3 Heroes or exiles

3. HEROES OR EXILES The boys scrambled over the slimy pebbles at the edge of the beach and back up Madman's Gully, the gorge they had climbed through a couple of hours before. This was a narrow crack in the cliffs filled with large rocks. They tried to move as quickly as they could, but this is difficult when you are slipping and sliding over huge stones covered in ice, and they made painfully slow progress. A dragon that hadn't been put off by the snow came shrieking down into the gorge. He landed on Wartihog's back and started savaging him, sinking his fangs into Wartihog's shoulder and ripping red lines into his arms. Gobber bashed the dragon on the nose with the handle of his axe, and the dragon let go and flapped away. But a whole wave of dragons replaced him, pouring into the canyon with awful, rasping cries, fire shooting from their nostrils and melting the snow before them, talons spread wickedly as they swooped downward. Gobber stood, legs wide apart, and whirled his big, double-headed axe. He threw back his great,

3. 英雄还是流亡者孩子们爬过海滩边黏糊糊的鹅卵石，回到几个小时前他们爬过的疯子峡谷。 这是悬崖上的一条狭窄的裂缝，里面布满了大块的岩石。 他们试图尽可能快地移动，但当你在覆盖着冰的巨石上打滑时，这是很困难的，他们前进得非常缓慢。 一条没有被雪吓倒的恶龙尖叫着冲进了峡谷。 他落在战虎的背上，开始攻击他，把他的毒牙扎进战虎的肩膀，在他的手臂上划下红色的线条。 戈伯用斧柄猛击巨龙的鼻子，巨龙松开手，拍打着翅膀飞走了。 但一大波恶龙取代了他的位置，它们带着可怕、刺耳的叫声涌进峡谷，鼻孔里喷出火焰，融化了面前的雪，恶狠狠地伸出爪子，俯冲而下。 戈伯叉开两腿站着，挥舞着他那把双头大斧头。 他把他那伟大的，

hairy head and yelled a terrible primeval Yell, that echoed down the sides of the gorge and made the hairs on the back of Hiccup's neck stick straight up like the spines on a sea urchin. Individually, dragons tend to have a healthy sense of self-preservation, but they are braver when they hunt in packs. They knew now that they had the advantage of massive numbers, so they didn't check their flying for an instant. They just kept on coming. Gobber let go of the axe. Spinning end to end, the axe soared up through the softly falling snow. It hit the biggest dragon of the lot, killing him instantly, and then carried on going, landing in a snow-drift hundreds of feet away and disappearing. This made the rest of the dragons think a bit. Some of them scrambled over each other in their haste to fly away, yelping like dogs. The others came to a halt, hovering uncertainly, screaming defiance but

他那毛茸茸的脑袋，发出了一声可怕的原始叫声，回荡在峡谷的两边，把嗝嗝脖子后面的毛像海胆上的刺一样笔直地竖了起来。 作为个体，龙往往有一种健康的自我保护意识，但当它们成群狩猎时，它们会更勇敢。 他们现在知道他们有人数众多的优势，所以他们一刻也没有检查他们的飞行。 他们只是不停地来。戈柏松开了斧头。 斧头从头到尾旋转着，在轻柔的雪花中翱翔。 它击中了最大的龙，当场毙命，然后继续前进，落在几百英尺外的雪堆上消失了。 这让其他的龙思考了一下。 他们中的一些人争先恐后地想要飞走，像狗一样尖叫着。 其他人停了下来，犹豫不决地徘徊着，尖叫着反抗，但是

keeping their distance. 'Waste of a good axe,' grunted Gobber. 'Keep going, boys, they could come back!' Hiccup needed no encouragement to keep going. As soon as he got out of the gorge and on to the marshy land behind it, he broke into a stumbling run, every now and then falling flat on his face in the snow. Some time later, when Gobber reckoned they were a safe distance from Wild Dragon Cliff, he yelled at the boys to stop. Very carefully he counted heads again, to check he hadn't lost anybody. Gobber had spent an unpleasant ten minutes standing at the mouth of the dragons' cave wondering why there was such a terrible racket and what he was going to say to Stoick the Vast if he lost his precious son and heir for good. Something Tactful and Sensitive, he supposed, but Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points and he took the first five minutes to come up with 'Hiccup copped it. SORRY.' and then spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out. Consequently, although secretly mightily relieved, he was not in a Good Mood and, as soon as

保持距离。“浪费一把好斧头。”戈伯咕哝道。 “继续走，孩子们，他们会回来的！”小嗝嗝不需要鼓励就能继续前进。 他一走出峡谷，踏上峡谷后面的沼泽地，就踉踉跄跄地跑起来，时不时地脸朝下摔在雪地上。 过了一段时间，当戈伯认为他们离野龙崖已经有一段安全的距离时，他大声叫孩子们停下来。 他又非常仔细地数了数人头，以确保没有漏掉任何人。 戈伯站在龙洞口，度过了令人不愉快的十分钟，心里想着为什么会有这么可怕的喧闹声，如果他永远失去了他宝贵的儿子和继承人，他该对巨人斯托伊克说些什么。 他想应该是机智和敏感的东西，但机智和敏感不是戈伯的强项，他花了五分钟才想出“嗝嗝抓住了它”这个词。 对不起。然后又用了五分钟的时间把他的胡子拔了出来。 结果，虽然他暗自松了一口气，但心情并不好

he could get his breath back, he exploded all over the place, as the boys stood, shivering violently, in a bedraggled line. 'NEVER… in FOURTEEN YEARS… have I come across such a load of HOPELESS BARNACLES as you lot. WHICH OF YOU USELESS MOLLUSCS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR WAKING UP THE DRAGONS????' 'I was,' said Hiccup. Which wasn't strictly true. 'Oh, that's BRILLIANT,' bellowed Gobber, 'just BRILLIANT. Our Future Leader shows off his magnificent Leadership Skills. At the tender age of ten and a half he does his best to annihilate himself and the rest of you in A SIMPLE MILITARY EXERCISE!' Snotlout sniggered. 'You find something amusing about that, Snotlout?' asked Gobber, with dangerous softness. 'EVERYBODY IS ON LIMPET RATIONS FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS.' The boys groaned. 'Smart work, Hiccup,' sneered Snotlout. 'I can't wait to see you in action on the battlefield.' 'SILENCE!' yelled Gobber. 'THIS IS YOUR

他终于缓过气来，气得满地都是，男孩们站成一排，浑身湿透，剧烈地颤抖着。 “我从来没有……十四年来……遇到过像你们这样一群毫无希望的藤壶。 你们这些没用的软体动物是谁唤醒了龙？？？？“是的，”小嗝嗝说。 这并不完全正确。 “哦，太棒了，”戈柏吼道，“太棒了。 我们的未来领袖展示了他卓越的领导才能。 在十岁半的年纪，他就竭尽全力在简单的军事演习中消灭自己和你们其余的人！”Snotlout都在偷笑。 “你觉得这有什么好笑的吗，鼻鼻子？”戈伯带着危险的温柔问道。 接下来的三周，每个人都要吃帽贝。男孩们呻吟着。 “干得漂亮，小嗝嗝。” 我迫不及待地想看你在战场上的表现。“安静!戈伯喊道。 “这是你的。”

INITIATION, NOT A DAY OUT IN THE COUNTRY! SILENCE, OR YOU'LL BE LUNCHING ON LUGWORMS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES!' 'Now,' continued Gobber, more calmly, 'although that was an absolute mess, it wasn't a total disaster. I PRESUME that you do all HAVE a dragon after that fiasco…?' 'Yes,' chorused the boys. Fishlegs took a sideways glance at Hiccup, who was staring straight ahead. 'Lucky for you,' said Gobber, ominously. 'So you have all passed the first part of the Dragon Test. There are, however, still two parts that you have to complete before you can become full members of the Tribe. Your next task will be to train this dragon yourself. This will be a test of the force of your personality. You will assert your will over this wild creature and show it who is Master. Your dragon will be expected to obey simple commands such as "go" and "stay", and hunt fish for you in the way that dragons have hunted for the Sons of Thor since anybody can remember. If you are worried about the training process, you should study a book called How To Train Your Dragon by

入会，不出一天乡！闭嘴，不然你们的下半辈子都要吃蛔虫了！“现在，”戈伯平静多了，继续说道，“虽然那是一团乱麻，但也不是一场灾难。 我猜在那次惨败之后你们都有一条龙吧？“是的，”孩子们异口同声地说。 鱼腿瞥了Hiccup一眼，Hiccup正直勾勾地盯着前方。 “算你走运。”戈伯不祥地说。 “所以你们都通过了龙测试的第一部分。 然而，在你成为部落的正式成员之前，你仍然必须完成两个部分。 你的下一个任务就是亲自训练这条龙。 这将是对你个性力量的考验。 你要在这野兽身上彰显你的意志让它知道谁才是主人。 你的龙应该服从简单的命令，比如“走”和“停留”，为你捕鱼，就像所有人都记得龙为雷神之子打猎一样。 如果你担心训练过程，你应该学习一本名为《如何训练你的龙》的书

Professor Yobbish, which you will find in the fireplace of the Great Hall.' Suddenly Gobber looked very pleased with himself. 'I stole that book from the Meathead Public Library myself,' he said modestly, regarding his very black fingernails. 'From right under the nose of the Hairy Scary Librarian… He never noticed a thing… Now THAT'S burglary for you…' Wartihog put up his hand. 'What happens if we can't read, sir?' 'No boasting, Wartihog!' boomed Gobber. 'Get some idiot to read it for you. Your dragons will begin to go back to sleep, because this is still their hibernation time'– some of the dragons had, indeed, gone very quiet inside the baskets– 'so take them home and put them in a warm place. They should wake up in the next couple of weeks. You will then have only FOUR MONTHS to prepare for Initiation Day at the Thor'sday Thursday Celebrations, and the final part of your Test. If, on that day, you can prove that you have trained your dragon to the satisfaction of myself and other elders of the Tribe, you can finally call yourself a Hooligan of Berk.' The boys stood very tall and tried to look like

约比什教授，你可以在大礼堂的壁炉里找到。”戈伯突然对自己很满意。 “那本书是我自己从笨蛋公共图书馆偷来的。”他看着自己乌黑的指甲，谦虚地说。 “就在那个毛茸茸的可怕的图书管理员的鼻子底下……他什么也没注意到……现在，这对你来说就是入室盗窃……” “如果我们不识字怎么办，先生？”“别吹牛了，战猪！”戈伯大声说。 “找个白痴给你读。 你的龙又要开始睡觉了，因为现在还是它们的冬眠时间——有些龙在篮子里确实很安静——所以把它们带回家，放在暖和的地方。 他们应该会在接下来的几周内醒来。 然后你将只有四个月的时间来准备在托尔日星期四庆祝仪式上的入会日，以及你考试的最后一部分。 如果在那一天，你能证明你已经训练了你的龙，让我和部落的其他长老满意，你就可以称自己为伯克的流氓了。”男孩们站得很高，努力使自己看起来像