011 家族世仇

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The dogs kept barking at me and I was afraid to move

那些狗一直对着我叫，我吓得不敢动。

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Then a man called out of the window of the house," Calm down, boys! Who's there?"

这时，房子里有个男人从窗户喊道："安静点，伙计们！谁在那儿？"

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" It's me," I said

"是我。"我说。

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" Who's me?" asked the voice

"我是谁？"那个声音问道。

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" George Jackson, sir. I'm only a boy."

"乔治·杰克逊，先生。我只是个小孩子。"

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" What do you want?"

"你想干什么？"

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" I don't want anything, sir. I only want to pass by the house, but the dogs won't let me."

"我什么也不想干，先生。我只是想从房子旁边路过，可这些狗不让我走。"

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" Why are you prowling around here at this time of night, huh?" he asked

"你大半夜的在这儿鬼鬼祟祟地干什么，嗯？"他问道。

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" I wasn't prowling around, sir." I began to make up a story in my head to tell him." I fell overboard off a steamboat."

"我没有鬼鬼祟祟的，先生。"我在脑子里编了个故事告诉他。"我从一艘蒸汽船上掉到水里了。"

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" Look here, if you're telling the truth, you needn't be afraid," said the man in a kinder voice

"听着，如果你说的是实话，你就不用害怕。"那个男人用比较和善的声音说道。

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" Nobody will hurt you." Then he shouted," Bob and Tom, wake up and fetch the guns!"

“我们不会伤害你的。”然后他喊道，“鲍勃、汤姆，都醒醒，把枪拿上！”

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I heard more people moving around in the house

我听见房子里还有人在走动。

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Then the man called out to me again

然后那个男人又冲我喊话。

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" George Jackson, do you know the Shepherdsons?"

“乔治·杰克逊，你知道谢泼德森家吗？”

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" No sir," I said truthfully." I never heard of them."

“不认识，先生，”我如实回答，“我从没听说过他们。”

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" Well, then, walk forward slowly and push the door open, just enough to squeeze in."

“那好，你慢慢往前走，把门推开，刚好能挤进来就行。”

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I took one slow step at a time

我慢慢地，一步一步地往前挪。

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As I got close to the front door, I heard the people inside unlocking it. I pushed it and stepped inside

我靠近前门时，听见里面的人正在开锁。我推开门，走了进去。

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By candlelight I could see three big men, all with guns pointed at me

借着烛光，我看见三个身材高大的男人，全都拿枪指着我。

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The oldest was about sixty; the other two were young men

最年长的那位大约六十岁，另外两个是年轻人。

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Behind them were an old lady and two younger women

他们身后是一位老妇人和两个年轻女子。

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As soon as I was inside, the old gentleman locked the door again

我一进门，老先生立刻又把门锁上了。

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Then all of us went into the parlor

然后我们所有人都进了客厅。

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They all took a good look at me and decided that I didn't look like a Shepherdson

他们仔细打量了我一番，认定我看起来不像谢泼德森家的人。

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The old lady noticed that I was all wet

老妇人发现我浑身都湿透了。

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She told her servant girl to get me some food and to wake up Buck

她叫女仆去给我拿点吃的，还让她去叫醒巴克。

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Buck came down a few minutes later, rubbing his eyes

几分钟后，巴克揉着眼睛从楼上下来了。

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He looked to be about 13 — my age

他看起来大概十三岁——跟我一样大。

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Buck took me up to his room where he gave me some dry clothes

巴克带我上楼到他房间，给了我几件干衣服。

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He told me about a rabbit he had caught in the woods

他跟我说起他在林子里抓到的一只兔子。

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Then he asked me where Moses was when the candle went out

然后他问我蜡烛熄灭时摩西在哪里。

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I said I didn't know, and he said I should guess

我说我不知道，他说我应该猜猜看。

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" How can I guess," I said," when I never heard of it before?"

“我怎么猜得出来，”我说，“我以前从没听说过这事。”

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Finally he said," He was in the dark!"

最后他说：“他在黑暗里！”

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" Well, if you knew where he was, why did you ask me?" I said

“好吧，既然你知道他在哪里，为什么还来问我？”我说。

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" It's a riddle," he said. Then he grinned at me

“这是个谜语，”他说，然后朝我咧嘴一笑。

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" Are you going to stay here a while? I hope so

“你要在这里待一阵子吗？我希望如此。

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I have a dog and we can go down to the river and have great times."

我有一条狗，我们可以去河边玩个痛快。”

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Still talking in this friendly way, he took me down to dinner

他仍然这样友好地聊着天，带我下楼去吃晚饭。

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It was the best food I had ever tasted: cornbread and butter and beef and buttermilk

那是我吃过的最好吃的食物：玉米面包、黄油、牛肉和酪乳。

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All the family members — their name was Grangerford, I soon found out — asked me questions

家里的所有成员——我很快就知道他们姓格兰杰福德——都问我问题。

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I told them I came from Arkansas, that my mother and brother and sisters were all dead

我告诉他们我来自阿肯色州，我的母亲、兄弟和姐妹都死了，

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and that my father had drowned when we both fell off the steamboat, so I had no family

而且我爸爸在我们两个从轮船上掉下去时淹死了，所以我没有任何家人。

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They said that I could have a home with them as long as I wanted

他们说只要我愿意，我可以一直和他们住在一起，有个家。

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The Grangerfords lived in a beautiful house with lots of rooms

格兰杰福德一家住在一所漂亮的房子里，有很多房间。

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Everything was kept clean and polished by all their black servants

所有东西都由他们的黑人仆人们擦得干干净净、光亮亮的。

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They had a clock on the mantel, with a china cat and dog on either side

壁炉架上有一座钟，两边各放着一只瓷猫和一只瓷狗。

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They had many books and lots of pictures on the walls

他们有很多书，墙上挂着好多画。

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Colonel Grangerford, the older man, treated his family kindly, and they loved him

年纪较大的格兰杰福德上校待家人很和善，他们也爱他。

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He and his two grown-up sons were handsome men and very well dressed

他和他的两个成年的儿子都是英俊的男人，穿着也很讲究。

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His wife was a sweet-faced kind lady

他的妻子是一位面容慈祥、心地善良的夫人。

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The two daughters were Miss Charlotte, who was proud, and Miss Sophia, who was quiet and gentle

两个女儿中，夏洛特小姐很高傲，索菲亚小姐则安静又温柔。

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I found out that the family used to be larger, but a daughter had died, and three sons had been killed

我发现这家人以前更多，但死了一个女儿，还有三个儿子也死了。

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One day Buck and I were walking in the woods when we heard a horse coming

一天，我和巴克在树林里走着，忽然听到有马过来。

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" Quick, hide!" Buck said. We hid behind a tree and saw a handsome young horseman with a gun

"快，躲起来！"巴克说。我们躲在一棵树后，看到一个带枪的英俊年轻骑手。

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I later found out his name was Harney, and he was one of the Shepherdsons

我后来知道他的名字叫哈尼，是谢泼德森家的人。

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Suddenly Buck fired his gun, right by my ear, and Harney's hat flew off his head

突然，巴克紧挨着我的耳边开了枪，哈尼的帽子从他头上飞了出去。

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Then we both ran through the woods and didn't stop until we got back to the house

然后我俩穿过树林拼命跑，直到回了家才停下。

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Colonel Grangerford scolded Buck for shooting from behind a tree

格兰杰福德上校责骂巴克不该躲在树后开枪。

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" But that's what the Shepherdsons do," Buck replied

"可谢泼德森家的人就是这么干的。"巴克回答说。

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I noticed that Miss Sophia looked very pale until she heard that Harney Shepherdson wasn't hurt

我注意到索菲亚小姐脸色很苍白，直到听说哈尼·谢泼德森没受伤才好转。

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When Buck and I were by ourselves, I asked him why he wanted to hurt Harney Shepherdson

等只有我和巴克两个人的时候，我问他为什么想伤害哈尼·谢泼德森。

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" What did he do to you?" I asked

"他对你做了什么吗？"我问。

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" He never did anything to me," Buck answered

"他从来没对我怎么样。"巴克回答。

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" Well, why did you want to shoot at him?" I asked

"好吧，那你为什么想朝他开枪？"我问。

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Then Buck told me that there was a feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons

然后巴克告诉我，格兰杰福德家和谢泼德森家有世仇。

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I had never heard this word before, so he explained that long ago, a man in one family had fought with a man in the other family, and killed him

我以前从没听过这个词，于是他解释说，很久以前，一家有个人跟另一家有个人打了起来，把他杀了。

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Then the dead man's brother shot the first man

然后，死者的兄弟又开枪打死了第一个人。

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Then all the brothers and cousins got into the fight, too

接着，所有的兄弟和堂表兄弟也都卷入了争斗。

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The feud had started more than thirty years ago

这场世仇三十多年前就开始了。

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No one could remember who had started the first fight, or what it was about. But the feud went on

没人记得是谁挑起了第一次争斗，也不记得是为了什么。但世仇就这么一直延续着。