004 巧妙逃脱

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There was no way out of that cabin

那间小木屋根本没有出路。

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The window wasn't big enough for even a dog to go through, the chimney was too narrow, and the door was solid oak

窗户小得连狗都钻不过去，烟囱太窄，门是厚实的橡木做的。

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But on one wall of the cabin a blanket was nailed up to keep out the wind

但小木屋的一面墙上钉着一条毯子，用来挡风。

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I searched the cabin for a useful tool and finally found one lying on a roof beam. It was an old rusty saw

我在小木屋里寻找有用的工具，最后在房梁上发现了一把。那是一把生锈的旧锯子。

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While Pap was away, I began to saw at a log in the wall that was hidden by the blanket

趁着爸爸不在，我开始锯藏在毯子后面墙上的一根圆木。

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I was almost finished sawing through the log when Pap came back again

我快要锯断那根圆木的时候，爸爸又回来了。

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Pap made me go to the boat and get the things he had bought

爸爸让我去船上拿他买的东西。

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There was a twenty-kilogram sack of cornmeal, a big piece of bacon, and a fifteen-liter jug of whiskey

有一袋二十公斤的玉米粉，一大块熏肉，还有一壶十五升的威士忌。

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I carried the supplies to the cabin, and then I sat down on the bow of the boat to rest

我把那些东西搬进小木屋，然后坐在船头休息。

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I decided that when Pap got drunk and fell asleep I would finish sawing a hole in the cabin and run away

我决定等爸爸喝醉睡着后，就锯完小木屋的洞，然后逃跑。

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I'd take Pap's gun and I would live by hunting and fishing

我会带上爸爸的猎枪，靠打猎和捕鱼为生。

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I'd go so far away that neither Pap nor the Widow Douglas would ever find me

我要走得远远的，让爸爸和道格拉斯寡妇永远都找不到我。

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But luck didn't go my way. Instead of falling asleep after drinking his whiskey, Pap had terrible visions

可幸运没有眷顾我。爸爸喝完威士忌后没睡着，反而产生了可怕的幻觉。

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He thought that snakes were crawling all over him and biting him

他以为有蛇爬满了全身，正在咬他。

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His eyes were wild and he grabbed at the air with his hands, knocking things over

他眼神狂乱，用手在空中乱抓，把东西都撞倒了。

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Later in the night, he thought I was the angel of death

夜里晚些时候，他以为我是死亡天使。

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He chased me around the cabin with a knife until he collapsed, but in the morning, he couldn't remember anything he'd done

他拿着刀在屋里追着我跑，直到自己瘫倒。可到了早上，他完全不记得自己做过什么。

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Pap told me to go down to the river and see if we had caught any fish on our lines

爸爸让我去河边，看看我们的鱼线上有没有钓到鱼。

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I saw that the water was rising, and many logs and branches were floating down the river

我看到河水涨起来了，许多木头和树枝正顺着河往下漂。

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And then I saw a big canoe riding the waves like a duck. No one was in it

接着我看见一条大独木舟，像鸭子一样随波起伏。船上没有人。

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I waded right into the water to get it, and then I paddled it back to shore and hid it under some willow branches

我直接蹚水过去把它弄了回来，然后划回岸边，藏在了柳枝底下。

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By the time Pap came down to the river, I was taking five catfish off the fishing lines

等爸爸来到河边时，我正从钓线上取下五条鲶鱼。

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We had breakfast, and then we took a rest. I was still thinking about my escape

我们吃完早饭，休息了一会儿。我还在琢磨逃跑的事。

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I needed to make sure that Pap and the Widow Douglas wouldn't try to bring me back. And then I thought of a way

我得确保爸爸和道格拉斯寡妇不会想法子把我弄回去。接着，我想到了一个办法。

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Later that day, Pap and I saw nine logs joined together — part of a raft — coming down the river

那天晚些时候，我和爸爸看见九根圆木连在一起——是木筏的一部分——顺着河漂下来。

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We went out in our rowboat and towed them ashore

我们划着划艇出去，把它们拖上岸。

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Then Pap locked me in the cabin and went off in the rowboat, towing the logs to sell them

接着，爸爸把我锁在小屋里，自己驾着划艇，拖着圆木去卖。

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I didn't think he'd be back until the next morning

我觉得他到第二天早上才能回来。

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I finished sawing through my hidden log until I could push out a piece and escape through the hole

我把藏起来的那根圆木彻底锯透，终于能推掉一块，从洞里钻出去了。

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First I took the big sack of cornmeal down to the canoe, pushed the willow branches aside, and put the sack in the canoe

我先扛着那一大袋玉米面来到独木舟旁，拨开柳枝，把袋子放进独木舟里。

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Then I went back and forth, bringing other things from the cabin: the bacon, the jug of whiskey, and the coffee and sugar

然后我来回跑，从小木屋里搬出别的东西：咸肉、那罐威士忌、咖啡和糖。

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I also took a tin cup, two blankets, matches, and fishing lines

我还拿了一个锡杯、两条毯子、火柴和钓鱼线。

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I cleaned out that cabin. Last of all I took the gun

我把那小木屋搬空了。最后，我拿走了猎枪。

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The next thing I did was to go hunting and shoot a wild pig

接下来我去打猎，射杀了一头野猪。

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I brought its body back to the cabin

我把它的尸体带回木屋。

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Then I took the ax from our woodpile and smashed in the cabin door

然后我从柴火堆里拿起斧头，砸坏了木屋的门。

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I smeared some of the pig's blood on the floor of the cabin and on the ax

我在木屋地上和斧头上，抹了些猪血。

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I pulled a few hairs out of my head and left them sticking to the bloody ax

我从自己头上拽下几根头发，粘在那把带血的斧头上。

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I got rid of the pig by carrying it down to the river and throwing it into the water

我把野猪扛到河边，扔进水里处理掉了。

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Next I loaded a sack with stones

接下来，我往一个袋子里装满石头。

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Starting at the cabin, I dragged the sack through the dirt so that it left a trail all the way down to the river

从小木屋开始，我拖着那个袋子穿过泥地，一路拖出一道痕迹直到河边。

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I dumped the sack into the water and it sank

我把袋子扔进水里，它沉了下去。

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Then I thought of one more thing I could do

接着我想起还有一件事可以做。

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I took the sack of cornmeal from the canoe up to the cabin, where I cut a small hole in the bottom

我从独木舟里拿出那袋玉米粉，带到木屋那儿，在袋子底上割了个小洞。

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I dragged it to a nearby lake, and as I walked, I left a trail of cornmeal coming out of the hole in the bag

我把它拖到附近的一个湖边，一边走，袋子洞眼里漏出的玉米粉就留了一路痕迹。

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When I got to the lake, I tied up the bottom of the sack with string, so the cornmeal wouldn't leak anymore

到了湖边，我用绳子把袋底扎紧，这样玉米粉就不会再漏了。

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Then I carried the bag back to the canoe and climbed in

然后我把袋子扛回独木舟，爬了进去。

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I paddled a little way down the river to where some willows hung over the bank

我顺着河水往下划了一小段，来到岸边垂着柳树的地方。

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By now it was getting dark. I ate some food and rested and thought about my plan

这时候天快黑了。我吃了点东西，歇了歇，想着我的计划。

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I hoped I had made it look as if robbers had come to the cabin, broken down the door, killed me with an ax

我希望我布置的现场看起来像是：强盗来到木屋，砸坏了门，用斧头杀了我，

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and then dragged my body down to the water

然后把我的尸体拖到水里去了。

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People might look for my body in the river, but they'd soon give up

人们可能会在河里找我的尸体，但很快就会放弃。

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If they decided to chase the robbers, they'd follow the trail of grain to the lake. Meanwhile I would get away

如果他们决定追捕强盗，就会沿着玉米粉的痕迹追到湖边。这当口，我就能逃走了。

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No one would follow me; I could go anywhere on the Mississippi River I wanted

没人会跟着我；密西西比河上，我想去哪儿就能去哪儿了。

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I decided I would go to Jackson's Island, out in the middle of the river

我决定去杰克逊岛，就在河中央。

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I knew it well, and nobody ever went there

我对那地方很熟，而且从来没人去那儿。

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At night I would be able to paddle over to St. Petersburg and creep around to get the things I needed

到了晚上，我就能划船到圣彼得堡，悄悄溜达着取到我需要的东西。