Ch6-Port Safety

CHAPTER SIX Port Safety Annie banged on the wooden door. A moment later, it opened. "Gunnar?" a man said, peering into the snowstorm. "No!" Annie shouted. "The ice cracked and my brother fell through! His feet are soaking wet! Can you help us?" "Hurry! Get inside!" the man said. With Annie's help, Jack limped into the warm, firelit cabin. He took off his mittens and wiped snow and ice from his glasses.

第六章港口安全安妮重重地敲着木门。 过了一会儿，门开了。 “加纳？”一个男人盯着风雪说。 “不!”安妮喊道。“冰裂开了，我弟弟掉下去了！”他的脚湿透了！你能帮助我们吗？”“快点!进去！”那人说。 在安妮的帮助下，杰克一瘸一拐地走进了温暖的壁炉小屋。 他摘下连指手套，擦去眼镜上的冰雪。

"Sit near the stove!" the man commanded. "I'll heat some water!" Annie helped Jack out of his parka, and he sat on a wooden chair near a crackling woodstove. "Take off his boots!" the man said. Annie helped Jack pull off his fur boots and wool socks, then set them near the stove. The man grabbed a kettle from the top of the woodstove and poured water into a bucket. Jack looked at his wet feet. They were white and numb from the cold. He couldn't move his toes. "How are they?" the man said, lugging the bucket to Jack. "N-not bad," Jack said. He was still trembling from the cold. "Not good," said the man, looking at Jack's feet. He set the bucket down in front of Jack. "Soak them awhile." "Thanks," said Jack. As he put his feet into the warm water, he was overcome with pain. He started to pull them out, but the man stopped him.

“坐在炉子旁边！”那人命令道。 “我来热点水！”安妮帮杰克脱下派克大衣，杰克坐在一张木椅上，旁边是一个劈啪作响的柴炉。 “脱掉他的靴子！”那人说。 安妮帮杰克脱下皮靴和羊毛袜，然后把它们放在火炉旁。 那人从柴炉上抓起一个水壶，把水倒进一个桶里。 杰克看着自己湿漉漉的脚。 他们冻得发白，麻木了。 他的脚趾动不了。 “他们怎么样了？”那人说着，把水桶拖到杰克面前。 “还不错，”杰克说。他冻得还在发抖。 “不太好，”那人看着杰克的脚说。 他把水桶放在杰克面前。 “浸泡一会儿。”“谢谢，”杰克说。 当他把脚放进温水里时，他感到一阵剧痛。 他想把它们拔出来，但那人阻止了他。

"Keep 'em there, kid," he said. "Okay," said Jack, gritting his teeth. Listening to the howling wind and the snow pelting the cabin windows, he worried about the huskies. "Can—can we bring our dog team inside?" he asked. "Sure, I'll unhitch them from their harnesses. You stay here and soak your feet," the man said. Then he threw on a parka and hurried outside to get the dogs. "I'll help him," Annie said to Jack. "Don't move." And she followed the man back into the storm. As Jack sat alone in the one-room cabin and soaked his feet, he worried about the time. He looked around for a clock but didn't see one. How long would it take for his boots to dry? he wondered. Would his feet be okay? Did the dogs have frostbite, too? Jack was glad when the door opened. "Everyone in!" Annie shouted. Hauling the sack of dried fish with her, she led the huskies inside.

“把它们放在那儿，孩子。”他说。 “好吧，”杰克咬紧牙关说。 听着呼啸的风声和雪打在小屋窗户上的声音，他开始担心哈士奇。 “我们能——能把我们的狗队带进来吗？”他问。 “当然，我会把它们从挽具上解开。 你呆在这儿，泡你的脚，”那人说。 然后他匆匆穿上大衣，跑到外面去抓狗。 “我会帮助他的，”安妮对杰克说。 “不要动。”她跟着那个男人回到了暴风雨中。 杰克独自坐在只有一个房间的小木屋里，泡着脚，他担心时间。 他环顾四周找钟，但没有看到。 他的靴子要多久才能干？ 他想知道。他的脚还好吗？ 狗也冻伤了吗？ 门开了，杰克很高兴。 “每个人都在!”安妮喊道。 她拖着一袋干鱼，领着哈士奇走了进去。

The man followed the team into the cabin and slammed the door against the storm. "Go! Sit," he ordered the dogs. He pointed to dry straw spread over the floor. The bedraggled huskies took slow steps across the room and settled down in the straw. "Feel any better?" the man asked Jack. "Yes," said Jack. His teeth had stopped chattering, and the pain in his feet had lessened. "I'm Jack. She's my sister, Annie." "I know, she told me," said the man. "I'm Ed." He grabbed the kettle and poured a little more steamy water into the bucket. "Ed's a musher, too," said Annie. "His team is in a shed behind the cabin. He's a mailman, like Oki's uncle. He recognized their dogs." "Cool," said Jack. "Yep," said Ed. "Keep soaking your feet while your sister and I take care of the dogs." Jack kept his feet in the bucket as Ed poured drinking water into a large pot and gave it to the team. Then Ed and Annie knelt in the straw and

这个人跟着队员们进了船舱，砰地关上了门，挡住了暴风雨。 “去!坐下，”他命令狗。 他指着铺在地板上的干稻草。 浑身湿透的哈士奇慢慢地穿过房间，在稻草上坐了下来。 “感觉好点了吗？”那人问杰克。 “是的，”杰克说。他的牙齿不再打颤，脚上的疼痛减轻了。 “我是杰克。她是我妹妹，安妮。” “我知道，她告诉过我，”男人说。 “我。”他抓起水壶，又往桶里倒了一点水汽。 “艾德也是个牧马人，”安妮说。 “他的团队在小屋后面的一个棚子里。 他是个邮递员，跟奥基的叔叔一样。 他认出了他们家的狗。” “酷，”杰克说。“是的，”艾德说。 “你继续泡脚，我和你姐姐去照顾狗。” 杰克把脚放在桶里，埃德把饮用水倒进一个大锅里，给队员们喝。 然后艾德和安妮跪在稻草里

massaged the dogs' feet, one paw at a time. The huskies panted and looked as if they were smiling. "Good dogs, good dogs," Annie kept saying. "That's right, good dogs," Ed chimed in. Jack saw that the musher was missing teeth and his beard was scraggly. Even so, his face had dignity and strength, Jack thought. Now that he understood the job of a professional musher, he admired Ed a lot.

按摩狗的脚，一次一只爪子。 哈士奇们喘着气，看起来好像在微笑。 “好狗，好狗，”安妮不停地说。 “没错，好狗狗们，”埃德插嘴说。 杰克注意到他的牙齿掉了，胡子也蓬乱了。 即便如此，他的脸还是有尊严和力量，杰克想。 现在他了解了职业骑手的工作，他非常钦佩埃德。

"Ed lives here, at the Port Safety roadhouse," Annie said. "That's a good name for it, huh?" Jack nodded. As the wind howled outside, it did feel safe inside the cabin, but he worried that they couldn't stay. They had only twelve hours of magic. "Do you know what time it is?" he asked. "Hold on." Ed pulled out a pocket watch. "Almost midnight," he said. So almost eight and a half hours left to find Gunnar Kaasen and return to Nome, thought Jack. Suddenly he remembered something. "Ed, why did you call us Gunnar when you opened the door?" "Did you mean Gunnar Kaasen?" asked Annie. "Were you expecting him?" "I did mean Gunnar Kaasen," said Ed. "Earlier today I was told to wait for him. If he gets tired on his journey, I'm supposed to take his package on to Nome. But then I got word from Solomon that Gunnar would be staying there awhile. When I heard a knock, I thought he'd decided to push on." "No," said Annie. "The mayor of Nome told him to wait until the storm ends. At least that's

“埃德住在这里，在港口安全旅馆，”安妮说。 “这是个好名字，对吧？”杰克点了点头。 外面的风呼啸着，在船舱里感觉很安全，但他担心他们不能呆下去。 他们只有十二个小时的魔法。 “你知道现在几点了吗？”他问。 “等一等。”艾德掏出一块怀表。 “快半夜了，”他说。 杰克想，还剩下差不多八个半小时的时间去找贡纳·卡森，然后返回诺姆。 突然，他想起了一件事。 “艾德，你开门的时候为什么叫我们加纳？”“你是说加纳·卡森吗？”安妮问。 “你在等他吗？”“我说的是加纳·卡森。”艾德说。 “今天早些时候，我被告知要等他。 如果他在旅途中累了，我应该把他的包裹带到诺姆。 但后来所罗门告诉我加纳会在那待一段时间。 当我听到敲门声时，我以为他决定继续前进了。” “不，”安妮说。诺姆市市长让他等到暴风雨结束。 至少这是