006 哈克结识新友

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I tied up the canoe in its usual place and decided to sleep in it, but I couldn't sleep much

我把独木舟系在平时停靠的地方，打算在船里睡一觉，但基本没怎么睡着。

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Every time I woke up, I thought somebody had me by the neck

每次惊醒，我都感觉好像有人掐着我的脖子。

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Finally I decided that I couldn't live this way

最后我下定决心，不能再这样提心吊胆地过日子了。

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I had to search until I found out who was on Jackson's Island with me

我必须去搜寻一番，直到弄清楚杰克逊岛上和我在一起的人到底是谁。

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I paddled my canoe along the shore of the island, keeping close to land

我紧贴着岛岸，沿着岸边划着独木舟。

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The moon shone almost as bright as day, but I didn't see anything moving on the shore

月光亮得几乎像白天一样，但岸上一点动静都没看见。

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When I got to the other end of the island, I landed the canoe

到了岛的另一头，我把独木舟靠了岸。

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By now it was almost morning. With my gun in my hand, I moved quietly through the woods to the place where I had seen the campfire ashes

这时天快亮了。我手里端着枪，悄悄穿过树林，向我之前看到篝火灰烬的地方走去。

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After a little while, I saw the light of a campfire through the trees

过了一会儿，我透过树林看见了篝火的光。

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As I crept closer, I saw a man lying on the ground with a blanket over him. It was Miss Watson's black slave Jim!

我悄悄靠近，看见一个人躺在地上，身上盖着条毯子。原来是沃森小姐家的黑奴吉姆！

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I called out," Hi, Jim!" and skipped out of the trees

我喊道：“嗨，吉姆！”然后蹦蹦跳跳地从树丛里跑了出来。

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He jumped up and stared at me wildly as if I were a ghost

他跳起来，发狂似的瞪着我，好像我是鬼一样。

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Then he moaned," Don't hurt me! I've never harmed a ghost

然后他呻吟着说：“别伤害我！我可从来没害过鬼。

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You get right back in that river again!"

你赶紧回到那条河里去！”

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I quickly made Jim understand that I wasn't dead and that I was very glad to see him

我很快让吉姆明白我没死，而且我很高兴见到他。

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I told him that I trusted him not to tell anyone where I was

我告诉他，我相信他不会告诉任何人我在哪里。

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Jim told me that he'd been on the island since the night after I was killed, with nothing to eat but berries

吉姆告诉我，从我被害那天晚上起，他就一直在这个岛上，除了浆果什么吃的也没有。

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Now he was very hungry. We walked together to my canoe

现在他饿极了。我们一起走到我的独木舟那里。

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I got out my cornmeal, bacon and coffee, a frying pan, and a coffeepot

我拿出我的玉米粉、培根和咖啡，还有一口煎锅和一只咖啡壶。

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While Jim got a fire going and cooked bacon and cornmeal, I caught a catfish

吉姆生起火，煮着培根和玉米粉的时候，我钓到了一条鲶鱼。

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Jim cleaned and fried it, and we had a delicious breakfast. Then we lay in the grass, relaxing

吉姆把鱼清洗干净并煎好，我们吃了一顿美味的早餐。然后我们躺在草地上放松。

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After a while, Jim asked who had been killed in that cabin, if it wasn't me

过了一会儿，吉姆问，既然不是我，那木屋里被杀的是谁。

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I told him the whole story of how I tricked everyone

我把如何骗过所有人的经过全都讲给他听。

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Then I asked him why he was camping on the island

接着我问他为什么会在岛上野营。

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Jim looked very uneasy and didn't say anything for a minute

吉姆看上去非常不安，好一会儿没说话。

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Then he said," You won't tell anyone about me, will you?"

然后他说：“你不会把我的事告诉别人吧？”

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I promised I wouldn't

我保证不会说出去。

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" Well, Huck — I ran away."

“好吧，哈克——我逃跑了。”

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I was shocked. Black slaves belonged to their owners

我大吃一惊。黑奴是属于主人的。

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It was against the law for slaves to run away

奴隶逃跑是违法的。

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But I would never break my promise to Jim, and I told him so

但我绝对不会对吉姆食言，我这么跟他说了。

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Then Jim explained why he had run away from Miss Watson

接着吉姆解释了他为什么从华森小姐那里逃跑。

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" Miss Watson promised that she wouldn't sell me, but I saw a slave trader at her house recently, and I began to get uneasy

“华森小姐保证过不会卖掉我，可我最近在她家看见了一个奴隶贩子，我就开始担心了。

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One night I went past the house, and I heard Miss Watson tell the Widow Douglas that she was going to sell me for eight hundred dollars

一天晚上我路过那房子，听见华森小姐告诉道格拉斯寡妇，她要以八百块钱把我卖掉。

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I didn't wait to hear any more — I just ran away down to the river

我没再听下去——就直接逃到了河边。

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I hid in a shack until morning. I thought maybe I could steal a rowboat, but there were people around all the time

我躲在一个棚子里直到天亮。我想也许能偷一艘划艇，可周围一直有人。

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I heard your Pap and other people talking about how you'd been murdered

我听见你爸和别的人说起你被谋杀了的事。

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I was very sorry to hear it, Huck

听到这事我很难过，哈克。

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I was hungry, but I wasn't afraid

我肚子饿，但不害怕。

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I knew Miss Watson and the widow were going to be out all day, so they wouldn't notice that I was gone until evening

我知道华森小姐和寡妇一整天都会在外面，所以直到晚上她们才会发现我跑了。

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When it got dark, I walked along the river until I came to a place with no houses

天黑以后，我沿着河边走，来到一个没有房子的地方。

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I realized that if I stole a boat, people would know I'd taken it

我意识到如果我偷一条船，别人会知道是我拿的。

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What I wanted was a raft of those logs that float down the river

我想要的是那种顺着河往下漂的木排筏子。

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When I saw one, I swam out to it, climbed on, and lay down on the wood

我看到一个，就游过去，爬上去，躺在木头上。

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The river was moving fast, and I expected to be forty kilometers away by morning

河水流得很急，我估计到早上就能漂出四十公里远。

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But I didn't have good luck. Men with lanterns in their boats came after me, looking for me

但我运气不好。有人提着灯笼划船来追我，在找我。

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When one of them got so close that he would see me, I slid off the raft and swam to this island

有一个人离得很近，就要看见我了，我就从木排上滑下水，游到了这个岛上。

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I decided to stay here until the men stopped looking for me

我决定待在这儿，直到那些人不找我了为止。

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I had some matches in my hat where they wouldn't get wet, so I could make a fire. I was all right."

我帽子里藏着些火柴，不会弄湿，这样我就能生火了。我就没事了。”

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Just then some young birds came along, flying short little distances and landing often

刚说着，飞来了几只幼鸟，飞一小段就落下来，一会儿一落。

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Jim said it was a sign that it was going to rain

吉姆说这是个兆头，要下雨了。

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Jim knew lots of signs. For instance, he said you shouldn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that will bring bad luck

吉姆懂好多兆头。比方说，他说不应该数晚饭要煮的东西，那会带来厄运。

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And you shouldn't shake a tablecloth after sundown

还有，太阳下山后不能抖桌布。

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" Jim, it seems as if all the signs you know are about bad luck," I said." Don't you know any good luck signs?"

“吉姆，好像你懂的这些兆头全是关于厄运的，”我说，“你就不知道什么好运的兆头吗？”

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" Very few," he replied." Why do you need to know if good luck is coming? Do you need to keep it away?"

“很少，”他回答，“你干嘛需要知道好运要来呢？你想把它赶走吗？”

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Then he told me that if a man had hairy arms and a hairy chest, it meant he was going to be rich someday

然后他告诉我，要是一个人胳膊和胸口长满毛，就说明他将来会发财。

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Jim had hair on his arms and chest, so I asked him if he was rich

吉姆胳膊和胸口就有毛，我就问他是不是富了。

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" Yes, I am, now that I think of it," he said

“是啊，这么一想，我是富了，”他说。

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" I own myself, and I'm worth eight hundred dollars, but I wish I had the money."

“我拥有我自己，我值八百块钱呢，可我倒是希望真有那笔钱。”