11 Thor is angry

11. THOR IS ANGRY The storm raged through the whole of that night. Hiccup lay unable to sleep as the wind hurled about the walls like fifty dragons trying to get in. 'Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry.' Out in the blackness and way out to sea the storm was so wild and the waves so gigantic that they disturbed the sleep of a couple of very ancient Sea Dragons indeed. The first Dragon was averagely enormous, about the size of a largeish cliff. The second Dragon was gobsmackingly vast. He was that Monster mentioned earlier in this story, the great Beast who had been sleeping off his Roman picnic for the past six centuries or so, the one

11. 那天晚上，暴风雨肆虐了整整一夜。 小嗝嗝躺在那里睡不着觉，因为风在墙壁上肆虐，就像五十条龙想要进来一样。 “让我们进去，让我们进去。”风尖叫着。 “我们非常非常饿。”在黑暗的海面上，风暴是如此猛烈，海浪是如此巨大，以至于吵醒了一对非常古老的海龙的睡眠。 第一条龙一般巨大，大约有一个大悬崖那么大。 第二只龙大得惊人。 他就是这个故事前面提到的那个怪物，在过去六个世纪左右的时间里，他一直在罗马野餐时睡觉

who had recently been drifting into a lighter sleep. The great storm lifted both Dragons gently from the seabed like a couple of sleeping babies, and washed them on the swell of one indescribably enormous wave on to The Long Beach, outside Hiccup's village. And there they stayed, sleeping peacefully, while the wind shrieked horribly all around them like wild Viking ghosts having a loud party in Valhalla, until the storm blew itself out and the sun came up on a beach full of Dragon and very little else. The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares. Imagine an animal about twenty times as large as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. More like a mountain than a living creature– a great, glistening, evil mountain. He was so encrusted with barnacles he looked like he was wearing a kind of jewelled armour but, where the little crustaceans and the coral couldn't get a grip, in the joints and crannies of him, you could see his true colour. A glorious, dark

他最近刚进入浅睡状态。 巨大的风暴把两条巨龙像一对熟睡的婴儿一样，轻轻地从海底提了起来，被一股难以形容的巨浪冲到了小嗝嗝村庄外的长滩上。 他们就呆在那里，安静地睡着了，而狂风在他们周围可怕地尖叫着，就像狂野的维京鬼魂在英灵殿里举行盛大的聚会一样，直到暴风雨平息，太阳升起来，照耀在满是龙的海滩上，几乎没有别的东西。 第一只龙足以让你做噩梦。 第二只龙足以让你做噩梦。 想象一下一种比雷克斯暴龙大20倍的动物。 与其说是活物，不如说是一座山——一座巨大的、闪闪发光的、邪恶的山。 他浑身长满了藤瓶，看起来就像戴着一件镶着宝石的盔甲，但是，在小甲壳类动物和珊瑚无法抓住他的地方，在他的关节和缝隙里，你可以看到他的真面目。 一个辉煌的，黑暗的

green, it was the colour of the ocean itself. He was awake now, and he had coughed up the last thing he had eaten, the Standard of the Eighth Legion, with its pathetic ribbons still flying bravely. He was using it as a tooth-pick and the eagle was proving very useful for teasing out those irritating little pieces of flesh that get stuck between your twenty-foot back teeth. The first person to discover the Dragons was Badbreath the Gruff, who set out very early to check how his nets had fared in the storm. He took one look at the beach, rushed to the Chief's house, and woke him up. 'We have a problem,' said Badbreath. 'What do you mean, A PROBLEM?' snapped Stoick the Vast. Stoick had not slept at all. He had lain awake worrying. What kind of father did put his precious Laws before the life of his son? But then what kind of son would fail the precious Laws that his father had looked up to and believed in all his life? By morning Stoick had made the awesome decision that he was going to reverse the solemn

绿色是海洋本身的颜色。 他现在醒了，他咳出了他最后吃的东西——第八军团的军旗，那可怜的绶带还在勇敢地飘扬着。 他把它当牙签用，事实证明，老鹰在剔出那些卡在你20英尺长的后牙之间的恼人的小肉块方面非常有用。 第一个发现龙的人是臭臭，他很早就出发去检查他的网在暴风雨中表现如何。 他看了一眼海滩，冲到酋长的房子，把他叫醒。 “我们有麻烦了，”臭臭说。 “你说什么，有问题？”巨人斯托伊克厉声说。 斯托伊克根本没有睡觉。 他躺在床上担心得睡不着。 什么样的父亲会把他宝贵的法律放在儿子的生命之前？ 但是，什么样的儿子会辜负他父亲一生所敬仰和信仰的宝贵法律呢？ 到了早上，斯托伊克做出了一个令人敬畏的决定，他要扭转这一庄严的局面

pronouncement he had made on the beach, and un-banish Hiccup and the other boys. 'It is WEAK of me, WEAK,' said Stoick to himself, gloomily. 'Squidface the Terrible would have banished his son in the twinkling of an eye. Loudmouth the Gouty would have positively enjoyed it. What is the matter with me? I should be banished myself, and no doubt that is what Mogadon the Meathead is going to suggest.' All in all, Stoick was not in a state to deal with any more problems. 'There are a couple of humungous Dragons on the Long Beach,' said Badbreath. 'Tell them to go away,' said Stoick. 'You tell them,' said Badbreath. Stoick stomped off to the beach. He returned again looking very thoughtful. 'Did you tell them?' asked Badbreath. 'Tell IT,' said Stoick. 'The larger Dragon has eaten the smaller one. I didn't like to interrupt. I think I shall call a Council of War.' The Hooligans and the Meatheads woke that morning to the terrible sound of the Big Drums summoning them to a Council of War, only used in

他在海滩上说的那句话，并把小嗝嗝和其他孩子赶走了。 “我太软弱了，软弱，”斯托伊克忧郁地自言自语道。 “可怕的鱿鱼脸一眨眼就会把他的儿子驱逐出去。 大嘴巴的痛风患者肯定会喜欢的。 我是怎么了？ 我自己也应该被放逐，毫无疑问，这就是那个笨蛋摩加迪沙的建议。”总而言之，斯托伊克已经不能再处理任何问题了。 “长滩上有两只巨大的龙。” “叫他们走开，”斯托伊克说。 “你告诉他们，”臭口臭说。 斯托伊克跺着脚向海滩走去。 他回来时显得若有所思。 “你告诉他们了吗？”臭口臭问。 “告诉她，”斯托伊克说。“大龙吃掉了小龙。 我不想打断你。 我想我应该召集军事会议。”那天早上，流氓和笨蛋在可怕的大鼓声中醒来，召唤他们参加战争会议，只在

times of dreadful crisis. Hiccup awoke with a start. He had hardly slept at all. Toothless, who had crept into bed with Hiccup the night before, was nowhere to be seen and the bed was stone cold, so he had obviously been gone for some time. Hiccup dragged his clothes on hurriedly. They had dried overnight, and were so stiff with salt that it was like putting on a shirt and leggings made out of wood. He wasn't sure what he was meant to do, as this was the morning he was supposed to go into exile. He followed everybody else to the Great Hall. The Meatheads had spent the night there anyway, because it had not been the weather for camping. On the way he bumped into Fishlegs. He looked as if he had slept as badly as Hiccup. His glasses were on crooked. 'What's happening?' asked Hiccup. Fishlegs shrugged his shoulders. 'Where's Horrorcow?' asked Hiccup. Fishlegs shrugged his shoulders again. Hiccup looked around at the crowd pushing its way towards the Great Hall and noticed that there was not a domestic dragon to be seen. Normally they were

可怕的危机时刻。嗝嗝惊醒了。 他几乎没有睡过觉。 昨天晚上和嗝嗝一起爬上床的无牙不见了，床冷得像石头一样，所以他显然已经离开一段时间了。 嗝嗝匆匆穿上衣服。 它们一夜之间就晒干了，又被盐浸湿了，就像穿上了一件衬衫和一条木头做的紧身裤。 他不确定自己要做什么，因为这是他应该被流放的早晨。 他跟着大家来到礼堂。 不管怎样，笨蛋们还是在那里过夜了，因为当时的天气不适合露营。 在路上他碰到了鱼腿。 他看起来好像睡得和小嗝嗝一样糟。 他的眼镜戴歪了。 “发生了什么?小嗝嗝问。 鱼腿耸了耸肩。 “Horrorcow在哪?小嗝嗝问。 鱼腿又耸了耸肩。 小嗝嗝环顾四周，看到人群正朝礼堂挤去，注意到没有一条家龙。 通常是这样的

never far from their Masters' heels and shoulders, yapping and snarling and sneering at each other. There was something faintly sinister about their disappearance… Nobody else had noticed. There was a tremendous babble of excitement, and such a crush of enormous Vikings that not everybody could get in to the Great Hall, and there was a big jumble of barbarians shouting and shoving outside. Stoick called for silence. 'I have called you here today,' boomed Stoick, 'because we have a problem on our hands. A rather large Dragon is sitting on the Long Beach.' The crowd was deeply unimpressed. They were hoping for a more important crisis. Mogadon voiced the general disapproval. 'The Big Drums are only used in times of ghastly deadly peril,' said Mogadon in amazement. 'You have summoned us here at a horribly early hour,' (Mogadon had not slept well, on the stone floor of the Great Hall with only his helmet for a pillow) 'just because of a DRAGON? I do hope you are not losing your grip, Stoick,' he sneered, hoping that he was. 'This is no ordinary Dragon,' said Stoick. 'This

从不远离主人的脚跟和肩膀，互相吠叫、咆哮和嘲笑。 他们的失踪似乎有些不祥……没有人注意到。 现场一片激动的嘈杂声，一大群庞大的维京人挤在一起，没人能进到礼堂里去，外面还有一大群乱糟糟的野蛮人又喊又搡。 斯托伊克呼吁大家保持沉默。 “我今天把你叫到这儿来，”斯托伊克大声说，“因为我们手头有个问题。 一条相当大的龙正坐在长滩上。”人群对此无动于衷。 他们希望发生一场更重要的危机。 摩加迪沙表示了普遍的反对。 “大鼓只在可怕的致命危险时刻才会使用，”摩加迪安惊讶地说。 “你这么早就把我们叫到这里来了。”（摩加迪加没有睡好，他躺在大厅的石头地上，只把他的头盔当枕头）“就因为一条龙？” “我真希望你没有失去控制，斯托伊克，”他冷笑着说，希望自己是失去了控制。 “这不是一条普通的龙。”斯托伊克说。 “这