9 Fear, vanity, revenge and silly jokes

9. FEAR, VANITY, REVENGE AND SILLY JOKES March turned into April and April turned into May. After Fireworm's remark about the pathetic bunny rabbit, Toothless never pooed in the kitchen again. But Hiccup hadn't made any further progress in training him. It was still raining, but it was a warm rain. The wind was blowing, but it was a less furious wind. It was just about possible to stand upright. The gulls' eggs were hatching on the rocks and the parent gulls dive-bombed Hiccup and Fishlegs when they came to the Long Beach to practice. 'KILL, Horrorcow, KILL,' said Fishlegs to Horrorcow, who was calmly perched on his shoulder. 'You could have that Black-backed Gull for breakfast, he's barely half your size. Honestly, Hiccup, I give up, I don't know how I'm going to pass the hunting section of the test, Horrorcow just doesn't have the killer

9. 恐惧、虚荣、复仇和愚蠢的笑话三月变成了四月，四月又变成了五月。 在Fireworm评论了可怜的兔子之后，无牙再也没有在厨房里拉屎了。 但是小嗝嗝对他的训练并没有取得任何进展。 雨还在下，但已经是暖雨了。 风在刮，但没有那么猛烈。 站起来几乎是可能的。 海鸥的蛋在岩石上孵化，父母海鸥俯冲轰炸嗝嗝和鱼腿当他们来到长滩练习。 “杀人，恐怖牛，杀人。”鱼腿对冷静地坐在他肩膀上的恐怖牛说。 “你可以把那只黑背鸥当早餐吃，它的个头还不到你的一半。 说实话，小嗝嗝，我放弃了，我不知道我怎么能通过测试的狩猎部分，恐怖片里没有凶手

instinct. She'd never survive in the wild.' Hiccup laughed hollowly. 'You think YOU'VE got problems? Toothless and I are failing right from the beginning: the basic obedience commands, the retrieval, the compulsory exercises, the hunting– the lot.' 'It can't be that bad,' said Fishlegs. 'Watch,' said Hiccup. The boys moved along the beach a bit, out of range of the gulls. They started practising the most basic command of all: 'go'. The dragon was supposed to stand, bolt upright, on the handler's outstretched arm. The handler would then bark the command as loudly as possible, while simultaneously lifting his arm to fling the dragon into the air. The dragon was supposed to soar gracefully into flight when the handler's arm reached its highest point. Horrorcow yawned, scratched and slowly flapped off, grumbling to herself. Toothless was even less obedient. 'GO!' yelled Hiccup. Hiccup flung his arm up. Toothless hung on. 'I said GO!' Hiccup repeated in frustration.

本能。她在野外是活不下去的。”小嗝嗝空洞地笑了。 “你觉得你有问题吗？” 无牙和我从一开始就失败了：基本的服从命令、取回、强制练习、狩猎——所有的一切。“不可能那么糟，”鱼腿说。 “看，”小嗝嗝说。男孩们沿着海滩走了一会儿，离开了海鸥的范围。 他们开始练习最基本的指令：“走”。 龙应该笔直地站在驯兽师伸出的手臂上。 然后驯兽师会尽可能大声地吠叫命令，同时举起手臂将龙抛向空中。 当训练员的手臂到达最高点时，龙应该优雅地飞翔。 恐怖牛打了个哈欠，抓了抓，慢慢地拍着翅膀飞走了，嘴里嘟囔着。 无牙更不听话。 “去!嗝嗝喊道。嗝嗝举起胳膊。 无牙坚持着。“我说去！”嗝嗝沮丧地重复了一遍。

'W-w-why g-g-go?' shuddered Toothless, gripping even tighter. 'Just go GO GO GO GO!!!!' screamed Hiccup, flapping his arm up and down frantically, with Toothless hanging on to it for dear life. Toothless stayed. 'Toothless,' said Hiccup, as reasonably as he could, 'please go. If you don't start going when I tell you to, we are both going to be thrown into exile.' 'But I don't w-w-want to go,' Toothless pointed

“W-w-why g-g-go吗?无牙颤抖着，抓得更紧了。 “快走，快走，快走！！！！小嗝嗝尖叫着，疯狂地上下挥动着胳膊，无牙紧紧地抓住胳膊不放。 没有牙齿。“没有牙齿，”小嗝嗝尽量讲道理地说，“请你走吧。 如果你不按我说的去做，我们俩都会被流放。“可我不想——不想去。”无牙指了指

out, equally reasonably. Fishlegs watched the whole process in appalled amazement. 'You really do have problems,' he said in an awed voice. 'Yup,' said Hiccup. He finally managed to uncurl Toothless's claws, which had relaxed their grip for a second, and pushed him off. Toothless landed on the sand with a squeal of outrage, and immediately attached himself to Hiccup's leg, getting a good grip on the sandals with his talons, and wrapping his wings around Hiccup's calf. 'N-n-not going,' said Toothless stubbornly. 'It can't get much worse than this,' said Hiccup, 'so I'm going to try a new tack.' He took out the notebook in which he had been jotting down all he knew about dragons in the hope that it might be useful. 'DRAGON MOTIVATION…' Hiccup read aloud, '1. GRATITUDE.' Hiccup sighed. '2. FEAR. That works, but I can't do it. 3,4,5, GREED, VANITY and REVENGE. Those are all worth a try. 6. JOKES AND RIDDLING TALK. Only if I'm desperate.' 'This has got to be a first,' drawled Fishlegs, 'but I'm with Gobber the Belch on this one. Why don't you just yell a bit louder?'

Out，同样合理。鱼腿惊愕地看着整个过程。 “你确实有问题，”他敬畏地说。 “是的，”小嗝嗝说。他终于松开了无牙的爪子，把他推了下去。 “无牙”愤怒地尖叫一声，落在沙滩上，立刻抓住嗝嗝的腿，用爪子紧紧抓住凉鞋，用翅膀搂住嗝嗝的小腿。 “不——不——不去。”无牙固执地说。 “没有比这更糟的了，”小嗝嗝说，“所以我要试试新方法。”他拿出笔记本，上面记录着他所知道的关于龙的一切，希望能对他有所帮助。 “龙的动机……”小嗝嗝大声念道，“1。 感激之情。”打嗝叹了口气。 “2。恐惧。这招管用，但我做不到。 3,4,5，贪婪，虚荣和复仇。 这些都值得一试。 6. 笑话和猜谜语。 除非我走投无路。“这可是头一回，”鱼腿慢吞吞地说，“不过这次我同意打嗝哥伯的看法。” 你为什么不大声点喊呢？”