1 Swordfighting at sea (Beginners Only)

1. SWORDFIGHTING AT SEA (BEGINNERS ONLY) Thor was SERIOUSLY annoyed. He had sent a mighty summer storm to claw up the seas around the bleak little Isle of Berk. A black wind was shrieking across the wild and angry ocean. Furious thunder boomed overhead. Lightning speared into the water. Only a madman would think it was the kind of weather for a pleasant sail. But, amazingly, there was one ship being hurled violently from wave to wave, the hungry ocean chewing at her sides, hoping to tip her over and swallow the souls aboard and grind their bones into sand.

1. 海上剑术（只限初学者）索尔非常恼火。 他发动了一场强大的夏季风暴，将荒凉的博克小岛周围的海面刮得波涛汹涌。 一股黑色的风呼啸着掠过狂暴的海洋。 猛烈的雷声在头顶轰鸣。 闪电刺入水中。 只有疯子才会认为这种天气适合愉快地航行。 但是，令人惊奇的是，有一艘船被猛烈地从一个海浪冲到另一个海浪，饥饿的海洋在它的两侧咀嚼，希望把它翻倒，吞下船上的灵魂，把他们的骨头磨成沙子。

The madman in charge of this ship was Gobber the Belch. Gobber ran the Pirate Training Programme on the Isle of Berk and this crazy voyage was, in fact, one of Gobber's lessons, Swordfighting at Sea– (Beginners Only). 'OK, YOU DRIPPY LOT!' yelled Gobber, a six-and-a-half-foot hairy muscle-bound lunatic, with a beard like a ferret having a fit and biceps the size of your head. 'PUT YOUR BACKS INTO IT, FOR THOR'S SAKE. YOU ARE NOT AN ICKLE PRETTY JELLYFISH… HICCUP, YOU ARE ROWING LIKE AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD… THE FAT BIT OF THE OAR GOES IN THE WATER… WE HAVEN'T GOT ALL YEAR TO GET THERE…' etc. etc. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third gritted his teeth as a big wave came screaming over the side and hit him full in the face. Hiccup is, in fact, the Hero of this story, although you would never have guessed this to look at him. He was on the small side and had the sort of face that was almost entirely unmemorable. There were twelve other boys struggling with the oars of that ship, and practically all of them looked

掌管这艘船的疯子是打嗝的戈贝尔。 戈伯在博克岛上开办了海盗培训课程，而这次疯狂的航行实际上是戈伯的课程之一，《海上剑术》（仅限初学者）。 “好吧，你们这些讨厌鬼！”戈伯喊道，他是一个长着六英尺半毛、肌肉发达的疯子，胡子长得像患了癫痫的雪貂，二头肌和你的头一样大。 “看在上帝的份上，把你们的背放进去。 你不是可爱的水母……嗝嗝，你像个八岁的孩子一样划桨……桨的肥头在水里……我们没有一年的时间去那里……”等等。 等。可怕的黑线鳕三世咬紧牙关，一个巨浪从船边呼啸而过，打在他的脸上。 事实上，嗝嗝是这个故事的主角，尽管你从他身上永远猜不到这一点。 他个子偏小，长着一张几乎完全让人难以记住的脸。 船上还有另外十二个男孩在奋力划桨，几乎每个人都在看

more like Viking Heroes than Hiccup did. Wartihog, for instance, was only eleven, but he already had a fine crop of bubbling adolescent pimples and a personal odour problem. Dogsbreath could row as hard as anybody else with one hand, while picking his nose with the other. Snotlout was a natural leader. Clueless had ear hair. Hiccup was just absolutely average, the kind of unremarkable, skinny, freckled boy who was easy to overlook in a crowd.

更像维京英雄而不是小嗝嗝 例如，战猪只有11岁，但他已经长了一大堆冒泡的青春痘，而且还有个人气味的问题。 狗呼吸可以用一只手划得和其他人一样用力，同时用另一只手挖鼻子。 鼻涕精是个天生的领袖。 独领风骚有耳毛。小嗝嗝绝对是一个普通的男孩，在人群中很容易被忽视。