11 The Bog-Burglar Heir

11. THE BOG-BURGLAR HEIR The Gronckle trotted into the room. It was a large, bare space with a table and a few chairs and some straw in the corner that served for beds. The windows were barred. The boys were clearly not going to have the same luxuries the Romans gave themselves. The Gronckle dropped Fishlegs and Hiccup on the floor and backed out of the room. 'Making yourselves at home,' sneered the First Kidnapper, and the door clanged shut. Standing in the middle of the room was a small girl with wild blonde hair and a ferocious expression. The girl drew her sword with a flourish. 'Who are you? What are your names?' she demanded fiercely. 'Who sent you? Where do you come from?' 'My name is Hiccup,' stammered Hiccup. 'And this is Fishlegs– we're Hooligans…' 'I don't believe you!' yelled the little girl. 'You're Roman spies! Draw your swords and FIGHT like men, you Latin low lives!' The boys looked at the furious little girl in amazement. Fishlegs began to laugh.

11. 沼泽飞贼的继承人咕噜咕噜小跑着走进房间。 这是一个很大的空地方，只有一张桌子和几把椅子，角落里有一些稻草当床用。 窗户被闩上了。男孩们显然不会享受罗马人给自己的奢侈品。 咕噜声把鱼腿和嗝嗝扔在地板上，退了出去。 “别客气，”第一个绑匪冷笑着说，门哐当关上了。 站在房间中央的是一个小女孩，一头乱蓬蓬的金发，一副凶狠的表情。 那女孩挥动着剑。 “你是谁？”你们叫什么名字？她厉声问道。 “谁派你来的？”你是哪里人？“我叫嗝嗝，”嗝嗝结结巴巴地说。 “这是鱼腿——我们是流氓……”小女孩喊道。 “你们是罗马间谍！”拔出你们的剑，像男子汉一样战斗，你们这些拉丁下等人！”男孩们惊奇地看着那个怒不可遏的小女孩。 鱼腿笑了起来。

He wasn't laughing two seconds later when the little girl cut the cord of his trousers and they fell down around his ankles. 'Hey!' objected Fishlegs, indignantly hauling them up again. 'Watch what you're doing with that sword!' In reply the little girl hoisted the sword over her head and ran towards Hiccup shouting the Bog- Burglar War Cry, which sounds like a very rude word shouted at the top of the lungs. Hiccup drew his sword just in time to parry her lunge, and they began to fight. Last year, Hiccup had found out that he was left-handed. Since then, he had discovered he had a gift for sword-fighting. It was the only thing on the Pirate Training Programme he was truly good at. He could beat even Oikish and Dogsbreath quite easily, and was having extra lessons with Gormless the Grim,

两秒钟后，他还没笑出声来，小女孩割断了他裤子上的带子，裤子顺着他的脚踝掉了下来。 “嘿!鱼腿反对道，愤怒地把它们拖了上来。 “小心你拿着那把剑在干什么！”作为回答，小女孩把剑举过头顶，朝嗝嗝跑去，嘴里喊着沼泽飞贼的战嚎，听起来像是扯着嗓子喊出了一个非常粗鲁的词。 嗝嗝及时拔出剑，挡开了她的猛攻，他们开始搏斗。 去年，Hiccup发现他是左撇子。 从那以后，他发现自己有一种剑术天赋。 这是他在海盗训练计划中唯一真正擅长的事情。 他甚至可以轻而易举地打败奥克希语和狗息语，而且还在和冷酷无情的无脑一起补课，

the best sword-fighter in the Hooligan Tribe. But this little girl was just as good at sword- fighting as Hiccup. Her arm moved so quickly you could hardly see it. She turned cartwheels between moves. And she TALKED constantly throughout, which made it difficult to concentrate. 'FIGHT, you nano-eating, locust-baking, toga- wearing, Jupiter-worshipper! Ooooh you're actually quite good at this– for a boy– I've been getting SO bored, you have no idea…' 'Can't we just have a quiet talk about this?' asked Hiccup breathlessly. 'There really is no need for us to be fighting…' But the little girl took absolutely no notice of him and carried on talking. 'I see you know the Grimbeard's Grapple, and the Flashcut Lunge, and the Deathwatch Parry, and the—'

他是流氓部落里最好的击剑手。 但是这个小女孩和小嗝嗝一样擅长剑术。 她的胳膊移动得太快了，你几乎看不见。 她在动作之间翻筋斗。 而且她在整个过程中不停地说话，这使我很难集中注意力。 “战斗吧，你这个吃纳米的、烤蝗虫的、穿长袍的、拜木星的家伙！”哦，你真的很擅长这个——作为一个男孩——我已经很无聊了，你不知道……”“我们不能安静地谈谈吗？嗝嗝上气不接下气地问。 “我们真的没有必要吵架……”但小女孩完全不理会他，继续说话。 “我看你知道格林大胡子的抓钩，闪电冲刺，守望者的招式，还有——”

'Will you STOP!' panted Hiccup, frantically parrying all of these moves, and getting his sleeve cut off in the process. 'My name really is Hiccup… I really am a Hooligan…' 'I don't believe you,' said the little girl. 'You're a Roman SPY! Admit it, or I will UNZIP you from your BREADBASKET to your OYSTERGOBBLER! Oooooooh your defence is a bit WEAK, you know, you should really work on that… otherwise, a person could just nip through– and…' She made a perfectly executed lunge which Hiccup parried at the last minute but which cut off his second sleeve. 'Whoops!' crowed the little girl joyfully. 'There goes the other one!' 'I– AM– NOT– A– ROMAN…' gasped Hiccup, his back against the wall. 'Well, a Hooligan isn't much better,' said the little girl, pausing for a second and then carrying on. 'My mother says the only good Hooligan is a dead Hooligan.' 'That's funny,' panted Hiccup, 'because my father says that the only good Bog-Burglar is a dead Bog-Burglar– and the really amusing thing is, unless we join together, in about two weeks' time, we are

“你能不能别说了！”小嗝嗝喘着气说，疯狂地躲避着所有这些动作，在这个过程中，他的袖子被剪断了。 “我的名字真的是小嗝嗝……我真的是个小流氓……” “你是罗马间谍！”承认吧，不然我就把你从你的面包篮里解到你的牡蛎罐头里！“哦——哦——哦——哦——哦——哦——你的防御有点弱，你知道，你真的应该在这方面多下功夫……否则，一个人可能就会钻进去——然后……”她做了一个完美的箭步，小嗝嗝在最后一刻挡开了，但割断了他的第二根袖子。 “哎呀!小女孩高兴地叫道。 “另一个走了！”“我——我——不是——罗马人……”嗝嗝背靠着墙喘着气说。 “嗯，流氓也好不到哪里去，”小女孩说，停了一下，然后继续说下去。 “我妈妈说唯一好的足球流氓就是死的足球流氓。“这真有趣，”嗝嗝喘着气说，“因为我父亲说，唯一好的沼泽飞贼就是死去的沼泽飞贼——真正有趣的是，除非我们在大约两个星期内联合起来，否则我们就是死了。

both going to be VERY GOOD, and VERY DEAD.' 'Oh BOTHER,' sighed the girl, stopping at last. Now that she wasn't moving around so much, Hiccup could see that she really was quite a small girl, at least a head shorter than he was. 'I was really looking forward to spilling some blood.'

两个人都会很好，也会死得很惨。“噢，真讨厌，”女孩叹了口气，最后停了下来。 现在她不怎么走动了，嗝嗝可以看出她真的是一个很小的女孩，至少比他矮一头。 “我真的很期待流血。”