fish and the animals we killed for whiskey

在那儿，他用我们打的鱼和猎物换威士忌。

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I began to enjoy my new lazy life with no books or studying

我开始喜欢上这种不用读书学习、懒洋洋的新生活了。

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Two months went by and my clothes were all dirty rags again

两个月过去了，我的衣服又全都成了脏兮兮的破布。

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I couldn't understand how I'd ever liked my life at the widow's house, where I had to wash, eat off a plate, and go to bed at a regular time

我真不明白，我以前怎么会喜欢寡妇家的生活，在那儿又得洗澡，又得用盘子吃饭，还得按时上床睡觉。

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But Pap's behavior became worse. He beat me so much that I had bruises all over me

可爸的行为越来越恶劣。他常常打我，打得我浑身青一块紫一块。

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One time he went away and left me locked up for three days

有一次他外出，把我锁在屋里整整三天。

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I made up my mind that I would have to get away from him. But how?

我打定主意，非得从他身边逃走不可。可怎么逃呢？