10 Treachery and Betrayal

10. TREACHERY AND BETRAYAL As his eyes grew accustomed to the light, Hiccup realised he must be in the crooked Great Hall, right in the centre of the floating town. This assembly room was crudely fashioned out of the upturned hulls of three ancient Viking ships that had once been sunk by the reefs of Wrecker's Bay. Around the edges of the room were cages, containing human and dragon prisoners, stacked on top of one another, right up to the ceiling. In the centre of the Hall stood the Alvinsmen. The Alvinsmen were a grim, tattooed, unsightly crew of vicious and murderous criminals, who had once been the more unpleasant members of the Visithug, Murderous, Outcast, Hysteric and Uglithug Tribes. The nastier side of the Archipelago had all followed Alvin and the witch, and had grown ghastlier as a result. It had brought out the worst in them. The Alvinsmen dragged Hiccup into the centre of the Hall and pushed him forwards, in front of a man in an iron mask. Snotlout swaggered in afterwards. It took a few seconds for Hiccup to recognise

10. 当他的眼睛渐渐适应了光线，嗝嗝意识到他一定是在歪歪斜斜的大厅里，就在漂浮的小镇的中心。 这个会议室是用三艘曾经被沉船湾的礁石击沉的古代维京船的翻过来的船体粗糙地改造而成的。 房间的边缘有几个笼子，里面关着人类和龙的囚犯，一个摞一个，一直到天花板。 阿尔文家的人站在庄园的中央。 阿尔文人是一群面目狰狞、文身刺青、面目可憎的凶狠、凶残的罪犯，他们曾经是Visithug、凶残的、被放逐的、歇斯底里的和丑陋的部落中最令人讨厌的成员。 群岛上肮脏的一面都跟着阿尔文和女巫，结果变得更加可怕了。 它把他们最坏的一面显露出来了。 阿尔文家的人把小嗝嗝拖到礼堂中央，推着他往前走，站在一个戴着铁面具的人面前。 后来，鼻涕精大摇大摆地走了进来。 小嗝嗝花了几秒钟才认出来

the man in the iron mask as Alvin the Treacherous. Alvin's mother had given Alvin a nasty case of warts. As Alvin had gained in power, so too had his warts: multiplying, blossoming, and blooming in mushrooming abundance. Big warts had given birth to little warts, and those little warts in their turn had grown and swelled and had babies and burst across his face like joyful volcanoes spewing pus, ripening and germinating in such rosy profusion that his face had swelled beyond all recognition. What had begun as happy additions, spotty little adornments to his beauty, had ended finally in disfigurement. So Alvin was wearing an iron mask, to hide his swollen face. Beneath the mask, the warts had swollen up his lips as if they had been stung by bees.

那个戴着铁面具的人就是叛徒阿尔文 阿尔文的母亲让阿尔文长了一颗讨厌的疣。 随着阿尔文的权力越来越大，他的缺点也越来越多：像蘑菇一样繁殖、开花、盛开。 大疣又生小疣，小疣又长又肿，生了孩子，像欢乐的火山喷出的脓液一样，在他的脸上爆发出来，成熟了，发芽了，红彤彤的，他的脸肿得认不出来了。 一开始是他美丽外表的愉快的补充，斑点的小点缀，最后却以毁容而告终。 所以艾尔文戴着一个铁面具，以掩盖他肿胀的脸。 在面具下，他嘴唇上的疣肿得像被蜜蜂蜇过一样。

That, and the grill across his mouth, gave his breathing and his voice a dreadful rasping quality. He was wearing none of the Lost Things… not even the ruby heart's stone bracelet. Alvin was now a Man-of-War. He was a Warrior made almost entirely out of metal, from his gleaming hook to the spears and swords and arrows hanging around his person. Even his ivory leg was capped in steel. Along with many other dreadful instruments of war suspended around his waist, he had not only Dragonmarker helmets, but the sad remnants of their beards. On recognition of Hiccup, he let out a yell of delight that was distorted by the grill of the mask into a rasping animal screech. The Witch Excellinor bounded over on all fours.

这一点，再加上他嘴巴上的铁栅栏，使他的呼吸和声音变得刺耳得可怕。 他没有戴任何一件失物……甚至连那颗红宝石心形石手镯也没有。 阿尔文号现在是一艘战舰。 他是一个几乎完全由金属制成的战士，从他闪闪发光的钩子到挂在他身上的矛、剑和箭。 就连他的象牙腿也戴着钢盔。 除了腰上挂着许多可怕的战争工具，他不仅戴着龙的标志头盔，还留着令人伤心的胡须。 一认出嗝嗝，他就发出一声高兴的喊叫，但被面具的格栅扭曲成了刺耳的动物叫声。 女巫优异官四肢着地跳了过来。

She was a long, lean wolf skeleton with a terrible dead whiteness to her, bleached of all human kindness and colour. She ought to have been a woman, but her semi-baldness and her tattoos and the long white hairs sprouting in a little beard on her jutting chin seemed to suggest something else. In one bound she pinned Hiccup to the floor, a wild animal about to strike, and she opened up her terrible jaws with those shark-like teeth, ground and sharpened into points, and screamed so loudly that she showered poor Hiccup with her horrible witch-spittle:

她是一具又长又瘦的狼骨架，浑身惨白得可怕，把人类的善良和色彩都漂白了。 她本来应该是个女人，可是她的半秃顶，身上的文身，下巴上的小胡子里长出的长长的白发，似乎说明了别的什么东西。 她一跳就把小嗝嗝按在地板上，这是一只正要攻击的野兽，她张开她那鲨鱼一样的牙齿，尖得像尖牙，尖叫得那么大声，把她那可怕的女巫唾沫洒在可怜的小嗝嗝身上。

'WE'VE GOT HIM! WE'VE GOT HIM, THE LITTLE WRETCH! VICTORY IS OURS!' Hiccup shrank away from her, for she was terrifying, and whatever dead animal she had been chewing on had stuck between her teeth and made her breath stink. Great cheers went up from the Alvinsmen. Groans from the Dragonmarker prisoners, held in the cages on the edges of the room. The witch reared up on her hind legs, dragging Hiccup to his feet. 'Oh, well done, Snotlout, well done!' she carolled. 'Well done, my poisonous boy! Hiccup believed you!'

“我们抓住他了！”我们抓住他了，这个小坏蛋！胜利是我们的！”嗝嗝躲得远远的，因为她太可怕了，而且不管她嚼的是什么动物的尸体，她的牙齿都粘住了，嘴里发出臭味。 阿尔文家的人发出了热烈的欢呼声。 被关在房间边缘的笼子里的龙标记囚犯发出呻吟声。 女巫用后腿直立起来，拖着小嗝嗝站了起来。 “哦，干得好，鼻涕鼻子，干得好！”她唱道。 “干得好，我的毒孩子！”小嗝嗝相信你了！”