010 迷失雾中

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Jim and I figured out that in three more days we would come to the town of Cairo, where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi

吉姆和我盘算着，再过三天，我们就会到达开罗镇，俄亥俄河就是在那儿汇入密西西比河的。

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There we could sell our raft and buy tickets for a steamboat going up the Ohio River

到了那儿，我们可以把木筏卖掉，再买船票，搭上沿俄亥俄河往上游去的汽船。

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It would take us to the North, where there was no slavery, and where Jim would be safe

那艘船会带我们去北方，那里没有奴隶制，吉姆也就安全了。

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The next night, a fog rolled in. We looked for a place on the riverbank to tie up our raft

第二天晚上，一场大雾滚滚而来。我们在河岸上找了个地方，想把木筏拴住。

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I went ahead in the canoe with the raft's towline

我带着木筏的拖绳，划着独木舟走在前面。

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I looped the line around a small tree and tied it tight, but the raft tore the tree out by the roots and kept on going

我把绳子绕在一棵小树上，紧紧地系了个扣，可是木筏把那棵树连根拔了起来，继续朝前漂去了。

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Now I was alone in the canoe, surrounded by a thick white blanket of fog

这下，就剩我一个人在独木舟里，四周被浓密的白雾像毯子一样裹着。

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After a time, I heard a voice yelling

过了一会儿，我听到有人在喊叫。

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I paddled as fast as I could toward the sound, but when I heard the voice again, it seemed to be coming from another direction

我拼了命地朝那声音的方向划去，可当我再次听到喊声时，它好像又是从另一个方向传来的。

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I paddled some more. At last I was so tired that I fell asleep in the canoe

我又往前划了一阵。到最后，我实在累坏了，就在独木舟里睡着了。

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When I woke up, the fog had lifted

我醒来时，雾已经散了。

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Ahead of me, I saw the raft, and there was Jim, asleep

在我前面，我看见了木筏，吉姆在上面睡着了。

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I got on the raft and stretched out beside him

我爬上木筏，躺在他身边。

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I said," Hey, Jim, have you been asleep?"

我说：“嘿，吉姆，你一直在睡觉吗？”

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" Is that really you, Huck?" Jim exclaimed." I thought you had drowned for sure!"

“真的是你吗，哈克？”吉姆喊道。“我还以为你准是淹死了！”

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I decided to play a joke on Jim

我决定跟吉姆开个玩笑。

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I told him that I'd been on the raft all along and that he had dreamed everything that happened in the fog

我告诉他我一直都在木筏上，大雾里发生的一切都是他做的梦。

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He said that if it was a dream, everything in it must mean something

他说如果那是个梦，梦里的一切一定都有含义。

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The riverbank with the trees, he explained, was a man trying to help us, but the river current that pulled the raft away was a man trying to harm us

他解释说，有树的河岸代表一个想帮助我们的人，但把木筏冲走的河流则代表一个想害我们的人。

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The fog meant all kinds of troubles that we'd have to steer away from

大雾意味着各种各样我们必须躲避的麻烦。

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" And what do these things stand for?" I said, pointing to the leaves and trash that had collected on the raft in the fog

“那这些东西代表什么呢？”我指着雾中落在木筏上的叶子和垃圾说。

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Jim looked at them for a long time, and then he said slowly," I fell asleep because I was so tired from calling for you

吉姆看了它们很久，然后慢慢地说：“我睡着了，因为我拼命喊你，太累了。

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I thought you were dead, and my heart was almost broken

我以为你死了，我的心都快碎了。

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When I woke up and saw you alive, I was full of joy

等我醒来，看到你还活着，我心里满是欢喜。

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But you were only thinking about how you could make a fool of me with a lie

可你满脑子只想着怎么编个谎话来捉弄我。

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So what that trash stands for is people who make fun of their friends."

所以，那些垃圾代表的就是取笑朋友的人。”

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I felt ashamed, and I told Jim I was sorry

我感到很羞愧，对吉姆说了对不起。

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I never played any mean tricks on him again

我再也不对他耍那样的卑鄙把戏了。

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The next night, as we floated down the river, we talked again about the town of Cairo

第二天晚上，我们顺河漂流时，又谈起了开罗镇。

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I was worried we might pass it in the dark

我担心我们会在黑暗中错过它。

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Jim said that if we found Cairo, he'd soon be a free man, but if we missed it, we'd still be in the South, where black people are slaves

吉姆说，如果我们找到开罗镇，他很快就能成为自由人了，但要是错过了，我们就还在南方，那里黑人还是奴隶。

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He talked about the things he would do when he reached the North

他讲起了自己到了北方之后要做的事情。

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He'd get a job and save all his money

他会找份工作，把挣的钱都攒起来。

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Then he would buy his wife from the man who owned her, so they could live together again

然后，他要把妻子从拥有她的那个男人手里买回来，这样他们就能重新生活在一起了。

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When we saw lights ahead, we tied up the raft on the riverbank

当我们看见前方有灯光时，就把木筏系在了河岸边。

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Then I took the canoe and paddled toward the town

然后我划着独木舟，朝那个镇子驶去。

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I came to a man in a rowboat, and I asked him if the town ahead was Cairo. He told me it wasn't

我靠近一个划着小船的人，问他前面的镇子是不是开罗。他告诉我不是。

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Jim was very disappointed, but we set out on the raft again

吉姆很失望，但我们还是乘着木筏再次出发了。

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Later that night we passed another town that was on high ground

那天夜里晚些时候，我们又经过一个地势很高的镇子。

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We knew there was no high ground around Cairo, so we kept going

我们知道开罗附近没有高地，所以就继续往前走了。

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When daylight came, we could see the clear water of the Ohio River near the shoreline

天亮了，我们看到岸边附近的俄亥俄河水很清澈，

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so we knew we had passed the place where the clear Ohio and the muddy Mississippi join together

所以我们知道已经过了清澈的俄亥俄河与浑浊的密西西比河交汇的地方。

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" Maybe we passed by Cairo that night in the fog," I said

“我们很可能在那晚的雾中错过了开罗，”我说。

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" Let's not talk about it, Huck," he said." It's just bad luck

“别说了，哈克，”他说，“这就是坏运气。

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I always thought that snakeskin wasn't done with us yet."

我一直觉得那张蛇皮还没折腾完我们呢。”

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" I'm so sorry I touched it, Jim!" I said

“我真后悔碰了它，吉姆！”我说。

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He told me not to blame myself

他让我不要自责。

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Now we had to turn around and go back upriver

现在我们必须掉头，朝上游返回。

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The floating raft couldn't go upriver, so we would have to go in the canoe

漂流的木筏没法逆水而上，所以我们只能坐独木舟。

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We slept all day on the shore under the trees, but when we went back to the raft in the evening, the canoe was gone!

我们一整天在岸边的树下睡觉，可傍晚回到木筏时，独木舟不见了！

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Neither of us said a word for a long while

我们俩好一会儿谁也没说一句话。

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We both thought it was the snakeskin bringing us more bad luck

我俩都认为那是蛇皮又给我们带来了厄运。

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Finally, we decided that we would have to keep going downriver on the raft

最后，我们决定只能继续乘木筏往下游漂。

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Maybe we'd come to a town where we could buy another canoe

也许我们会碰到一个镇子，能再买一条独木舟。

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We set off into the night, but the snakeskin wasn't finished with its work yet

我们出发驶入黑夜，但蛇皮的祸害还没完。

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The fog closed in around us. We could hear a big steamboat coming in the other direction, with its huge stern wheel churning and pounding

雾又围住了我们。我们听见一艘大汽船从对面开来，巨大的船尾轮搅动着水，砰砰作响。

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We lit our lantern, but the steamboat was headed right for us

我们点起灯笼，但那艘汽船正笔直地朝我们冲来。

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Jim jumped overboard off one side of the raft, and I jumped off the other

吉姆从木筏的一侧跳下河，我从另一侧跳了下去。

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The steamboat tore into our raft and kept going

汽船撞碎了我们的木筏，继续往前开了。

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When I came to the surface, I called to Jim, but I couldn't hear any answer

我浮出水面时呼喊吉姆，但听不到一声回应。

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Finally I swam to shore. Then I started walking and I came to a big log house

最后我游上了岸。然后我开始走，来到了一栋大木屋前。

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Suddenly a pack of dogs jumped out of the darkness, howling and barking at me

突然一群狗从黑暗中窜出来，对着我又吼又叫。