20 Oh Dear

20. OH DEAR Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. And that doesn't really cover it. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh DEAR. You would have thought that you had heard the worst of it, wouldn't you, that Hiccup had had all that he could take. But, OH DEAR. It's the little details we should not forget, the little things that catch us up, and trip us. The Warriors of the Wilderwest always set the dragon-traps in twos. so that if some other poor dragon landed beside to help another, then it would get caught too. SNAP! The second trap snapped shut, catching the Deadly Shadow in its cruel jaws. The Deadly Shadow put back its heads and howled the truly dreadful howl that a dragon howls when it is caught in a trap. It is an awful sound, for a dragon is a wild creature of the air, and so its horror of being trapped is such a ghastly wail of ultimate despair it is almost unbearable. These howls were multiplied three times, and the dragon sent out great bolts of lightning all around it –north, south, east and west– with such randomness that Hiccup and Camicazi had to duck behind the

20.。哦亲爱的，哦亲爱的，哦亲爱的，哦亲爱的。 这还没有完全涵盖。 天哪，天哪，天哪，天哪，天哪。 你会以为你已经听到了最坏的消息，不是吗？小嗝嗝已经受够了。 但是，天哪。我们不应该忘记的是那些小细节，那些让我们陷入困境、绊倒我们的小事情。 狂野西部的勇士总是把捕龙器分成两组。 因此，如果其他可怜的龙降落在旁边帮助另一条龙，那么它也会被抓住。 中计了!第二个陷阱啪的一声关上了，用它残忍的嘴咬住了死亡之影。 死亡之影收回了它的头，发出真正可怕的嚎叫，就像龙被困在陷阱里时发出的嚎叫一样。 这是一种可怕的声音，因为龙是一种空中的野兽，所以它被困的恐惧是一种极度绝望的可怕的哀号，几乎让人无法忍受。 这些嚎叫增加了三倍，恶龙的周围——东、南、东、西——都发出了巨大的闪电，如此随意，Hiccup和Camicazi不得不躲在后面

sand-yacht. (Not that this would have been much good to them if the Deadly Shadow had scored a direct hit with a lightning bolt, but it's a sort of automatic reaction thing.) The dragon howled and thrashed but it could not work its foot free. Hiccup put his head above the edge of the sand- yacht and shouted, 'I can free your foot from the dragon-trap if you let me come near!' And then ducked as a lightning bolt came singing over the top of his head, and there was a smell of burnt hair. There was silence for a second, apart from the sound of the dragon heads arguing among themselves. At last Patience called out, 'Come closse then…' Hiccup stepped gingerly forward. The Deadly Shadow was lying on its side. It was trembling. Hiccup swallowed as he saw the trap. It was immense and one of the most complicated he had ever seen, a fiendish contraption of clockwork complexity. It was far more complicated than it even needed to be to do its dreadful work, almost as if its maker had been showing off when he designed it. Hiccup stroked the dragon's shining side soothingly.

sand-yacht。（如果致命阴影被闪电直接击中，这对他们来说并没有多大好处，但这是一种自动反应。）龙嚎叫着捶打着，但它无法挣脱它的脚。 小嗝嗝把头伸出游艇的边缘，喊道：“如果你让我靠近，我可以把你的脚从捕龙器里解救出来！”接着，一道闪电从他头顶呼啸而过，一股头发烧焦的味道扑鼻而来。 沉默了一秒钟，只听到龙头们互相争吵的声音。 最后佩兴斯喊道：“那就靠近点……”嗝嗝小心翼翼地走上前去。 死亡之影侧身躺着。 它在颤抖。嗝嗝一看到陷阱就咽了一口唾沫。 它巨大无比，是他所见过的最复杂的东西之一，是一个像发条一样复杂的恶魔般的装置。 它的复杂程度远远超过了完成这项可怕工作所需的复杂程度，就好像它的制造者在设计它时一直在炫耀一样。 小嗝嗝安慰地抚摸着龙闪亮的一面。

'I can do this…' he said. 'I can do this…' Thank Thor he had spent the last six months learning how to undo dragon-traps. Hiccup took off his waistcoat and knelt by the trap. Camicazi drew both swords, and started pacing around the Deadly Shadow, just as he had paced around Hiccup and Camicazi, earlier in the day.

“我能做到……”他说。 “我能做到……”多亏了托尔，他花了六个月的时间学习如何解开龙的陷阱。 小嗝嗝脱下马甲，跪在陷阱旁。 Camicazi抽出两把剑，开始在死亡之影周围踱步，就像他在当天早些时候在Hiccup和Camicazi周围踱步一样。