2 A Few Little Communication Problems

2. A FEW LITTLE COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS 'STOP! MOTHER! IT'S ME, HICCUP!' shouted Hiccup. But of course the visor on the beastly helmet was down, and so it came out more like: 'Mff! Mff! Mff!' Hiccup grabbed at the visor and tried to yank it up, but it was jammed absolutely tight shut. It would not budge. Oh for Thor's sake. This was not a good situation. Apart from anything else, Valhallarama was a truly magnificent Hero, one of the very, very best, so they were in big trouble if he couldn't tell her who he was. The thing was, Valhallarama was away questing a lot. Hiccup was never quite sure what she was questing for exactly, but his father, Stoick the Vast, always assured him it was very important. As a result Hiccup hadn't seen her in a very long while, perhaps for as long as two years now. So she very well might not be aware that her only son was the one who was now known as the Outcast and the Enemy of the Wilderwest. Let alone that Stoick was

2. 一些小沟通问题“停！”妈妈!是我，小嗝嗝！嗝嗝喊道。 当然，那顶可恶的头盔上的遮阳板是掉下来的，所以它发出的声音更像是：“Mff!”Mff !Mff !”小嗝嗝抓住遮阳板，想把它拉起来，但它被完全卡住了。 它不会动。看在托尔的份上。 这不是一个好情况。 除此之外，瓦尔哈拉拉马是一个真正伟大的英雄，非常非常优秀的英雄之一，所以如果他不能告诉她他是谁，他们就有大麻烦了。 问题是，瓦尔哈拉拉马经常外出探险。 小嗝嗝从来都不确定自己到底在寻找什么，但他的父亲，巨人斯托伊克，总是向他保证这是非常重要的。 结果小嗝嗝有很长一段时间没有见到她了，也许到现在已经有两年了。 所以她很可能没有意识到，她唯一的儿子就是现在被称为“流亡者”和“西部荒原的敌人”的那个。 更不用说斯托伊克了

now a slave, and Hiccup had the Slavemark himself, and a whole load of other things Hiccup was hoping to explain to her gently in a quiet moment. He had hoped that if he ever did get a chance to explain the whole thing to her, about how what he was really trying to do was save all the dragons from extinction, she might be one of the few people who would actually be on his side. (Hiccup had a hopeful nature.) Because Valhallarama loved dragons. Hiccup knew she loved dragons. At least, he thought he knew she loved dragons. It suddenly occurred to Hiccup, in that moment as they were screaming through the forest at breakneck speed in the dead of night with his mother shooting arrows at him almost continuously, that perhaps he did not really know his mother all that well. She had been away questing a lot. The Wodensfang and Toothless were both exceptionally speedy so they were flying not at their top speed but on either side of Hiccup's head, like twin dragonly guardian angels. 'You have to admit he is a marvellous Warrior,' quavered the Wodensfang admiringly.

嗝嗝现在已经是一个奴隶了，他自己也有了奴隶标记，还有一大堆其他的事情，嗝嗝希望在安静的时候温柔地向她解释。 他曾希望，如果他有机会向她解释整件事，告诉她他真正想做的是拯救所有的巨龙，使之免于灭绝，她可能会是少数几个真正站在他一边的人之一。 （小嗝嗝天性充满希望。）因为Valhallarama喜欢龙。 小嗝嗝知道她喜欢龙。 至少，他认为他知道她喜欢龙。 在夜深人静的时候，当他们在森林里以极快的速度尖叫着，他的母亲几乎不停地向他射箭的时候，嗝嗝突然想到，也许他并不是真的那么了解他的母亲。 她去了很多地方探险。 沃顿鲨和无牙鲨的速度都特别快，所以它们不是以最高速度飞行，而是在小嗝嗝头部的两侧飞行，就像一对只有龙的守护天使。 “你得承认他是个了不起的战士。”沃登斯芬钦佩地颤抖着说。

'How big do you think he is? Six foot three? Six foot four? I don't think I've seen a better Warrior since Squidshanks the Frightening… It was a bit before your time, maybe six hundred years ago...' 'She's a she! Not a he!' Hiccup shouted back. But through the helmet it just sounded like 'Mff! Mff! Mff!' We've all been in this situation. Well, maybe not precisely in this situation. But we all know what it's like to have something important to say to a loved one, but something seems to be getting in the way. The truth is, it is often difficult to explain things to a parent. And most definitely it is particularly difficult when your mother is hunting you at top speed through a dark forest under the impression that you are the Enemy of the Wilderwest. The Windwalker had grown into an exceptionally fast dragon, and it was smaller than the Phantom, so its more manoeuvrable size meant it could just about keep ahead, flicking through the maze of trees.

“你觉得他有多大？” 六尺三寸？六英尺四英寸？ 我想，自从可怕的鱿鱼腿之后，我还没见过比他更好的战士……那是在你的时代之前，大概六百年前吧……“她是个女人！”不是他！”小嗝嗝喊道。 但透过头盔听到的只是“Mff!”Mff !Mff !”我们都遇到过这种情况。 也许在这种情况下不太合适。 但我们都知道有重要的事情要对所爱的人说是什么感觉，但似乎有些事情阻碍了我们。 事实是，向父母解释事情往往是很困难的。 尤其是当你的母亲在黑暗的森林里以最快的速度追捕你，还以为你是西部荒野的敌人时，这尤其困难。 风行者已经成长为一条速度异常快的巨龙，而且它比幻影还小，所以它更灵活的体型意味着它几乎可以保持领先，在迷宫般的树木中穿梭。

But still the Phantom was gaining. 'He's going to catch us if we stay down here,' said Toothless. 'Why d-ddon't we go up?' Over the past six months they had often eluded dragon pursuers by climbing up into the higher air, too high for other dragons to follow. Most dragons prefer shallow air, the air nearest the ground. Very few can operate in the higher atmosphere apart from the Silva, Phantom,

但幻影号仍在逼近。 “如果我们呆在下面，他会抓住我们的。”无牙说。 “我们为什么不上去呢？”在过去的六个月里，他们经常爬到更高的空中，其他龙追不上。 大多数龙喜欢靠近地面的浅空气。 除了席尔瓦号，幻影号，

Hiccup wanted to tell them that this would be pointless. The Phantom was an Air Dragon. They were among the best flyers in the dragon world, and they flew the fastest and the highest. Valhallarama had trained herself not to pass out. But of course he couldn't tell them that because of the jammed helmet. The Windwalker slightly mistimed a slalom, swayed crazily, and the pursuing Phantom caught him by the leg, but didn't quite get a good hold, so the Windwalker wriggled desperately out of the grip and shot upwards in a blind panic. 'Oh no…' breathed Hiccup, desperately trying to get him to fly downwards again, but the Windwalker was crazed with fear and panicking madly, so he just climbed up and up and up.

小嗝嗝想告诉他们，这是毫无意义的。 幻影是一架空龙。 他们是龙的世界里最好的飞行员之一，他们飞得最快，飞得最高。 瓦尔哈拉拉马训练自己不要昏倒。 当然，他不能告诉他们，因为他的头盔卡住了。 风行者在一个激流回旋中有点计时错误，疯狂地摇晃，追来的幻影抓住了他的腿，但没有抓住他，所以风行者绝望地扭动着，在盲目的恐慌中向上射击。 “哦，不……”嗝嗝喘着气说，拼命地想让他再往下飞，但风行者被恐惧吓坏了，疯狂地惊慌失措，所以他只是往上爬，往上爬，往上爬。