14 The Potato-Burglars’ Run

14. THE POTATO- BURGLARS' RUN They appeared, blinking like moles, into the daylight, for night had turned into morning while they were in the Hysterical Great Hall; the sky was no longer black but the bluey grey of a seagull's back, and the sun was coming up fast from behind the Mazy Multitudes. Down below they could hear the roar of the Hysterics, the loudest of all being Norbert the Nutjob shouting, 'MY VEGETABLE! THEY'VE GOT MY VEGETABLE!' The Hysterics were already

14. 他们像鼹鼠一样眨着眼睛，来到了白天，因为他们在歇斯底里的大礼堂时，黑夜已经变成了早晨。天空不再是黑色的，而是海鸥背部的蓝灰色，太阳从迷宫群后面迅速升起。 他们可以听到下面歇斯底里者的吼声，其中声音最大的是疯子诺伯在大喊：“我的蔬菜！”他们拿走了我的蔬菜！”歇斯底里症已经发作了

stampeding towards the door, in pursuit. Hiccup knew they hadn't a hope of getting away on foot, and they didn't have time to find their skis again. In such situations, being tough is not necessarily the way to stay alive, because however tough you are, if there are five hundred Hysterics on skis and only FOUR of you, you are not going to win the battle. What you need in THIS kind of situation is a Clever Idea, and luckily Hiccup was good at Clever Ideas. Hiccup put the food tray down on the roof and sat on it.

奔向门口，追赶。 小嗝嗝知道他们不可能步行离开，他们也没有时间再去找滑雪板了。 在这种情况下，强硬不一定是生存的方式，因为无论你多么强硬，如果滑雪板上有500个歇斯底里的人，而你只有4个，你不可能赢得这场战斗。 在这种情况下，你需要的是一个聪明的主意，幸运的是，小嗝嗝擅长聪明的主意。 小嗝嗝把食物托盘放在屋顶上，坐在上面。

'Come on, Camicazi, you sit behind me,' ordered Hiccup. 'Oh, good-ee,' said Camicazi, her eyes lighting up. The roof of the Great Hall hung slightly over the village walls. From there a steep slope ran all the way down to the harbour. So when the Hysterics poured out of the doors of the Great Hall in a shouting, angry river they had an excellent view of Camicazi and Hiccup tobogganing down the roof and sailing over the walls of the village on board one of their silver food trays. 'AAAAIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!' screamed Hiccup and Camicazi as they soared through the air. By some miracle they landed the right way up on the slope below. And then the lightning descent began. Take it from me, there is nothing on earth that moves faster than two children going down a practically vertical slope on a highly polished silver food tray. Hiccup had sledged before, but never on a hill so steep that it was practically a cliff. And in fact the exact descent that they made has now become an annual competition on Hysteria. It is known as 'the Potato- Burglars' Run', and it follows the same route that Hiccup

“过来，卡米卡齐，你坐在我后面，”小嗝嗝命令道。 “哦，再见，”卡米卡齐说，她的眼睛亮了起来。 大礼堂的屋顶略悬在村子的墙上。 从那里有一个陡坡一直延伸到港口。 所以，当歇斯底里的人像一条怒吼的河流一样从礼堂的大门里涌出来的时候，他们可以清楚地看到卡米卡齐和小嗝嗝从屋顶上滑下来，坐着他们的一个银盘子越过村子的城墙。 “AAAAIEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!小嗝嗝和卡米卡齐尖叫着，他们在空中翱翔。 由于某种奇迹，他们正好降落在下面的斜坡上。 然后闪电般的降落开始了。 听我说，世界上没有什么比两个孩子踩着一个锃亮的银色餐盘从几乎垂直的斜坡上滑下来更快的了。 小嗝嗝以前坐过雪橇，但从来没有在如此陡峭的山上滑过，几乎是悬崖。 事实上，他们所做的确切下降现在已经成为歇斯底里的年度比赛。 这条路被称为“土豆窃贼之路”，它和小嗝嗝走的是同一条路

and Camicazi took, starting, as they did, on top of the roof of the Great Hall, and ending, less than two minutes later, in Hysteria Harbour. 'The Potato-Burglars' Run' is the most dangerous toboggan run in the Inner Isles, and for those brave enough to try it, accidents are common. Hiccup and Camicazi were lucky not to break their necks. They screamed down that hillside, wildly out of control, yelling at the tops of their voices. One Eye and Toothless couldn't possibly keep up with them, for it was like trying to catch a speeding arrow. When they hit the ice of the harbour two bottom- bruising, hair-raising, eye-popping minutes later, they were going so fast that they wildly overshot the sleigh they had left there, and The Hopeful Puffin patiently waiting for their return. They scrambled off the food tray and raced towards the sleigh. One Eye came soaring down, and they hurriedly hitched him up and set him going at a brisk trot towards the Harbour Exit. 'Oh my goodness,' panted Camicazi, looking back up at the Hysterical Village, where the Great Hall was now a gigantic bonfire. 'Those Hysterics are going to be SO CROSS.'

卡米卡齐和他们一样，从大礼堂的屋顶上出发，不到两分钟就到了海斯特尼亚港。 “土豆窃贼赛跑”是内岛最危险的雪橇赛跑，对于那些有勇气尝试的人来说，事故很常见。 Hiccup和Camicazi很幸运没有摔断脖子。 他们尖叫着冲下山坡，完全失去了控制，扯着嗓子大喊大叫。 独眼和无牙不可能跟上他们，因为这就像试图抓住一支飞驰的箭一样。 两分钟后，当他们撞到海港的冰面上时，他们的速度如此之快，以至于远远超过了他们留在那里的雪橇，而“希望的海雀”耐心地等待着他们回来。 他们从食物托盘上爬下来，向雪橇跑去。 “独眼”飞了下来，他们赶紧把它套起来，让它快步向港口出口跑去。 “哦，我的天哪。”卡米卡齐喘着气说，回头看了看歇斯底里村，那里的大礼堂现在变成了一堆巨大的篝火。 “那些歇斯底里的人会很生气的。”

'My congratulations,' growled One Eye to Hiccup, as he pulled them rapidly forwards. 'You are the first Human I have ever met who uses his brain and not just his muscles.' 'If he really use his b-b-brain,' complained Toothless, catching up and collapsing, exhausted, on the seat of the sleigh, 'we not here in the first p-p-place.' In that very same instant, over the brow of the hill came the Hysterics. They had put their helmets on and they were on skis, howling the Hysterical Howl like a pack of speeding wolves. They were already shooting arrows in their direction, trying to hit the sleigh. But they were too late. Once their skis hit the ice they travelled for a while, and then came to a halt. Hiccup and Camicazi were nearly at the Harbour Exit by now, and the arrows shot by the Hysterics fell harmlessly on the ice. Looking over her shoulder at the furious Hysterics, Camicazi let out a whoop of joy as One Eye galloped out of Hysteria Harbour. 'We made it!' she yelled. 'We haven't made it yet,' said Hiccup nervously. That sharp noise of cracking, like axes on a tree trunk, was even louder now that they were on the ice. And Hiccup was looking out for the Doomfang.

“祝贺你。”一只眼对小嗝嗝吼道，一边把他们快速拉向前。 “你是我见过的第一个不仅使用肌肉还使用大脑的人。“如果他真的用了他的——他的脑子，”无牙抱怨道，赶上来，精疲力竭地瘫倒在雪橇的座位上，“我们压根儿就不在这儿——在——在这儿。”就在同一时刻，歇斯底里的人从山顶上跑了过来。 他们戴上头盔，骑在滑雪板上，像一群飞驰的狼一样发出歇斯底里的嚎叫。 他们已经朝他们的方向射箭，试图击中雪橇。 但是他们太晚了。一旦他们的滑雪板碰到冰面，他们就走了一会儿，然后停了下来。 这时，小嗝嗝和卡米卡齐已经快到港口出口了，歇斯底里队射出的箭落在冰面上，没有造成伤害。 卡米卡齐回头看了看狂怒的歇斯底里者，一只眼从歇斯底里港疾驰而出，卡米卡齐发出了一声欢呼。 “我们成功了！”她喊道。“我们还没到呢，”小嗝嗝紧张地说。 那尖锐的噼啪声，就像斧头砍在树干上的声音，在冰面上变得更响了。 小嗝嗝在找末日毒牙。

'Here's the Vegetable,' said Camicazi, handing Hiccup the Frozen Potato with the arrow stuck in it. 'And this other thing I found in the casket– I'm sorry, I shouldn't have taken it as well, but once you start burgling, it's difficult to stop.' Hiccup took the Potato and the Other Thing, and stuffed them in his breast pocket, not really concentrating, for the great shadow of the Doomfang had appeared under the boat, and was following them under the ice. 'If we can just get to the Open Sea before the ice cracks we'll be all right,' muttered Hiccup to himself. 'The Doomfang won't leave the Wrath of Thor. The Doomfang hasn't left the Wrath of Thor in fifteen years…' The walls of the cliffs raced past them on either side. The Doomfang, dark and terrible, stretching out for ever, swam slowly beneath them. And they reached the edge of the Open Sea without the ice cracking. 'You see!' grinned Camicazi. 'We did it!'

“这是蔬菜。”卡米卡齐说着，把插着箭的冷冻土豆递给了小嗝嗝。 “还有我在棺材里发现的另一件东西——对不起，我不应该把它也拿走，但是一旦你开始行窃，就很难制止了。”嗝嗝拿起土豆和另一个东西，塞进胸前的口袋里，并没有真正集中注意力，因为末日毒牙的巨大影子已经出现在船下面，并且在冰下面跟着他们。 “只要我们能在冰裂开之前赶到公海，就没事了。”小嗝嗝自言自语道。 “末日之牙不会离开雷神之怒。 末日毒牙已经有十五年没有离开雷神之怒了……”悬崖两边的墙壁从他们身边掠过。 黑暗而可怕的末日毒牙永远地伸展着，在他们下面慢慢地游动着。 他们到达了远海的边缘，没有冰裂开。 “你看!卡米卡齐咧嘴笑着说。 “我们成功了！”