2 The fight with Dogsbreath the Duhbrain

2. THE FIGHT WITH DOGSBREATH THE DUHBRAIN Dogsbreath stood, pawing the deck in anticipation. 'KILL HIM, DOGSBREATH!' shouted Snotface Snotlout, Dogsbreath's friend and fellow bully. Snotlout LOATHED Hiccup. 'I will,' grinned Dogsbreath. 'This will be a massacre,' hissed Dogsbreath's dragon Seaslug, an ugly great Gronckle with a pug nose and a mean temper. 'My master will tear this Hiccup limb from limb and throw him to the gulls.' 'D-d-don't bet on it,' said Toothless, without a lot of conviction, and he gave Seaslug a sharp nip on the tail before scrambling for cover underneath one of the rowing benches. Hiccup edged forward towards the hulking figure of Dogsbreath, swallowing hard. He tried to remember what The Hero's Handbook had said about swordfighting an opponent much bigger than yourself… Something about ducking about, letting the enemy exhaust himself, using his own

2. 与狗的呼吸斗狗的呼吸站在那里，用爪子刨着甲板，期待着。 “杀了他，狗屎！”鼻涕虫喊道，他是狗狗呼吸的朋友和恶霸伙伴。 小鼻子讨厌嗝嗝。“我会的，”狗呼吸咧嘴笑着说。 “这将是一场大屠杀。”狗狗呼吸的龙海蛞蝓嘶嘶地说，这是一只长着巴哥鼻子、脾气很坏的丑陋的大龟。 “我的主人要把这个嗝嗝撕成碎片，扔给海鸥吃。“别——别——别这么想。”无牙说，口气不大有把握，他在海蛞蝓的尾巴上狠狠地咬了一下，然后爬到一条划桨长凳下面躲了起来。 小嗝嗝慢慢地向大块头狗息走去，使劲吞咽着口水。 他努力回忆《英雄手册》中关于与比自己大得多的对手斗剑的描述……关于闪避，让敌人耗尽自己的精力，利用自己的力量

body weight against him… 'D-d-don't let him c-c-catch you!' advised Toothless, appearing for a moment from underneath the bench and then diving back into his hiding-place as Seaslug lunged at him with a crunching crash of razor-sharp teeth. Hiccup stepped forward lightly and calmly, looking Dogsbreath straight in the mean, piggy little eyes. Dogsbreath grinned nastily at him, and aimed a huge flailing swipe at his head. Hiccup ducked. 'Yay, HICCUP!'cheered Fishlegs. 'That's the way to do it!' Dogsbreath looked rather surprised. He swiped at Hiccup again, even more violently. And again Hiccup ducked. This time he was so quick about it that Dogsbreath staggered and nearly lost his footing. 'HIC-CUP! HIC-CUP! HIC-CUP!' yelled most of the boys. (Hiccup was popular with the other boys at the time because a month before he had single-handedly killed a Sea Dragon that threatened the whole Tribe.)* *See How to Train Your Dragon, the first volume of Hiccup's memoirs.

“别——别——别让他——抓住你！”无牙建议道，他从长凳底下钻了一会儿，然后又钻回了他的藏身之处，这时海蛞蝓发出一声锋利的牙齿嘎吱嘎吱地向他扑来。 小嗝嗝轻轻地、平静地走上前去，直勾勾地盯着狗狗的小眼睛。 狗息恶狠狠地朝他咧嘴一笑，然后朝他的脑袋猛击了一下。 打嗝回避。“耶,打嗝!“Fishlegs欢呼。 “就应该这样做！”狗息看起来很惊讶。 他又朝小嗝嗝打去，打得更狠了。 小嗝嗝又一次躲开了。这次他动作太快了，狗息踉跄了一下，差点失足。 “HIC-CUP !HIC-CUP !HIC-CUP !大多数男孩喊道。 （小嗝嗝当时在其他男孩中很受欢迎，因为一个月前，他一手杀死了一条威胁整个部落的海龙。）* *参见《如何训练你的龙》，小嗝嗝回忆录的第一卷。

Hiccup felt a little bubble of happiness somewhere inside him. This was great. Now Dogsbreath was getting cross. He snorted furiously, and lunged forward straight at Hiccup's heart. Hiccup dodged nimbly out of the way and… slipped on a slimy piece of the deck and…Dogsbreath reached out one meaty fist and… grabbed Hiccup by the back of the shirt and caught him. This was not so great. 'OK,' thought Hiccup. 'So he's caught me. What do I do now then?' Toothless burst out from underneath the bench and hovered for a second or two, three inches from Hiccup's nose, shrieking, 'S-S-SUBMIT! S-S-SUBMIT! S-S-SUBMIT!' at the top of his voice before zooming back to safety. 'I can't submit,' said Hiccup indignantly.

小嗝嗝感到内心有一股幸福的泡沫。 这太棒了。现在Dogsbreath开始生气了。 他狂怒地哼了一声，径直扑向嗝嗝的心脏。 小嗝嗝敏捷地闪开了，滑到了甲板上一块黏糊糊的地方，狗息伸出一只肥肥的拳头，抓住了小嗝嗝的后背，把他抓住了。 这不是很好。“好吧，”小嗝嗝想。 “这么说他抓住我了。那我现在该怎么办呢？”无牙从长凳下面蹿了出来，在离嗝嗝鼻子三英寸的地方盘旋了一两秒钟，尖叫着：“屈服！屈服！”S-S-SUBMIT !S-S-SUBMIT !在急速飞回安全地带之前，他扯着嗓子说道。 “我不能屈服，”小嗝嗝愤怒地说。

'I'm supposed to be this Pirate Hero. Pirates don't submit.' 'Oh goodee,' said Dogsbreath happily before whacking Hiccup briskly on the helmet a few times with his sword. Hiccup tried to stop him, but each time he was too slow to protect himself. 'This is just embarrassing,' thought Hiccup as Dogsbreath's sword clanged off his helmet for the third time. 'Time to try a few moves.' He had a go at the Destroyer's Defence. He could see himself in his mind's eye, elegant, stylish. But when his brain tried to tell his arm what to do, his arm responded in this clumsy, fumbling way, and Dogsbreath grabbed hold of the fancy Swiftpoint Scaremaker and threw it over the side into the ocean. There were hoots and jeers from the watching Vikings. Fishlegs and Toothless winced. 'Toothless can't l-l-look,' moaned Toothless, with his wings over his eyes. 'S-S-SUBMIT, you stupid human.'

“我应该是这个海盗英雄。 海盗是不会屈服的。“哦，太好了。”狗息高兴地说，然后用他的剑在嗝嗝的头盔上轻快地敲了几下。 小嗝嗝试图阻止他，但每次他都动作太慢，无法保护自己。 “这太尴尬了，”嗝嗝想，这时狗息的剑第三次打在他的头盔上。 “是时候尝试几个动作了。”他尝试了驱逐舰的防御。 他可以在脑海中看到自己，优雅，时髦。 但是，当他的大脑试图告诉他的手臂该做什么时，他的手臂却以这种笨拙、笨拙的方式做出了回应，于是，Dogsbreath一把抓住了那台别致的Swiftpoint惊吓机，把它扔进了海里。 围观的维京人发出了嘘声和嘲笑。 鱼腿和无牙退缩了。 “没牙——没牙——没法看。”没牙呻吟着，用翅膀遮住了眼睛。 “屈服吧，你这个愚蠢的人类。”

'What are you going to do, Hiccup?' sneered Snotlout. 'Fight him with your bare hands? Or SUBMIT?' 'No way,' said Hiccup stubbornly. Dogsbreath moved in for the kill with a few breath-quenching jabs to the stomach. 'Oh for THOR'S SAKE, Hiccup,' yelled Gobber in exasperation. 'You're fighting like an infant. You're not going to get anywhere by lying on the floor groaning. Bite him on the ankle or SOMETHING.' 'He's USELESS,' crowed Snotlout gleefully. 'Hiccup the Useless, didn't I tell you? All that Dragon-Killing last month was just a fluke. USELESS, USE-LESS, USE-LESS…' Boys are very fickle. Hiccup's popularity vanished on the spot. They started chanting 'USE-LESS, USE-LESS, USE-LESS…' The dragons joined in eagerly. 'Scratch his eyes out!' screeched Brightclaw. 'Tear his wings off!' howled Fireworm. 'S-s-submit,' moaned Toothless. With a snort of satisfaction, Dogsbreath threw away his own sword and got down to the business he really enjoyed, hand-to-hand combat. Dogsbreath was

“你打算怎么办，小嗝嗝？”鼻涕鼻子讥笑道。 “赤手空拳跟他打？” 或提交吗?“不可能，”嗝嗝固执地说。 “狗息”向它的腹部猛击了几下，让人窒息。 “哦，看在上帝的份上，小嗝嗝。”戈伯恼怒地喊道。 “你像个婴儿一样打架。 你躺在地板上呻吟是不会有任何结果的。 咬他的脚踝什么的。“他一点用也没有。” “没用的嗝嗝，我不是告诉过你吗？” 上个月的屠龙行动只是个侥幸。 没用的，没用的，没用的……”男孩都很善变。 小嗝嗝的人气随即消失。 他们开始高喊“没用的，没用的，没用的……”龙也急切地加入了进来。 “把他的眼睛挖出来！”布莱特克劳尖声说。 “把他的翅膀扯下来！”萤火虫吼道。 “屈服。”无牙呻吟道。 狗息满意地哼了一声，扔掉了自己的剑，开始了他真正喜欢的事情——肉搏战。 Dogsbreath是