4 How to train your dragon

4. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 'HA HA HA HA!' Snotlout was laughing so hard that he hadn't managed to say anything at all. The boys were hanging about the village gates, taking the opportunity to show off the dragons that they had caught. Hiccup had tried to walk through without being noticed, but Snotlout had stopped him. 'Let's see what pathetic creature Hiccup has got,' said Snotlout, and took off the lid. 'Oh, this is BRILLIANT– look at it!' said Snotlout, when he finally got his breath back from laughing. 'What IS it, Hiccup? An ickle brown bunny rabbit with wings? A flower fairy? A fluffy flying frog? Gather round everybody and see the magnificent animal that Our Future Leader has caught himself!' 'Oh, Hiccup, you are useless,' crowed Speedifist. 'You're the son of a CHIEF, for Thor's sake. Why didn't you get one of those

4. 如何训练你的龙“哈哈哈哈哈！”鼻鼻子笑得太厉害了，一句话也说不出来。 男孩们在村门附近徘徊，借机炫耀他们捉到的龙。 小嗝嗝本想悄无声息地走过去，但被鼻鼻子拦住了。 “让我们看看嗝嗝得到了什么可怜的东西，”鼻子鼻子说着，摘下了盖子。 “哦，这太棒了——快看！”鼻子鼻子笑了，终于缓过气来，说道。 “怎么了，小嗝嗝？”一只长着翅膀的棕色小兔子？ 花仙子？一只毛茸茸的会飞的青蛙？ 大家都围过来，看看我们未来的领袖自己捉到的雄伟的动物！“哦，小嗝嗝，你真没用，”速拳王得意地说。 “看在托尔的份上，你是酋长的儿子。 你为什么不买一个呢

new Monstrous Nightmares with the six-foot wing-span and the extra-extendable claws? They're really mean killers, they are.' 'I have one,' grinned Snotlout, gesturing to the terrifying-looking, flame-red animal fast asleep in his basket. 'I think I shall call her FIREWORM. What are you going to call yours, Hiccup? Sweetums? Sugarlips? Babyface?' Hiccup's dragon took this particular moment to give a huge yawn, opening his tiny mouth wide to reveal a flickering, forked tongue, very pink gums and ABSOLUTELY NO TEETH AT ALL. Snotlout laughed so hard, Dogsbreath had to hold him upright.

有六英尺翼展和加长爪子的新怪物噩梦？ 他们真的是凶残的杀手，真的。“我有一只，”鼻鼻子咧嘴笑着，指着那只在篮子里熟睡的火红色的可怕动物。 “我想我应该叫她‘萤火虫’。 你的名字叫什么，小嗝嗝？ Sweetums吗?Sugarlips吗?娃娃脸吗?”嗝嗝的龙在这个特殊的时刻打了一个大大的哈欠，把他的小嘴巴张得大大的，露出了一个闪烁的、分叉的舌头，粉红色的牙龈，完全没有牙齿。 鼻鼻子笑得太厉害了，狗息不得不扶着他。

'TOOTHLESS!' cried Snotlout. 'Hiccup has found himself the only TOOTHLESS dragon in the uncivilised world! This is too good. Hiccup the USELESS and his dragon, TOOTHLESS!' Fishlegs leapt to Hiccup's defence. 'Well, you are not allowed that Monstrous Nightmare that you've got there, Snotface Snotlout. Only the son of a Chief is allowed a Monstrous Nightmare. That Fireworm dragon is Hiccup's, by right.' Snotlout's eyes narrowed. He grabbed Fishlegs's arm and twisted it viciously behind his back. 'Nobody's listening to you, you plankton-hearted, fish-legged, disaster area,' sneered Snotlout. 'Thanks to you and your snivelling, sneezing disability, that whole military operation was nearly a total disaster. When I'm Chief of this Tribe the first thing I'm going to do is boot anybody with a pathetic allergy like yours straight out into exile. You're not fit to be a Hooligan!' Fishlegs went very white in the face, but he still managed to gasp out, 'But you are NOT going to be Chief of this Tribe. HICCUP is going to be

“无牙!鼻涕鼻子叫道。 “嗝嗝发现自己是这个未开化的世界里唯一没有牙齿的龙！”这太好了。 没用的嗝嗝和他的龙，没有牙齿！”鱼腿跳起来为小嗝嗝辩护。 “好吧，你不能做那个可怕的噩梦，鼻涕脸鼻鼻子。 只有酋长的儿子才有资格做可怕的噩梦。 那条火龙确实是小嗝嗝的。”鼻子精眯起眼睛。 他抓住鱼腿的胳膊，在背后狠狠地扭了一下。 “没人在听你说话，你这个以浮游生物为心、鱼腿为腿的灾区，”鼻涕子嘲笑道。 “多亏了你和你流鼻涕、打喷嚏的残疾，整个军事行动几乎是一场彻底的灾难。 当我成为这个部落的酋长我要做的第一件事就是把像你这样有可怜的过敏反应的人直接赶走。 你不配当流氓！”鱼腿的脸变得非常苍白，但他仍然努力喘着气说：“但你不会成为这个部落的酋长。 HICCUP将会

Chief of this Tribe.' Snotlout dropped Fishlegs's arm and advanced menacingly on Hiccup. 'Oh, he is, is he?' jeered Snotlout. 'So, I'm not allowed that Monstrous Nightmare, am I? Our Future Leader is keeping very quiet about it, isn't he? Come on, Hiccup, I'm stealing your inheritance. What are you going to do about it, then, eh?' The boys all looked solemn. Snotlout really had broken an ancient Viking rule. 'Hiccup should challenge you for the dragon,' said Fishlegs slowly, and everybody swivelled round to look expectantly at Hiccup. 'Oh, brilliant,' muttered Hiccup under his breath. 'Thank you, Fishlegs. My day just gets better and better.' Snotlout was a great brute of a boy who didn't really need Dogsbreath's help when it came to bashing people up. He wore specially-constructed, bronze-tipped sandals in order to cause maximum damage when kicking people. Hiccup tried to stay out of his way as much as he possibly could. But he couldn't ignore this insult to his status, now Fishlegs had helpfully pointed it out, without

是这个部落的酋长。”鼻子哥放下鱼腿的胳膊，威胁地朝嗝嗝走去。 “哦，他是，是吗？”鼻子精嘲笑道。 “这么说，我不能做那个可怕的噩梦了，是吗？” 我们的未来领袖对此保持沉默，是吗？ 得了吧，小嗝嗝，我在偷你的遗产。 那么，你打算怎么办呢，嗯？”男孩们都显得很严肃。 鼻子怪真的打破了维京人的古老规矩。 “小嗝嗝应该向你挑战那条龙。”鱼腿慢慢地说，大家都转过身来，期待地看着小嗝嗝。 “哦，太棒了。”嗝嗝低声嘟囔着。 “谢谢你，鱼腿。我的日子越来越好了。”鼻子哥是一个非常粗野的男孩，在殴打别人的时候并不需要狗息的帮助。 他穿着特制的青铜头凉鞋，以便在踢人时造成最大的伤害。 小嗝嗝尽量不去挡他的路。 但他不能忽视这对他身份的侮辱，现在鱼腿已经帮他指出来了，没有

looking like a coward in front of the other boys. And if you became known as a coward in the Hooligan Tribe, you might as well go the whole hog and wear a pale pink jerkin, take up playing the harp, and change your name to Ermintrude. 'I challenge you, Snotface Snotlout, for the dragon, Fireworm, who is mine by right,' said Hiccup, trying to hide his reluctance by speaking as loudly and formally as he could. 'I accept your challenge,' said Snotlout super-fast, grinning all over his horrid, smug face. 'Axes or fists?' 'Fists,' said Hiccup. Because axes were a REALLY bad idea. 'I shall look forward to showing you how a real Future Hero fights,' said Snotlout, and then he

在其他男孩面前像个懦夫。 如果你在流氓部落里被认为是个懦夫，你还不如全力以赴，穿上淡粉色的短上衣，开始弹竖琴，把你的名字改成厄米特鲁德。 “我向你挑战，鼻涕脸鼻涕虫，因为火龙是我的，它是我的。”小嗝嗝说，尽量大声、正式地说话，以掩饰自己的不情愿。 “我接受你的挑战。”鼻鼻子飞快地说，他那张可怕的、沾沾自喜的脸上满是笑容。 “斧头还是拳头？”“拳头，”嗝嗝说。 因为斧头是一个非常糟糕的主意。 “我很期待向你展示一个真正的未来英雄是如何战斗的。

remembered something. 'AFTER the Initiation thing on Thor'sday Thursday, though. I don't want to stub my toe or anything while I'm kicking you all around the village.' 'Hiccup might win,' Fishlegs pointed out. 'OF COURSE he won't win,' boasted Snotlout. 'Look at my sporting ability, my Viking courage, my capacity for mindless violence. I shall win just as surely as I shall be Chief of this Tribe one day. I mean, look at my dragon and then look at HIS dragon.' He pointed mockingly at Toothless. 'The gods have spoken. It's only a matter of time.' 'In the meantime,' Snotlout carried on, 'I shall live in fear of being gummed to death by Hiccup's terrifying, toothless terrapin.' And Snotlout sauntered off in a lordly fashion, giving Hiccup a nasty kick on the shins as he did so. 'Sorry about the challenge,' Fishlegs apologised, after they had left the baskets with the dragons in them under their beds at their homes. 'Oh, don't worry about it,' said Hiccup. 'Somebody would have got me to do it anyway. You know how they all love a fight.'

记得的东西。“在星期四托尔日的入会仪式之后。 当我在村子里踢你的时候，我可不想踢到脚趾头什么的。“小嗝嗝可能会赢，”鱼腿指出。 “他当然不会赢。” “看看我的运动能力，我的维京勇气，我的无脑暴力能力。 我一定会赢，就像我总有一天会成为这个部落的酋长一样。 我的意思是，看看我的龙，再看看他的龙。”他嘲弄地指着无牙。 “诸神已经说过了。这只是时间问题。“与此同时，”鼻子继续说，“我将生活在害怕被小嗝嗝那只可怕的、没有牙齿的水龟咬死的恐惧中。”鼻子哥神气十足地溜掉了，一边走一边狠狠地踢了嗝嗝的小腿一脚。 “很抱歉给你带来了挑战。”鱼腿道歉道。他们把装着龙的篮子留在了自己家的床底下。 “哦，别担心，”小嗝嗝说。 “反正也会有人让我这么做的。 你知道他们都喜欢打架。”