11 The Escape from the American Dream

11. THE ESCAPE FROM THE AMERICAN DREAM 2 The full moon shone down on the great boat steaming through the icebergs. The crew of the American Dream 2 feasted well that night, on a stew which, unbeknownst to them, was heavily laced with dragon-nip. Hiccup had crept in to the Cooking Tent, and poured it into the bubbling cauldron of dinner. For a while the Hysterical crew ignored their spooky surroundings, and sang out loud songs to the moon above, banging their dinner plates on the deck, and Norbert the Nutjob fiddled madly on his Viking violin, and the Hysterics did wild jigs, and the Polar- serpents sat on their icebergs, quiet statues, only their eyes following the mayhem. And then, one by one, the dragon-nip's heavy fumes overcame the Hysterics. Sleep overtook them so quickly that they dropped as they stood, in the middle of whatever they happened to be doing at the time, and fell to the deck in grotesque attitudes of slumber. Norbert lay snoring, the violin still tucked under his chin. Goggle-eyes the Gory was clasped fondly to the breast of Verociously Violent, who was under the

11. 逃出美国梦2满月照耀着在冰山上航行的大船。 那天晚上，《美国梦2》的船员们吃了一顿丰盛的大餐，他们不知道的是，炖菜里掺了大量的龙舌兰。 嗝嗝悄悄溜进了烹饪帐篷，把它倒进了冒泡的晚餐锅里。 有好一会儿，“歇斯底里”号的船员们不去理会周围令人毛骨悚然的环境，对着天上的月亮大声唱歌，把餐盘敲在甲板上，疯子诺伯特疯狂地拉着他的维京小提琴，“歇斯底里”号的船员们疯狂地跳着快步舞，极地蛇坐在冰山上，像安静的雕像，只有他们的眼睛盯着混乱的场面。 然后，一个接一个，龙薄荷的浓重烟雾战胜了歇斯底里。 睡意很快就袭上了他们的身，他们站在那里，不管正在做什么，都倒在甲板上，摆出一副奇怪的睡姿。 诺伯躺在那里打呼噜，小提琴还夹在下巴下面。 护目镜，血淋淋的被紧紧地搂在“凶暴”的胸前

sleepy delusion that he was three years old again, and this was his mother. Red Ronald was pedalling the wheels of the Keep-the-Boat-from-Sinking-and-Scare-Away-the-Big-Sea-Creatures Machine slower and slower until he stopped entirely and drooped snoring over the handlebars. And the Ship's Cook collapsed face down in his snail and jellyfish pie. (He would still be picking bits of snail shell and egg out of his nostrils three days later.) Hiccup, Camicazi and Fishlegs waited till everybody on the deck was completely still–and then they waited five minutes more, just to make sure. Then slowly, quietly, they slipped down the rigging of the mast. Hiccup was carrying the sleeping Toothless in his breast pocket, and Camicazi had the slumbering Stormfly draped around her shoulders like a scarf. They tip-toed across the deck of the American Dream 2, carefully, carefully picking their way through the sleeping, snoring Warriors lying strewn on the boards, the sweet yellow-brown smoke from the cauldron billowing across the ship and making their eyes water. Cautiously, gently, Hiccup took the ticking- thing from around Norbert's wrist, and tied it back again to his own.

睡眼惺忪地妄想自己又回到了三岁，而这就是他的母亲。 红色罗纳德踩着“防止船只沉没并吓跑海洋生物”机器的轮子，越踩越慢，最后他完全停了下来，伏在车把上打着呼噜。 船上的厨子脸朝下倒在他的蜗牛水母馅饼里。 （三天后，他还在从鼻孔里捡蜗牛壳和鸡蛋。）小嗝嗝、卡米卡兹和鱼腿一直等到甲板上的每个人都完全安静下来，然后他们又等了五分钟，只是为了确定一下。 然后，他们慢慢地、悄悄地把桅杆上的索具滑落下来。 小嗝嗝把睡着的无牙放在胸前的口袋里，卡米卡齐把睡着的暴风蝇像围巾一样披在肩上。 他们踮着脚尖走过“美国梦2号”的甲板，小心翼翼地穿过躺在甲板上睡着的、打着鼾的勇士们，从汽锅里冒出的甜美的黄褐色烟雾在船上翻腾，使他们的眼睛湿润。 小嗝嗝小心翼翼地、轻轻地从诺伯手腕上取下滴答作响的东西，重新绑在自己的手腕上。

Quietly, softly, Camicazi removed the large bunch of keys from Norbert's waistband with her quick, light little fingers, and she opened the lock of the Hatch that led down to the hold where they were holding the Wanderers. It took all three of them to lift up the Hatch, which they did with a whining C-CC-CREAK! And then they threw down a rope and the keys to the Wanderers below, Hiccup whispering as loud as he dared to tell them to unlock their chains and climb up, one by one. The first two out were Bearcub and his Grandmother. Bearcub was in a state of high excitement, and danced round his Grandmother squeaking, 'I TOLD you! I TOLD you he would rescue us! You see! You see! Not ALL Vikings are wicked, and we're not DOOMED after all!' Bearcub's Grandmother was torn between her delight at being rescued, and her annoyance that her prophecy of DOOM wasn't being fulfilled. 'Mff,' she sniffed. 'We're not rescued YET. If just one of those Vikings wakes up, we're all as dead as dinosaurs… DOOMED, the lot of us… a one-way ticket to the happy hunting grounds…' 'Can you work out how to get back to your home

卡米卡齐轻轻地、轻轻地用她敏捷、轻盈的小手指从诺伯的腰带上取下一大串钥匙，打开了舱门的锁，那扇门通向他们关押流浪者的船舱。 三个人合力把舱门掀起来，他们发出一声呜咽的吱——吱——吱！然后，他们扔下一根绳子和下面流浪者的钥匙，嗝嗝低声耳语，大声地告诉他们解开锁链，一个接一个地爬上去。 最先出来的两个是熊宝宝和他的奶奶。 熊仔非常兴奋，围着奶奶跳着舞，尖声叫着：“我告诉过你！我告诉过你他会救我们的！你看!你看!不是所有的维京人都是邪恶的，我们也不是注定要灭亡的！”熊宝宝的祖母一边为自己获救而高兴，一边又为自己的末日预言没有实现而烦恼。 “哼，”她哼了一声。“我们还没有获救。 “只要有一个维京人醒了，我们就都跟恐龙一样没命了……我们所有人都完蛋了……一张通往快乐狩猎场的单程票……

from here?' asked Hiccup, consulting the ticking-thing anxiously. 'And take us back to Berk when you've got there?' The scary white wilderness all around them seemed an unlikely sort of home to Hiccup, but there was a happy glint in Bearcub's Grandmother's wild eyes, although she tried to hide it. She breathed in the air, as cold as needles, and peered through the mists as if looking at something very familiar. She nodded. 'A Wanderer is never lost,' she said. 'We don't need that silly little bauble of yours to take us home. I could have showed that ridiculous Viking with the axe the way to America, if he'd had the intelligence to ask me…' Hiccup tried to organise launching the landing-boats in a QUIET sort of way, which was impossible, and Hiccup hopped from foot to foot in anxiety as the Hysterical Warriors mumbled in their sleep with every crash of the oars. They were heavily armed, with swords, and wicked axes, and every sort of dagger, and Bearcub's Grandmother did have a point: Hiccup had no doubt that if awoken, they would deal out death with a vengeance. But it seemed that luck was with the escapers. The seven landing-boats plopped into the water without any of the Hysterics opening their eyes.

从这里吗?小嗝嗝问，焦急地看了看滴答作响的东西。 “你到博克后带我们回那儿去？”他们周围可怕的白色荒野似乎不像是小嗝嗝的家，但熊宝宝的祖母狂野的眼睛里却闪烁着快乐的光芒，尽管她试图隐藏它。 她吸了一口冰冷如针的空气，透过雾霭向外张望，仿佛在看什么熟悉的东西。 她点了点头。“流浪者是不会迷路的，”她说。 “我们不需要你那愚蠢的小东西带我们回家。 如果那个拿着斧头的可笑的维京人有头脑的话，我可以把他带到美洲去的路，如果他有头脑的话……”嗝嗝试图悄悄地组织下水，但这是不可能的，当歇斯底里的勇士们在每一次划桨声中都在睡梦中喃喃自语时，嗝嗝焦急地跳来跳去。 他们全副武装，有剑，有邪恶的斧头，还有各种各样的匕首，熊宝宝的祖母说得有道理：小嗝嗝毫不怀疑，一旦被唤醒，他们会报仇雪恨地杀死他们。 但似乎幸运的是逃脱者。 七艘登陆艇扑通一声落入水中，歇斯底里的人都没有睁开眼睛。

The Wanderers filled the boats, and the first boat began to row through the mists, Bearcub's Grandmother standing up straight and tall at the front, pointing the way with one outstretched arm. The last landing-boat had filled up, apart from Hiccup, Fishlegs and Camicazi. Fishlegs was watching Hiccup, as Hiccup got ready to climb down over the rim of the American Dream 2 and into the last landing-boat. There were flat icebergs very close to the left and right of them. Camicazi had taken over from the snoring Red Ronald, and was steering the American Dream 2, making sure the ship was moving forward in a straight line so that it didn't bump into the icebergs. She had tied the slumbering Stormfly to her chest, and the little dragon suddenly stirred violently in her sleep, jogging Camicazi's arm on the steering wheel… the American Dream 2 swerved suddenly and violently to the left… …just as Hiccup was dangling over the edge on a rope, preparing to let himself drop into the little boat filled with Wanderers below. 'Wooooahhhhh!' gasped Hiccup, as the rope swung him forward, leaving the landing-boat behind. 'Watch where you're going, Camicazi!'

游民们坐满了小船，第一艘船开始在雾中划动，熊宝宝的祖母笔直挺拔地站在船头，伸出一只胳膊为我们指路。 除了小嗝嗝、鱼腿和卡米卡齐，最后一艘登陆艇已经坐满了人。 鱼腿注视着小嗝嗝，小嗝嗝正准备爬下“美国梦2”的边缘，登上最后一艘登陆艇。 在它们的左右两边都有扁平的冰山。 卡米卡齐接替了鼾声如雷的“红色罗纳德”号，驾驶着“美国梦2号”，确保飞船沿直线前进，以免撞到冰山。 她把熟睡的风暴飞人绑在胸前，小龙突然在她的睡梦中剧烈地扭动，把卡米卡齐的手臂放在方向盘上……“美国梦2号”突然猛烈地向左转向... ...，这时小嗝嗝正吊在绳子边上，准备跳进下面那艘载满流浪汉的小船里。 “Wooooahhhhh !小嗝嗝喘着气说，绳子把他甩在了身后，把登陆艇甩在了后面。 “当心点，卡米卡齐！”

But Stormfly seemed to be having some sort of nightmare, and was squirming around wildly, so that Camicazi was struggling to see over her wriggling tail as it flapped in Camicazi's face. In those vital seconds, the American Dream 2 careered erratically forward, glancing off an iceberg to the left, before Stormfly settled down and Camicazi got the boat under control again. In the meantime, when the boat hit the iceberg, Hiccup had lost his grip on the rope he was dangling from, and plunged downward…

但暴风蝇似乎做了什么噩梦，它疯狂地扭动着身体，卡米卡齐挣扎着从它扭动的尾巴上看过去，尾巴拍打着卡米卡齐的脸。 在那至关重要的几秒钟里，“美国梦2号”不稳定地向前冲去，撞到了左边的冰山，然后“暴风号”停了下来，卡米卡齐再次控制住了船。 与此同时，当船撞上冰山时，小嗝嗝已经抓不住吊着他的绳子，往下掉了下去……