008 逃离小岛

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The woman invited me into her house and said," Take a chair."

那个女人邀请我进了屋，说道：“请坐。”

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I sat down. She looked at me closely and asked my name

我坐了下来。她仔细看了看我，问我的名字。

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" Sarah Williams," I answered

“莎拉·威廉姆斯，”我回答。

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Then she asked where I was from, and I told her I came from Hookerville, about ten kilometers away

然后她问我从哪里来，我告诉她我来自胡克维尔，大约十公里远。

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I said that my mother was sick and I had come to look for my uncle, Abner Moore

我说我母亲生病了，我是来找我叔叔阿布纳·摩尔的。

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She explained that she had been living in the town for only two weeks and didn't know my uncle

她解释说她才搬到这个镇上两个星期，不认识我叔叔。

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She invited me to stay the night, but I said that I would just rest for a while and then leave

她邀请我住一晚，但我说我休息一会儿就走。

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Then she began to talk about the recent murder in St. Petersburg

然后她开始说起最近在圣彼得堡发生的谋杀案。

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" Who killed Huckleberry Finn?" I asked

“谁杀了哈克贝利·费恩？”我问。

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" Some people think it was his father," she said," and some people think it was Jim, a runaway slave

“有些人认为是他父亲干的，”她说，“也有些人认为是吉姆，一个逃跑的奴隶。”

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There's a reward for catching the slave — three hundred dollars

抓住那个奴隶有赏金——三百美元。

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After the boy was murdered, old Finn came into town

男孩被谋杀后，老芬恩来到了镇上。

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He cried and begged Judge Thatcher for some money so he could hunt for the slave

他哭哭啼啼地求撒切尔法官给他点钱，好让他去追捕那个奴隶。

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The last time anyone saw him, he was with some very tough-looking men

最后一次有人看见他时，他和几个看起来很凶悍的男人在一起。

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Some people think old Finn killed his son so that he could get his money, and that he'll come back for it."

有些人认为是老芬恩杀了自己的儿子，好拿到他的钱，而且他还会回来取那笔钱。”

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" Does that mean they've stopped hunting for the slave?" I asked

“那是说他们已经停止追捕那个奴隶了吗？”我问。

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" Oh no," she said." Some people still think Jim did it

“哦，没有，”她说。“有些人还是觉得是吉姆干的。

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And they would like that three hundred dollar reward

而且他们想要那三百美元的赏金。

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My husband and his friends are out looking for Jim right now

我丈夫和他的朋友们现在就在外面找吉姆。

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I told my husband he should look on Jackson's Island

我跟丈夫说，他应该去杰克逊岛上找找。

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I've seen smoke over there at night, and I think the slave is hiding there."

夜里我在那边看到过烟，我想那个奴隶就藏在那里。”

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I felt very nervous when she said this

听她这么说，我非常紧张。

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I needed something to do so that she would not see how scared I was

我得做点什么，这样她就看不出我有多害怕了。

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I saw some sewing supplies sitting on the table beside me

我看到旁边桌子上放着一些缝纫用品。

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I picked up a needle from the table and tried to thread it, but I didn't do a good job

我从桌上拿起一根针，试着穿线，但没穿好。

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The woman watched me, and finally she said," What's your real name? Is it Bill? Tom?"

那妇人看着我，最后她说：“你的真名叫什么？是比尔？汤姆？”

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I started to shake and didn't know what to say

我开始发抖，不知道说什么。

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But she said kindly," I think you are a poor runaway boy who has been treated badly

但她和蔼地说：“我觉得你是个可怜的离家出走的男孩，受了虐待。

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I'll keep your secret, and I'll give you some food for your journey, but I don't think you should try to pretend to be a girl

我会保守你的秘密，再给你些路上吃的食物，不过我觉得你不该再装成女孩子了。

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When you thread a needle, you are supposed to hold the needle still and bring the thread to it

穿针的时候，应该把针拿稳，把线凑过去。

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You brought the needle to the thread, and no girl would do that."

你把针往线上穿，女孩子才不会那样做呢。

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I thanked the woman and left her house as quickly as I could, running back to the canoe

我谢过那个女人，飞快地离开她家，跑回独木舟。

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I paddled over to the island and climbed up to our cave

我划到岛上，爬进我们的山洞。

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" Jim, wake up!" I cried." We have to leave right away. They're after us!"

“吉姆，快醒醒！”我喊道，“我们得马上走。他们追来了！”

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It was about one in the morning by the time we left the island

我们离开小岛时，大约凌晨一点。

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We were on the big raft we had found a few days before

我们乘的是几天前发现的那只大木筏。

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We had piled all our supplies and our canoe on it

我们把所有补给和独木舟都堆在上面。

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When daylight came, we tied the raft up on the riverbank and hid it with branches

天亮时，我们把木筏拴在河岸上，用树枝遮盖起来。

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Then we lay in the shade all day and watched the big steamboats going up and down the river

然后我们整天躺在阴凉处，看着大汽船在河上往来。

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I wondered if the men had found our campsite yet

我在想那些人是不是已经发现我们的营地了。

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Just before we left, I had built a campfire to fool them

就在离开前，我生了堆篝火骗他们。

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I hoped they had sat by it all night, waiting for Jim to come back

但愿他们整晚都守在那儿，等着吉姆回去。

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We spent every night on our raft. Jim used some planks to make a little hut for us in the middle of the raft

我们每个夜晚都在木筏上过。吉姆用木板在木筏中央给我们搭了个小棚屋。

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The hut had a raised floor, and in the middle, we made a pit and filled it with earth. Here we could build a fire if we got cold

棚屋的地板垫高了，中间挖了个坑，填上土。冷的时候我们可以在里面生火。

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Every night we traveled, floating downriver with the current

每个夜晚，我们顺着水流往下游漂。

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On the fifth night, we passed the great city of St. Louis, which looked like the whole world lit up

第五天夜里，我们经过了大城市圣路易斯，看上去仿佛整个世界都灯火通明。

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It was completely silent though — all the people were asleep

可四下里一片寂静——所有人都睡着了。

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We had lots of food to eat

我们有不少吃的。

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In the early morning, before the sun came up, I would sneak ashore into a farmer's field and take a watermelon or some corn

清晨太阳还没升起，我会偷偷上河岸，到农夫的地里拿个西瓜或掰些玉米。

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Every evening I would go into a town to buy a little cornmeal or bacon. Sometimes I shot a duck

每天晚上，我会进镇子买点玉米面或咸肉。有时我也打只野鸭。

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One night there was a big thunderstorm. We stayed inside the hut as the rain poured down on our raft

一天夜里，下起了大雷雨。我们待在棚屋里，任雨水浇在木筏上。

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Flashes of lightning lit up the river, and suddenly I saw something ahead

闪电照亮了河面，我突然看见前面有什么东西。

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It was a wrecked steamboat caught on a rock

那是一条撞在礁石上搁浅的破汽船。

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I wanted to go aboard and have a look around, but Jim was against it

我想上船去探个究竟，可吉姆不同意。

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" Maybe there's someone on board," he said

“船上也许有人，”他说。

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" No one will be on a wreck like that," I argued." And we might find some supplies on board."

“那种破船上不会有人，”我争辩道，“而且我们说不定能找到些补给。”

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We tied our raft up to the boat, and I explored it while Jim waited by the raft

我们把木筏拴在船边，我去探船，吉姆等在木筏旁。

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Suddenly I heard a frightened voice crying," Oh, please don't, boys. I swear I will never tell."

突然，我听见一个惊恐的声音喊道：“哦，求你们别这样，伙计们。我发誓绝不说出去。”