018 医生讲述：首日战斗的终结

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We raced through the woods toward the stockade, and we could hear the pirates running and shouting as they drew nearer

我们飞快地穿过树林，向寨子跑去，能听见海盗们一边追赶一边喊叫，越来越近了。

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Branches cracked when the pirates crossed the thicket;

海盗们穿过灌木丛时，树枝噼啪作响；

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I realized we were going to have a close brush with them, so I prepared my pistol

我意识到我们马上要跟他们短兵相接了，于是准备好了手枪。

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" Captain," I said," Trelawney is our best marksman

“船长，”我说，“特里劳尼是我们当中枪法最好的。

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Give him your gun. His gun is useless."

把你的枪给他吧，他自己的枪没法用了。”

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They exchanged guns, and Trelawney, silent and cool, checked to see that the weapon was ready to be fired

他们交换了枪。特里劳尼一言不发，冷静地检查了一下武器是否已经准备好击发。

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" Here's my cutlass, Gray," I said when I observed he was unarmed

“格雷，我这儿有把短剑，”我看他没有武器，便说道。

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He spat in his hand, knit his brows, and made the blade sing through the air

他往手心啐了口唾沫，眉头紧锁，把剑在空中挥舞得呼呼作响。

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I could see our new man would be a valuable addition

我看得出来，我们这个新伙伴会是很有用的帮手。

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Forty paces farther, we saw the stockade and approached it on the southeastern side

又走了四十步，我们看见了寨子，就从东南边靠了过去。

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Almost at the same time, seven mutineers — with Job leading them — appeared at the southwestern corner

几乎与此同时，七名叛乱者——由乔布带领——出现在了西南角。

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In the stockade, Hunter and Joyce started firing their weapons, and the squire and I stood where we were and fired too

寨子里，亨特和乔伊斯开始开火，乡绅和我也原地站定，开枪射击。

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One of the pirates fell, and the rest immediately plunged into the trees

一名海盗倒下了，其余的人立刻窜进了树林里。

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After reloading, we walked around the fence to find the fallen enemy

重新装好弹药后，我们绕着栅栏走，去找那个倒下的敌人。

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He was stone dead — shot through the heart

他已经死了——子弹打穿了他的心脏。

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We rejoiced over our good success, but at that moment, a pistol shot rang from the bushes and a bullet whistled past my ear

我们正为这次漂亮的成功而高兴，可就在这时，灌木丛中传来一声手枪响，一颗子弹呼啸着擦过我的耳边。

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Poor Tom Redruth stumbled and fell

可怜的汤姆·雷卓斯踉跄了一下，倒了下去。

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Both the squire and I returned the shot, but we were only wasting powder, so after we reloaded, we turned our attention to Tom

乡绅和我都还击了，但纯属浪费火药，所以我们重新装弹后，便把注意力转向了汤姆。

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The captain and Gray were examining him, and I immediately saw that he wasn't going to live

船长和格雷正在检查他的伤势，我一眼就看出他活不成了。

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The pirates had stopped firing, so we hoisted the gamekeeper over the stockade and carried him, groaning and bleeding, into the log house

海盗们已经停止了射击，于是我们把这位猎场看守人举过寨墙，抬着他，他呻吟着、流着血，进了木屋。

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The poor old fellow, who had never uttered one word of surprise, complaint, or fear, was laid down in the log house

那位可怜的老人从未说过一句惊讶、抱怨或害怕的话，他被平放在木屋里。

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He was the oldest among us, and now he was going to die

他是我们中最年长的，现在要离开我们了。

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The squire dropped down beside him on his knees and kissed his hand, crying

乡绅在他身边跪下，亲吻他的手，泪流满面。

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" Am I going, Doctor?" Redruth asked

“我要死了吗，医生？”雷卓斯问道。

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" Tom, my man," I said," you're going home."

“汤姆，老伙计，”我说，“你就要回家了。”

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" I wish I could have shot one of them first," Redruth murmured

“我真希望之前能先开枪打死他们一个。”雷卓斯喃喃道。

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While Tom was dying, the captain pulled a great many items out of his own pockets —

汤姆生命垂危之际，船长从自己口袋里掏出许多东西——

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two British flags, a Bible, a coil of rope, pen, ink, the logbook, and tobacco

两面英国国旗、一本圣经、一卷绳索、钢笔、墨水、航海日志和烟草。

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Outside the house, he found a tall fir tree that had been chopped down, and with the help of Hunter, he set it up at the corner of the house

在屋外，他找到一棵被砍倒的高大冷杉，在亨特的帮助下，把它竖立在木屋的角落。

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Then he climbed onto the roof and ran up the flag

然后他爬上屋顶，升起了旗子。

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Cheered by the sight of the Union Jack, the captain re-entered the log house and started counting up all the provisions

见到联合王国国旗而精神一振的船长，重新回到木屋里，开始清点所有的补给品。

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" Tom," the squire said," tell me you forgive me, won't you?"

“汤姆，”乡绅说道，“告诉我你原谅我了，行吗？”

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" There's nothing to forgive. I have great respect for you, sir... that's all, amen!" he replied and, without another word, he passed away

“没什么要原谅的。我对您怀着极大的敬意，先生……就这样吧，阿门！”他回答完之后，再没多说一个字，便咽了气。

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When Tom died, Captain Smollett came forward with another flag and reverently spread it on the body

汤姆死后，斯莫列特船长拿着另一面旗子走上前来，恭敬地将它盖在遗体上。

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" He was a good man," the captain said to the squire as he shook his hand

“他是个好人，”船长握着乡绅的手说道。

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" He died doing his duty. Let's hope we will all meet death in the same brave way."

“他尽忠职守而死。希望我们都能以同样勇敢的方式面对死亡。”

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Then the captain pulled me aside." Dr. Livesey," he said," When do you and the squire expect anyone to come for us? A few weeks?"

接着，船长把我拉到一边。“利夫西医生，”他问，“您和乡绅预计什么时候会有人来接我们？几周后吗？”

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" No, months," I replied." I told Blandly that he was to send a ship if we were not back by the end of August, but not sooner."

“不，要几个月后，”我回答，“我告诉布兰德利，如果八月底我们还没回去，就派船来，但不会更早。”

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" Well," said the captain," even if we're very lucky, I should say we are in serious trouble."

“唉，”船长说，“就算我们运气极好，我也得说，我们有大麻烦了。”

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" What do you mean?" I asked

“您的意思是？”我问道。

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" It's a pity we lost that second boatload," the captain said

“真可惜我们失去了第二船物资。”船长说。

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" As for powder and shot, we have enough

“至于火药和子弹，我们足够。

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But the food rations are short, very short — so short, Dr. Livesey, that we're better off without that extra mouth to feed."

但是食物配给短缺，非常短缺——短缺到，李沃西医生，我们少一张嘴反而更好。”

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And he pointed to the dead body under the flag

他指向旗下那具尸体。

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Just then, with a roar and a whistle, a cannonball passed over the roof of the log house and fell inside the stockade, scattering sand but doing no damage

就在这时，随着一声轰响和尖啸，一颗炮弹飞过木屋屋顶，落在寨子里，扬起沙土但没有造成破坏。

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" Captain," said Trelawney," the house is quite invisible from the ship

“船长，”特里劳尼说，“从船上完全看不见这屋子。

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It must be the flag they are aiming at. Wouldn't it be wiser to take it down?"

他们瞄准的一定是旗子。把它降下来不是更明智吗？”

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" Take down the British flag?" the captain cried." No, sir, I will not."

“降下英国旗？”船长喊道。“不，先生，我绝不。”

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As soon as he said it, I think we all agreed with him, because the flag improved our morale and showed our enemies that we despised them

他一说完，我想我们都赞同他，因为旗子鼓舞了我们的士气，并向敌人表明我们蔑视他们。

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All through the evening, they kept thundering away

整个傍晚，他们炮声不断。

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Ball after ball flew over, fell short, or kicked up the sand in the enclosure

一颗接一颗炮弹飞过，要么打得太近，要么掀起围场里的沙子。

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The pirates had to fire high, so most shots completely missed their mark or buried themselves in the soft sand

海盗们不得不仰角射击，所以大多数炮弹完全偏离目标，或者埋进了软沙里。

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The balls didn't bounce in different directions

炮弹没有四处弹跳，

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and though one popped in through the roof of the log house and out again through the floor, we soon got used to it

尽管有一颗从木屋顶穿入，又穿透地板而出，我们很快就习惯了。

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The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry:

船长坐下来写日志，以下是记录的开头：

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Alexander Smollett, captain; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner;

亚历山大·斯莫利特，船长；大卫·李沃西，船上医生；亚伯拉罕·格雷，木匠助手；约翰·特里劳尼，船主；

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John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants — being all that is left of the faithful ship's company —

约翰·亨特和理查德·乔伊斯，船主的仆人——这些是忠诚船上成员中仅剩的人——

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with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colors on the log house on Treasure Island

携带按缩减配给十天份额的补给，于今日上岸，并在金银岛木屋上升起英国国旗。

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Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy —

托马斯·雷卓斯，船主仆人，被叛乱者射杀；詹姆斯·霍金斯，船上服务生——

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As he was writing, I was wondering about poor Jim Hawkins. Just then we heard someone shouting

就在他写的时候，我在想着可怜的吉姆·霍金斯。正在这时，我们听到有人在喊。

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" Doctor! Squire! Captain! Hello, Mr. Hunter, is that you?"

“医生！乡绅！船长！喂，亨特先生，是你吗？”

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And I ran to the door to see Jim Hawkins, safe and sound, climbing over the stockade

我跑到门口，看见吉姆·霍金斯安然无恙地翻过了寨墙。