012 岸边枪战

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I asked Buck whether any Grangerfords and Shepherdsons had been killed in the past few months

我问巴克，过去几个月里是否有格兰杰福特家或谢泼德森家的人被杀。

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" Oh, yes," he replied calmly," one of ours and one of theirs. We have a lot of funerals."

“哦，有啊，”他平静地回答，“我们家一个，他们家一个。我们办了不少葬礼。”

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He went on to tell me that both his brothers and his father had been wounded in battles with the Shepherdsons

他接着告诉我，他的两个哥哥和父亲都在与谢泼德森家的冲突中受过伤。

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On Sunday, I went to church with the Grangerfords

星期天，我和格兰杰福特一家去教堂做礼拜。

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The sermon was about brotherly love, but all the Grangerford men had their guns with them, and so did the Shepherdson men

布道讲的是兄弟之爱，但格兰杰福特家的男人们全都带着枪，谢泼德森家的男人们也一样。

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It was the strangest church service I had ever attended

那是我参加过的最奇怪的教堂礼拜了。

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Later that afternoon, when I was going upstairs to my room, Miss Sophia came out of her room

那天下午晚些时候，我正要上楼回自己房间，索菲亚小姐从她房间里走了出来。

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She told me in a whisper that she had forgotten her Bible in the church

她低声告诉我，她把《圣经》忘在教堂了。

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" Would you please go to the church and get it for me?" she said

“你能去教堂帮我把它取回来吗？”她说。

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Then she added," Please don't tell anyone."

然后她又加了一句：“请别告诉任何人。”

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I found the book, but it seemed odd that Miss Sophia was so nervous about a Bible, so I shook it to see if anything was inside

我找到了书，但索菲亚小姐对一本《圣经》这么紧张，似乎有些奇怪，于是我抖了抖，看看里面有没有什么东西。

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A note fluttered out that said," Two-thirty."

一张纸条飘落出来，上面写着“两点半”。

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I tucked the note back in the Bible and, when I returned, gave the book to Miss Sophia without saying anything

我把纸条塞回《圣经》里，回去后，什么也没说就把书交给了索菲亚小姐。

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She gave me a hug and told me I was the best boy in the world

她拥抱了我一下，说我是世界上最好的孩子。

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Later I decided to go for a walk by the river

后来，我决定去河边散步。

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I soon noticed that one of the house slaves, a man named Jack, was following me

我很快发现，家里的一个奴隶，一个叫杰克的男人，在跟着我。

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He asked me if I'd like to go down to the swamp and see some snakes

他问我愿不愿意去沼泽地里看看蛇。

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I thought this was strange, but I agreed and followed him into the swamp

我觉得这很奇怪，但还是同意了，跟着他进了沼泽。

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We were ankle-deep in water for a while, and then we came to a dry place

我们在齐脚踝深的水里走了一会儿，然后来到一块干地上。

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Jack said that I should go ahead while he went back to the house

杰克说我应该往前走，他要回大宅去。

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I took a few steps, pushing aside some vines, and there was Jim! I was so happy to see him

我走了几步，拨开一些藤蔓，吉姆就在那儿！见到他我真是太高兴了。

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Jim explained that he had managed to swim to shore a little while after I did

吉姆解释说，他比我晚一点儿也设法游到了岸边。

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When he saw me go into the house, he hid in the woods nearby

他看见我进了那所房子，就躲到了附近的树林里。

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The next day, he went up to some of the Grangerfords' slaves working in the fields and asked for their help

第二天，他去找了几个在地里干活的格兰杰福特家的奴隶，请他们帮忙。

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They showed him a hiding place in the swamp

他们给他看了沼泽地里的一处藏身之所。

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And then Jim told me the best news of all

然后，吉姆告诉了我一个最好的消息。

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The raft hadn't been completely destroyed by the steamboat

木筏并没有被那艘蒸汽船完全撞毁。

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He'd been repairing it, and it would be ready for travel in a couple of days

他一直在修理它，再过一两天就能上路了。

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When I woke up the next morning, the house was strangely quiet

第二天早上我醒来时，房子里静得出奇。

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I went downstairs and Jack told me the terrible news

我下楼后，杰克告诉了我那个可怕的消息。

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Miss Sophia had run away to marry Harney Shepherdson

索菲亚小姐已经私奔去和哈尼·谢泼德森结婚了。

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The Grangerford women had gone to a relative's house to get more help, while Colonel Grangerford and his three sons had rode off with their guns

格兰杰福特家的女眷去了亲戚家找更多帮手，而格兰杰福特上校带着他的三个儿子骑马带枪走了。

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They intended to kill Harney and bring Miss Sophia back

他们打算杀了哈尼，把索菲亚小姐带回来。

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I ran down the road after them as fast as I could, and before long I heard shooting

我沿着路拼命地追赶他们，没过多久就听到了枪声。

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I snuck through the trees until I came to the riverbank near a store that sold supplies to people traveling on the river

我悄悄穿过树林，来到河岸边一家向河上旅人卖东西的店铺附近。

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Men were shooting at each other along the shore and from inside the store

男人们沿着河岸，还有从店铺里边，互相开枪射击。

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I could see Buck and an older boy who was his cousin hiding behind a big woodpile

我能看到巴克和他一个年纪大点的表哥躲在一个大木柴堆后面。

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It was too dangerous to stay where I was, so I climbed a tree and hid there

我待的地方太危险了，于是我爬上一棵树，藏在了那里。

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I saw several men shot dead on both sides, and then the Shepherdson men rode away

我看到两边都有好几个人被打死了，然后谢泼德森家的男人们骑马离开了。

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I called out to Buck from the tree

我从树上朝巴克喊叫。

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Crying and cursing the Shepherdsons, he told me that his father and both his older brothers had been killed

他一边哭一边咒骂谢泼德森家，告诉我他父亲和两个哥哥全都死了。

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I asked Buck what had happened to Harney and Miss Sophia, and he said they had gotten away

我问巴克哈尼和索菲亚小姐怎么样了，他说他们已经跑了。

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He asked me to stay in the tree and watch for the Shepherdsons to ride back, and I said I would

他让我待在树上留意谢泼德森家的人骑马回来，我答应了。

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But suddenly gunfire broke out again. The Shepherdsons had circled back and snuck up on Buck and his cousin

可枪声突然又响了。谢泼德森家的人绕了回来，偷偷摸到了巴克和他表弟跟前。

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What happened next made me feel so sick I almost fell out of the tree

接下来发生的事让我难受极了，差点从树上掉下去。

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I still have nightmares about it. The Shepherdsons killed Buck and his cousin. Then they fled

我到现在还会做噩梦。谢泼德森家的人打死了巴克和他表弟，然后就跑了。

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I was so scared that I waited until it was dark before I climbed down from the tree

我吓得要命，一直等到天黑了才从树上爬下来。

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I never wanted to see the Grangerford house again

我再也不想看到格兰杰福特家的房子了。

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I blamed myself because I had brought the note to Miss Sophia

我怪我自己，因为是我把那张纸条带给索菲亚小姐的。

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Maybe if she hadn't received it, she wouldn't have run away

也许她要没收到纸条，就不会跑掉了。

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I ran back to the dry spot in the swamp to find Jim — but he wasn't there!

我跑回沼泽里那片干地方去找吉姆——可他不在那儿！

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I scrambled down to the riverbank, yelling his name

我跌跌撞撞跑到河边，大声喊他的名字。

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Then I heard a soft voice: " Is that you, Huck? Don't make any noise."

接着我听到一个轻轻的声音：“是你吗，哈克？别出声。”

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It was Jim's voice — and nothing had ever sounded so good to me

那是吉姆的声音——我从没觉得什么声音这么好听过。

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I ran a little way along the bank until I came to the raft and scrambled aboard

我沿着河岸跑了一小段，找到了木筏，就爬了上去。

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Jim and I hugged each other. Once again, he had thought I was dead

我和吉姆紧紧拥抱。他又一次以为我死了。

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Jack had told him about the gun battle, and that I hadn't come home

杰克把枪战的事告诉他了，还说我没回家。

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" Let's just leave, Jim, as fast as we can," I said

“咱们就走吧，吉姆，越快越好，”我说。

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When we were about three kilometers down the river, I began to feel safer

我们顺流而下大概三公里后，我才开始觉得安全些了。

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We hung up our lantern and ate some supper

我们挂起灯笼，吃了点晚饭。

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I was very happy to get away from the feud, and Jim was happy to get away from the swamp

我很高兴摆脱了这场家族仇杀，吉姆也很高兴离开了那片沼泽。

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We agreed there was no home as good as our raft

我们一致觉得，哪儿都没有我们的木筏好。