8 The Wrath of Thor

8. THE WRATH OF THOR One Eye pulled the sleigh across the ice at a crazy speed. Once or twice Hiccup tugged on the reins to try and get him to slow down, but the big Driver ignored him, and so in the end, Hiccup gave up trying. 'The quicker we get to Hysteria, the better, anyway,' he reminded himself. The burningly cold wind slammed into his face, tearing at his eyelids as they careered across the ice. The Hopeful Puffin bounced crazily behind them like an ugly duckling desperately trying to keep up with its demented mother. Luckily, although she was not an attractive-looking boat, she was sturdy and used to the odd knock or two. Hiccup had brought along snacks for everybody that were supposed to last the whole journey, but Toothless finished all of them in the first three minutes, littering the sleigh with crumbs, chicken bones and winkle shells. 'Toothless c-c-cold…' he wailed. 'Toothless h-h-hungry… Toothless BORED. Ow ow ow ow…

8. 一只眼以疯狂的速度拉着雪橇穿过冰面。 有一两次，嗝嗝拉着缰绳，想让他慢下来，但大车夫不理他，所以最后，嗝嗝放弃了尝试。 “不管怎样，我们越快赶到歇斯底里越好。”他提醒自己。 刺骨的寒风猛击着他的脸，撕裂着他的眼睑，他们在冰面上疾驰。 那只满怀希望的海雀疯狂地在他们身后跳来跳去，就像一只丑小鸭拼命地想跟上它那发疯的妈妈。 幸运的是，虽然这艘船看起来并不漂亮，但它很结实，习惯了偶尔的磕碰。 小嗝嗝给每个人都带来了零食，这些零食应该可以持续整个旅程，但没过三分钟，无牙就把所有的零食都吃光了，雪橇上到处都是面包屑、鸡骨头和鱼壳。 “没牙——冷——冷……” “没牙——饿——饿……没牙无聊。” 嗷嗷嗷……

Camicazi s-s-sitting on my ta-a-ail… Are we nearly there yet?' 'We only left five minutes ago!' exclaimed Hiccup. 'Toothless play I-Spy,' said Toothless firmly. At first Camicazi was horribly cheerful, chatting constantly, and singing loudly, her bright blue eyes prickling with excitement. But as the long hours wore on, and as they played their fifty-second game of I-Spy with Hiccup translating for Toothless, and as the sky turned pink and grey with the coming of the evening, and as they passed the Mazy Multitudes to their left and began to hear the first moans of the Doomfang under the ice, even Camicazi fell silent. Hiccup made One Eye wait for the evening to grow darker before they turned the corner into the Wrath of Thor, so the Hysteric lookouts wouldn't spot them coming. For a tense, stomach-churning half-hour they waited, until Hiccup judged it was safe, and gave a pull on One Eye's reins to get him going again. The gigantic sea cliffs of Villainy and Hysteria loomed above them scarily in the darkness. One Eye bounded into the Wrath of Thor, and the cliffs leapt up on either side of the little sleigh as it raced along, like

Camicazi坐在我的屁股上…我们快到了吗？“我们五分钟前才离开！”小嗝嗝叫道。 “无牙玩I-Spy。”无牙坚定地说。 起初，卡米卡齐非常高兴，不停地聊天，大声唱歌，她明亮的蓝眼睛兴奋得刺痛。 但随着时间的流逝，当他们玩第五十二次“我是间谍”游戏时，小嗝嗝给“无牙”做翻译，随着夜幕的降临，天空变成了粉红色和灰色，当他们经过左边的迷宫群，开始听到冰下末日之牙的第一次呻吟时，就连卡米卡齐也沉默了。 小嗝嗝让独眼等到天黑后，他们才拐进雷神之怒的角落，这样歇斯底里的守望者就不会发现他们的到来。 他们紧张地、反胃地等了半个小时，直到小嗝嗝认为安全了，才拉了拉独眼的缰绳，让它重新开始。 邪恶和歇斯底里的巨大海崖在黑暗中可怕地隐约出现在他们上方。 一只眼跳进了雷神之怒，小雪橇疾驰时，两边的悬崖陡然隆起，就像

dizzyingly high prison walls. The eyes of dragons shine in the dark, and so One Eye's great eye acted as a searchlight, showing them the way. The ice in the narrow gorge was so clear that it was almost transparent, and in the beam of One Eye's eye, you could see right through it, as if it were a two- metre-thick pane of frosted glass, down into the sea below. How interesting, thought Hiccup as he looked over the edge of the sleigh, I can even make out a shoal of mackerel down there… The mass of tiny fish went on for ever, swimming slowly in their millions way down below them, until suddenly they scarpered, shooting away like tiny sparks in an explosion, as a great dark shape, infinitely large, suddenly appeared under the ice. It was the gargantuan shadow of a dragon the size of an underwater mountain, and it easily kept up with the speedy little sleigh, its long tail lazily

令人眼花缭乱的高墙。 龙的眼睛在黑暗中发光，所以独眼的大眼睛就像探照灯一样，为它们指路。 狭窄峡谷里的冰非常清澈，几乎是透明的，在“独眼”眼睛的光线下，你可以透过它看到下面的大海，就好像是一块两米厚的磨砂玻璃。 “多么有趣啊，”小嗝嗝从雪橇的边缘往外看，心想，“我甚至还能看到下面有一群鲭鱼……一大群小鱼没完没了地往前游，数以百万计的小鱼在它们下面慢慢地游来游去，直到它们突然窜开，像爆炸中的小火花一样散开，一个巨大的、无限大的黑影突然出现在冰下。” 这是一条巨龙的巨大影子，有一座水下的山那么大，它很容易就跟上了那辆飞快的小雪橇，它的长尾巴懒洋洋地拖着

powering it along, its wings nearly brushing the edges of the Wrath of Thor as it beat them slowly to swim underneath. 'Issa D-d-doomfang!' whispered Toothless into Hiccup's ear. 'Let's go h-h-home…' Hiccup gazed downwards in fascinated horror as the great dragon turned its head to one side and Hiccup found himself staring into an enormous, bloodshot, green dragon eye, as long as the sleigh itself. It was as if all the green in the world, of peas, of grass, of spinach, of leaves, of beans and frogs, had been concentrated in that one eye and given it the intensity of a pure green acid. It was like looking straight into the sun at midday, through a great green microscope, and Hiccup was so dazzled he nearly fell off the sleigh, until he was brought back to his senses by a terribleTHUD! and the ice below them jumped up like

它的翅膀几乎擦过雷神之怒的边缘，慢慢地拍打着它们游到下面。 “伊萨D-d-doomfang !无牙对着嗝嗝的耳朵小声说。 “我们走吧——回家吧……”当巨龙把头扭向一边时，嗝嗝惊恐地向下凝视着，他发现自己正盯着一只巨大的、充血的绿色龙眼，有雪橇那么长。 仿佛世界上所有的绿色，豌豆、青草、菠菜、树叶、豆类和青蛙的绿色，都集中在这只眼睛里，使它具有一种纯绿酸的强度。 这就像在正午的时候，通过一个巨大的绿色显微镜直视太阳，小嗝嗝被弄得眼花缭乱，差点从雪橇上摔下来，直到一声可怕的砰的一声，他才恢复了知觉！下面的冰跳起来就像

an earthquake. The sleigh jumped too, and One Eye soared briefly into the air with a complaining yowl. THUD! went the ice again as the Doomfang butted his head against the thick transparent wall. With terrified relief, Hiccup realised the ice was so deep that it was holding strong, although it was now shot through with tiny little white cracks. The sleigh raced towards the entrance to Hysteria Harbour like a mouse streaking towards a mousehole. The dragon followed, thudding the ice underneath as they went, with terrible blows from its battering-ram head. When One Eye turned into the harbour, he was going so fast the momentum from the boat behind almost turned them round in a great screeching circle. The sleigh balanced wildly on one runner, before slamming back down and carrying on. Hiccup looked over his shoulder. The Doomfang was too large to fit through the narrow harbour entrance. It pushed its great head through and Hiccup could see, though not hear, its huge mouth opening in a roar of rage, its paw with the terrible talons tearing at the water. It blew out a great gush of underwater blue flame that shot out underneath the speeding sleigh and streaked forward in a straight line right up to the shoreline, almost as if it were a bright blue road telling them where to go.

一场地震。雪橇也跳了起来，一只眼发出一声抱怨的嚎叫，短暂地飞向空中。 砰的一声!当末日獠牙的头撞在厚厚的透明墙上时，冰又融化了。 小嗝嗝如释重负地意识到，冰是如此之深，以至于坚不可摧，尽管现在它已经被打穿了细小的白色裂缝。 雪橇冲向海斯特尼亚港的入口，就像一只老鼠冲向老鼠洞一样。 恶龙跟在后面，用它的攻城槌头狠狠地敲打着下面的冰。 “独眼”驶进港口时，速度非常快，后面那艘船的冲力几乎把他们转了个大圈。 雪橇在一个人身上疯狂地保持平衡，然后猛地倒下来，继续前进。 小嗝嗝扭头看了看。 厄运之牙太大了，无法通过狭窄的港口入口。 它把它的大脑袋伸了进来，嗝嗝虽然听不见，但却能看见它的大嘴发出愤怒的咆哮，它的爪子用可怕的爪子撕裂着水。 它喷出了一股巨大的水下蓝色火焰，从超速行驶的雪橇下面喷出，笔直地向前冲到海岸线上，几乎就像一条明亮的蓝色道路，告诉他们该往哪里走。