5 WHO IS THE MAN ON THE WHITE DRAGON

5. WHO IS THE MAN ON THE WHITE DRAGON? Stoick the Vast was Hiccup's father, and the Chief of the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. He was a man built on generous lines, with a belly like a battleship, and a beard like an electrocuted Afghan hound. He had been having a peaceful after-lunch nap in the surprising warmth of the afternoon, when he was rudely awoken by a couple of his Warriors chattering on about a fire up on the Highest Point... and how the Pirate Training Program was up there herding reindeer. Stoick immediately feared the worst. Stoick wasn't normally of a fearful nature, but his fat-her-inlaw, Old Wrinkly, who was a soothsayer, had been warning Stoick for WEEKS that the omens were saying that Hiccup was in danger. Stoick had laughed this off, for Stoick was not a great thinker or worrier, even though for a small,

5. 白龙上的人是谁？ 巨人斯托伊克是小嗝嗝的父亲，也是毛流氓部落的首领。 他体格健壮，肚子像战舰，胡子像触电的阿富汗猎犬。 那天下午出奇的温暖，他正在午休后安静地睡个午觉，突然被他的几个勇士粗暴地吵醒了，他们在叽叽喳喳地谈论着最高点上的大火…… 以及海盗训练计划是如何放牧驯鹿的。 斯托伊克立即担心最坏的情况。 斯托伊克平时并不是一个胆小怕事的人，但他的岳父岳母老皱纹是个预言家，几个星期来一直在警告斯托伊克，种种征兆表明小嗝嗝有危险。 斯托伊克对此一笑置之，因为斯托伊克既不是一个伟大的思想家，也不是一个忧心忡忡的人，

skinny boy who didn't amount to much, Hiccup DID seem to get into an extraordinary number of dangerous situations.* "CALL OUT THE FIRE BRIGADE!" bellowed Stoick, jumping out of bed and leaping for the door, dressed only in a rather fetching pair of hairy underpants that his wife Valhallarama had brought back for him from one of her Quests abroad. When you live side by side with dragons you have to have an extremely efficient Fire Brigade System. Even though most dragons TRY not to fire-breathe unnecessarily, the hunting and riding dragons were always accidentally setting fire to the furniture or the thatch, and on these occasions the Fire Brigade could be on the scene in two minutes flat. The Fire Brigade consisted of a whole fleet of Water Dragons, so called because their stomachs can distend to carry extraordinary amounts of water, ridden by Fire Warriors specifically trained in fighting fires. It took a little longer than two minutes on this occasion, for the Highest Point was some flying distance away from Hooligan Village, but within a relatively short space of time, the entire Brigade was there, the dragons swooping down into the seas below to scoop off huge amounts of water from the sea, and then shooting it out onto the blaze. Their efforts were pretty hopeless, of course,

小嗝嗝是个瘦骨嶙峋的男孩，没什么了不起，但他似乎确实陷入了很多危险的境地。“呼叫消防队！”斯托伊克吼道，从床上跳起来，向门口扑去，身上只穿着一条相当迷人的毛茸茸的内裤，那是他妻子瓦尔哈拉拉马从国外给他带回来的。 当你和龙住在一起时，你必须有一个非常高效的消防队系统。 尽管大多数龙都尽量避免不必要的喷火，但狩猎和骑马的龙总是不小心把家具或茅草点着，在这种情况下，消防队可以在两分钟内赶到现场。 消防队由整个水龙舰队组成，因为它们的胃可以膨胀以携带大量的水，由经过专门训练的消防战士驾驶。 这次花了两分钟多一点的时间，因为最高点离胡里甘村有一段飞行距离，但在相对较短的时间内，整个旅都在那里，龙俯冲到下面的海里，从海里舀出大量的水，然后把它射到火焰上。 当然，他们的努力是毫无希望的，

because this wasn't a tiny little matter of a hunting dragon setting fire to a bedspread, but an entire burning mountainside, and by the time Stoick arrived, half naked on the back of his riding dragon, the fire was flaming as strongly as ever. Gloomily watching the blaze was a bedraggled

因为这不是一条猎龙点燃床罩的小事，而是整个山腰都在燃烧，当斯托伊克半裸着骑在他的龙背上到达时，火焰像往常一样强烈地燃烧着。 一个浑身湿透的人忧郁地看着大火

line of pupils from the Pirate Training Program, blackened and unrecognizable through the smoke. "Hiccup?" stammered Stoick, dismounting from his riding dragon, and wiping the smeariness from the face of the nearest boy in the pathetic hope that the soot-smothered young plug-ugly might be his son. "WHERE IS HICCUP? " Sadly, Wartihog shook his head and pointed a grubby arm at the mighty blaze in front of them. "NO!" shouted Stoick, tearing his beard, staring at the blazing woods. Out of the fire ran the Windwalker as fast as he could, and he came to a stop among the waiting Vikings. Hasty hands scrabbled at the cloak, unwrapping it with such speed that Hiccup fell out on to the heather. He found himself looking straight up into the anxious face of his father, Stoick the Vast, and the heads of several other Warriors. Behind those heads was the bright blue sky, and farther back even than that was the flaming Highest Point, a great funeral pyre for Goliath and the reindeer. But not for Hiccup—this time. As Hiccup tumbled onto his back, his helmet fell off and a hot, cross Toothless flew out.

一排来自海盗训练计划的学生，被烟雾熏得面目全非。 “嗝嗝？”斯托伊克结结巴巴地说，从他的坐骑上下来，擦去最近的一个男孩脸上的污迹，可怜巴巴地希望那个被烟熏得喘不过气来的丑八怪可能是他的儿子。 “小嗝嗝在哪儿？”战猪悲伤地摇了摇头，用肮脏的手臂指着他们面前熊熊的火焰。 “不！”斯托伊克喊道，一边扯着胡子，一边盯着熊熊燃烧的树林。 风行者以最快的速度跑出火堆，在等待的维京人中间停了下来。 两只匆忙的手在斗篷上乱抓，以如此之快的速度打开斗篷，小嗝嗝摔到了石楠丛上。 他发现自己抬头看到了父亲巨人斯托伊克焦虑的脸，以及其他几个勇士的头。 脑袋后面是湛蓝的天空，再往后是燃烧着的“最高点”，那是为歌利亚和驯鹿准备的巨大火葬堆。 但这次不是为了嗝嗝。 当嗝嗝仰面摔倒时，他的头盔掉了下来，一个滚烫的无牙十字架飞了出来。

"Mean, mean Master!" scolded Toothless. "Hiccup VERY LUCKY nice, kind Toothless not do a pee-pee on his head!" But then the little dragon forgot his anger immediately when he caught sight of the glorious burning bonfire. "OOOOOOhhhh, FIRE!" squealed Toothless in excitement, and he flapped off hurriedly to play in the flames. "He's alive!" bellowed Stoick the Vast in astonished delight. "How are you alive?" was Stoick's next, baffled question. Hiccup pointed to something standing quietly some way beyond Stoick's shoulder. The Man on the White Dragon, with Gobber sitting behind him. "He saved me," said Hiccup. Gobber clambered down from the White Dragon. He was totally black from eyebrows to toenails, apart from the small pink top of his bald helmetless head, which shone in the sunlight like a halo. "I can explain, Chief," stammered Gobber. "It was a perfectly harmless Herding-Reindeer-on-Dragonback lesson, nothing dangerous about it at all, and then we were attacked by these things... Goliath didn't make it."

“卑鄙，卑鄙的主人！” “嗝嗝非常幸运，善良善良的无牙没有在他头上撒尿！”但当小龙看到熊熊燃烧的篝火时，他立刻忘记了自己的愤怒。 “着火了！”无牙兴奋地尖叫着，急忙拍着翅膀飞到火焰中去玩了。 “他还活着！”巨人斯托伊克又惊又喜地喊道。 “你怎么还活着？”斯托伊克的下一个困惑的问题是。 小嗝嗝指着斯托伊克肩膀后面安静地站着的东西。 白龙号上的人，戈柏坐在他后面。 “他救了我，”小嗝嗝说。 戈柏从白龙号上爬下来。 他从眉毛到脚趾甲都是黑的，除了没有戴头盔的粉红色的小脑袋，在阳光下像一个光环一样闪闪发光。 “我可以解释，头儿。”戈伯结结巴巴地说。 “这是一堂完全无害的驯鹿骑龙背的课，一点也不危险，然后我们就被这些东西袭击了…… 歌利亚没有成功。”

"I am sorry, Gobber," said Stoick the Vast solemnly. Goliath had been Gobber's faithful riding dragon through many a terrible battle. "We shall take revenge on whatever did this, I assure you..." "He saved us," said Gobber, pointing at the Man. "Who is that?" asked Stoick. "Who is that Man?" "He can't be a man," pointed out Gobber. "Men don't walk through fire... He must be a god." "I'm not a god," said the Man on the White Dragon. His voice was rather muffled by a black suit that covered him from head to toe, even his eyes and mouth, and Hiccup was wondering how he could see through it. "I'm just a Hero—I mean an ordinary bloke, who happened to be passing," continued the Man. "In fact I'm in a bit of a hurry. I've got something important to do now, so I must be off... Lovely to meet you and everything... you seem like nice little people, in your way." "You're a Lava-Lout!" roared Stoick, staring at the Man. All the watching Hooligans gasped in horror, and drew their swords immediately. Lava-Louts were one of the Hooligan Tribe's deadliest enemies.

“对不起，戈伯。”巨人斯托伊克严肃地说。 歌利亚在许多可怕的战斗中都是戈伯忠实的坐骑。 “不管是谁干的，我们一定会报复的，我向你保证……” “他救了我们。”戈伯指着那个人说。 “那是谁？”斯托伊克问。 “那个人是谁？”“他不可能是个男人。”戈伯指出。 “男人不会穿过火…… 他一定是个神。”“我不是神，”白龙上的人说。 他从头到脚，连眼睛和嘴巴都被一件黑色的衣服遮住了，声音被遮住了，小嗝嗝不知道他怎么能透过衣服看东西。 “我只是一个英雄——我是说一个普通人，只是碰巧路过。”男人继续说。 “事实上，我有点赶时间。 我现在有重要的事情要做，所以我得走了。 很高兴见到你和一切…… 从你们的角度看，你们都是些善良的小人物。” “你是熔岩喷子！”斯托伊克瞪着那人吼道。 所有围观的流氓都吓得倒抽了一口冷气，立刻拔剑而出。 熔岩人是流氓部落最致命的敌人之一。