2 Sharkworms!!!

2. SHARKWORMS Just as the sound of the bugle died away, the fog lifted, for a second giving a glimpse of the entire bay. Over to the right, further towards the grey outline of the Peaceable Country, there were the shadowy shapes of four or five Peaceable fishing boats, surrounded by clouds of screeching Blackbacked Seadragons. 'Over there!' yelled Sharpknife and Tuffnut Junior, turning their boat, The Raven. 'It's all under control, Fishlegs!' shouted Hiccup excitedly. 'I can see where we're going!' Hiccup yanked the rudder of The Hopeful Puffin so sharply that Fishlegs lost his balance and fell face first into the water at the bottom of the boat. The wind caught the sails at exactly the right speed and The Hopeful Puffin surged forward after the others… But Hiccup hadn't noticed Snotlout's boat, Sparrowhawk, steaming up behind him at great speed. Sparrowhawk was as lean and mean and hungry as Snotlout himself. Beautifully built out of elm wood, she came to a point so sharp at the prow that she sliced through the water as easily as an axe through a

2. 号角声刚消逝，雾就散了，在那一瞬间，整个海湾一览无遗。 在右边，更靠近“和平之国”灰色轮廓的地方，有四五艘“和平之国”渔船的影子，它们被一群尖叫的黑背海龙包围着。 “在那边!”尖刀和小塔夫纳特喊道，一边转动着他们的船“乌鸦号”。 “一切都在控制之中，鱼腿！”小嗝嗝兴奋地喊道。 “我能看见我们要去的地方！”小嗝嗝猛拉着“希望海雀”号的舵，使“鱼腿”失去平衡，脸朝下掉到船底的水里。 风以恰到好处的速度吹着船帆，“希望海雀”号紧随其他几艘船向前冲去……但是小嗝嗝没有注意到鼻涕鼻子的船“雀鹰”号正以极快的速度在他身后冒着蒸汽。 雀鹰和鼻鼻子一样又瘦又小气又饿。 这艘美丽的船是用榆树木建造的，船头有一个尖尖的地方，她像斧头劈斧头一样轻松地划破水面

scallop. She was being steered by Dogsbreath the Duhbrain, Snotlout's best friend – a great, hairy bully of a boy with a ring through his nose, who was snorting so hard with laughter that snot flew in all directions. 'Get him, Fireworm,' whispered Snotface Snotlout, and his dragon, a glistening blood-red Monstrous Nightmare, leaped from Snotlout's shoulder and dive-bombed Hiccup from behind with a furious shriek. Fireworm swooped down and pushed Hiccup's helmet down over his eyes with her talons. Hiccup took his hands off the rudder in surprise, and at the same moment, Sparrowhawk rammed into the port

扇贝。她的舵手是傻狗斯瑞特，他是鼻涕精最好的朋友——一个长着毛的大块头男孩，鼻子上戴着一个环，他笑得很厉害，鼻子喷得到处都是鼻涕。 “抓住他，火虫。”鼻涕脸鼻鼻子悄声说，他的火龙，一条闪闪发光的血红色梦魇怪物，从鼻子鼻子的肩膀上跳了起来，发出一声狂怒的尖叫，从后面猛扑向小嗝嗝。 萤火虫俯冲下来，用爪子把小嗝嗝的头盔推到他的眼睛上。 小嗝嗝惊讶地把手从舵上移开，与此同时，雀鹰撞进了左舷

side of The Hopeful Puffin, denting her severely. 'So sorry, Useless!' jeered Snotface Snotlout, as Sparrowhawk sailed on, completely unhurt. 'Your pathetic raft is so small we didn't see you!' 'Har har har,' guffawed Dogsbreath the Duhbrain. The ramming sent The Hopeful Puffin into one of her spins. For a long time she spun round in wobbly circles, like a confused

《满怀希望的海雀》的一面，严重地咬伤了她。 “太抱歉了，没用的！”鼻涕精嘲笑道，而雀鹰却安然无恙地继续航行。 “你那可怜的木筏太小了，我们都没看见你！”“哈，哈，哈，”狗屎喘哈哈大笑。 撞击使“希望海雀”开始旋转。 很长一段时间，她摇摇晃晃地打转，像个糊涂蛋

sea-urchin. Eventually, Hiccup regained control of the rudder and Fishlegs picked himself up from the bottom of the boat, moaning slightly. The Hopeful Puffin completed her final spin and began moving swiftly forwards. But the fog had come down again, if anything even thicker than before. After all that spinning,

海胆。最后，嗝嗝重新控制了舵，鱼腿从船底爬了起来，发出轻微的呻吟。 满怀希望的海雀完成了最后的旋转，开始快速向前移动。 但是雾又降了下来，甚至比以前更浓了。 在旋转之后，

Hiccup had absolutely no idea which direction they were facing. And when the last faint echoes of Snotlout and Dogsbreath's jeering had faded away, they sailed on in spooky silence. 'Where is everybody?' asked Fishlegs. 'Ssssh,' scolded Hiccup. 'I'm trying to listen.' The boys were quiet for ten long minutes. The only sound to be heard was the lapping of water against the sides of the boat and a brisk wind filling out the sail. They were gliding along at quite a rate now, but where were they going? Hiccup and Fishlegs strained their eyes into the fog and their ears into the silence, desperate to see or hear something, anything at all. But there was nothing. It might have been Hiccup's imagination playing tricks on him, but it seemed to him as if the air suddenly felt just a tiny bit warmer, and when he trailed a finger briefly into the water it felt just a tiny bit less icy than it should have done. And then he got to thinking about the Summer Current and Sharkworms and a prickle of fear ran all down his back, and everywhere about him the drifting, ghostly fog seemed to be taking the shape of Sharkworm fins…

小嗝嗝完全不知道他们面对的是哪个方向。 当鼻鼻子和狗息嘲笑的最后微弱回声消失后，他们在阴森的寂静中继续航行。 “人都到哪儿去了？”鱼腿问。 “嘘，”嗝嗝骂道。“我在努力倾听。”孩子们安静了足足十分钟。 唯一能听到的声音是水拍打船舷的声音和轻快的风鼓起船帆的声音。 他们现在正以相当快的速度滑行着，但他们要去哪里呢？ 小嗝嗝和鱼腿把眼睛伸进雾里，把耳朵伸进寂静里，迫切地想看到或听到什么，哪怕是什么。 但是什么也没有。也许是小嗝嗝的想象力捉弄了他，但在他看来，空气似乎突然暖和了一点，当他把一根手指伸到水里的时候，感觉比本来应该冰凉的感觉少了一点。 接着，他想起了夏流和鲨鱼虫，一阵恐惧的刺痛顺着他的背涌了下来，他周围到处都是漂浮着的幽灵般的雾，好像是鲨鱼虫鳍的形状……

'Just out of interest,' asked Fishlegs casually, 'how does a Sharkworm attack you, exactly?' 'Well,' replied Hiccup, changing direction yet again in the hope of getting back to the safety of the bay, 'Sharkworms should only attack if you are wounded. Even if you're not in the water they can smell the blood and that drives them crazy. And then, because they have legs as well as a fishy tail, they can actually CLIMB ABOARD a ship to get you. That's where they got their nickname of "Pirate Dragons", because, although they can survive at least ten minutes in the air, they generally drag you back into the water to kill you.' 'Oh, brilliant,' said Fishlegs, frantically checking himself all over to see if he had any grazes. 'Do you think eczema counts or does it have to be an actual cut?' 'I'm not sure,' said Hiccup. 'I've never actually met a Sharkworm.' 'Better and better,' said Fishlegs. 'It's at times like this that I am so glad that I was born a Viking and not a Roman.' (The Romans were the Vikings' deadly enemies – a very bossy lot who wanted to take over the world and had jolly nearly got there.) 'Think how BORING it would be to be a Roman. All those warm

“只是出于兴趣，”鱼腿漫不经心地问，“鲨鱼虫到底是怎么攻击你的？”“嗯，”小嗝嗝回答道，又一次改变了方向，希望能回到安全的海湾，“鲨鱼虫只有在你受伤的时候才会攻击你。” 即使你不在水里，他们也能闻到血的味道，这让他们发疯。 然后，因为它们有腿和鱼尾巴，它们可以爬上船来救你。 这就是它们的绰号“海盗龙”的由来，因为尽管它们可以在空中存活至少十分钟，但它们通常会把你拖回水中杀死你。“哦，太棒了，”鱼腿说，疯狂地检查着自己的身体，看有没有吃草。 “你认为湿疹算不算，还是只有真正的伤口才算？”“我不确定，”小嗝嗝说。 “我从来没见过鲨鱼虫。“越来越好了，”鱼腿说。 “每当这种时候，我就会为自己生为维京人而不是罗马人而感到高兴。（罗马人是维京人的死敌——一群非常专横的人，他们想要统治世界，而且几乎就要实现了。）“想想当罗马人该有多无聊。 所有这些温暖