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12. R-R-R-R-UUUUNNNNNN!!!!!! …and landed, rather painfully, on his bottom, RIGHT in the middle of a circle of Polar-serpents. Slowly the Polar-serpents' heads turned one hundred and eighty degrees, like the heads of owls, to look at Hiccup. 'OK…' stammered Hiccup. 'Easy now… nice Polar-serpents… sweet Polar-serpents… what lovely sharp horns you have…' 'All the better,' whined the nearest Polar-serpent, 'for spearing you with.' 'R-R-R-R-R-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-UNNNNNN!!!!!!!' shouted Camicazi from the deck of the American Dream 2. Hiccup didn't need to be told. He scrambled to his feet, slipping and sliding on the slippery ice. The Polar-serpent has a very strange way of manouvering across the ice floes, and if Hiccup hadn't been right in the middle of fleeing for his life, he might

12. R-R-R-R-UUUUNNNNNN ! !……很痛苦地摔在地上，正好落在一圈极地蛇的中间。 慢慢地，极地蛇的头像猫头鹰的头一样转了180度，看着嗝嗝。 “好吧……”嗝嗝结结巴巴地说。“好极了，”离你最近的一条极地蛇呜咽着说，“用矛刺你，真是太好了。”“R-R-R-R-R-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-UNNNNNN ! !卡米卡齐在“美国梦2号”甲板上喊道。 小嗝嗝不需要别人告诉。 他爬了起来，在光滑的冰面上打滑。 极地巨蛇在浮冰上移动的方式非常奇怪，如果小嗝嗝不是在逃命，他可能会

have admired it. Half the pack of Polar-serpents spread out their wings like the sails of ships, braced their talons, and then shot forward on their smooth bellies, rocketing after Hiccup, their noses pointed straight toward him like darts for a dartboard. The remaining Polar-serpents slid into the water, swift and silent as alligators, and joined the chase from under the ice. 'Don't fall over, don't fall over, don't fall over!' begged Hiccup, clasping Toothless to his chest to stop him falling out of his waistcoat as he ran. He could hear the Polar-serpents whirring closer and closer, their nails screeching on the ice.

我很欣赏它。一半的极地蛇像船帆一样展开翅膀，握紧爪子，然后在光滑的肚子上向前冲去，像火箭一样追着小嗝嗝，它们的鼻子笔直地指向他，就像投飞镖一样。 剩下的极地蛇像短吻鳄一样迅速而沉默地滑入水中，加入到冰下的追逐中。 “别摔倒，别摔倒，别摔倒！”小嗝嗝恳求道，一边把无牙抱在胸前，不让他跑的时候从马甲上掉下来。 他能听到极地巨蛇越来越近，它们的指甲在冰面上发出刺耳的声音。

Now the shadows of those that were swimming under the ice swooped like swallows under his feet. The American Dream 2 was still steaming alongside the iceberg. 'Hang on, Hiccup!' shouted Camicazi at the steering wheel. 'We're coming to rescue you!' But Hiccup had no intention of hanging on. He was running faster than he ever had done in his life. 'Mfff,' sniffed Bearcub's Grandmother. 'It doesn't look good.' She tut-tutted. 'He's not long for this world, you mark my words.' She held up a skinny finger. 'He's DOOMED, I tell you, DOOMED.'

现在，那些在冰下游泳的人的影子像燕子一样在他脚下飞来飞去。 “美国梦2号”仍在冰山边航行。 “坚持住，小嗝嗝！”卡米卡齐对着方向盘喊道。 “我们来救你了！”但是小嗝嗝不打算再坚持下去了。 他跑得比以往任何时候都快。 “呸！”熊宝宝的奶奶哼了一声。 “看起来不太好。”她啧啧不已。 “他活不了多久了，你记住我的话。”她举起瘦骨嶙峋的手指。 “他死定了，我告诉你，死定了。”

It seemed a fairly safe prediction, under the circumstances. CCCC-CCC—RRUNNNNNK! A great horn speared up through the ice right in front of Hiccup. He swerved around it in the nick of time. CCCC-CCCCRUNNNNK! CRRRUNNK! CRUNNNNKK!!!! Three more appeared, and Hiccup slalomed round them too. 'Kill them!' shrieked Camicazi. Fishlegs had got hold of one of Norbert's great bow-and-arrow harpoons.

在这种情况下，这似乎是一个相当安全的预测。 CCCC-CCC-RRUNNNNNK !一只巨大的角从冰里刺了出来，就在嗝嗝面前。 他在关键时刻突然避开了它。 CCCC-CCCCRUNNNNK !CRRRUNNK !CRUNNNNKK ! !又出现了三个人，小嗝嗝也围着他们团团转。 “杀死他们!卡米卡齐尖叫道。 鱼腿抓住了诺伯的一支大弓箭叉。

It is unclear how he thought he was going to kill FIFTY Polar-serpents with the one harpoon, but he was pointing it in the general direction of the Polar-serpents with the bow upside-down, and his eyes shut. As the harpoon went off Fishlegs fell backwards, letting go of the bow, which ricocheted across the deck, and jammed itself under the rim of the boat. The harpoon sailed through the air, missing the Polar-serpents by at least ten metres. But it was right bang on target for Hiccup, and would have hit him splang in the chest if the rope hadn't run out and pulled it to a sharp halt, sending it crashing to the ice with a clang. 'Why are you shooting at me?' howled a sprinting Hiccup. 'Haven't I got enough problems?' The harpoon clattered in front of him, setting off little sprays of snow as it bounced across the ice. 'Oh I see…' panted Hiccup, and he launched himself at the harpoon as it dragged off… But he just missed catching hold of the rope with both hands. 'Great God Thor… ow!… I could do… with some HELP here…' begged Hiccup, his chin in the snow. But it seemed the Great God Thor was

我们不清楚他是怎么想到要用一支鱼叉杀死五十条极地蛇的，但他把弓倒着对准了极地蛇的大致方向，闭着眼睛。 鱼叉一离开，“鱼腿”就向后一倒，松开了船头，船头在甲板上反弹，卡在了船边下面。 鱼叉在空中飞过，离极地蛇至少十米远。 但对小嗝嗝来说，它正对着目标，要不是绳子跑了出来，把它猛地拉了下来，砰的一声摔在冰上，它就会重重地打在他的胸口上。 “你为什么朝我开枪？”疾跑的小嗝嗝吼道。 “我的问题还不够多吗？”鱼叉在他面前叮叮作响，在冰面上弹起了小雪片。 “哦，我明白了……”小嗝嗝喘着气说，当鱼叉被拖走时，他扑了过去……但是他的两只手都没能抓住绳子。 “伟大的上帝托尔……噢！”小嗝嗝的下巴陷在雪地里，恳求道：“我……我可以……这里有人帮帮我……” 但似乎伟大的神托尔是

temporarily deaf. The Polar-serpents were closing in for the kill, sending out thunderbolts of flame that only just missed incinerating poor Hiccup. Hiccup scrambled to his feet. The harpoon was way out of reach now, his last hope of getting back on board the boat. The iceberg stretched out flat in front of him. He knew he couldn't outrun the Polar-serpents, who were already gaining on him. To his left there was a gigantic cliff of ice, with an enormous dark Cave at the bottom of it, like the open mouth of a monster. Hiccup ran full tilt into the Cave. The Polar-serpents followed. He could hear their talons clicking and scraping on the ice, and their quick, fast breathing, so close that they were trying to grab hold of the ticking-thing bouncing along behind him, like great cats pouncing on a tasty morsel tied to the end of a string. What's that up ahead? thought Hiccup. Oh Woden the Great and Magnificent, I am begging you, please don't let that be a wall, the finish of the Cave, a dead-end, in which case I really am dead… It was a wall. But as Hiccup ran closer still, he could see it was a rough and craggy wall with nooks and crannies and

暂时失聪。极地蛇正在逼近，想要杀死它，它们发出雷鸣般的火焰，差一点就把可怜的小嗝嗝烧成灰烬。 小嗝嗝爬了起来。 鱼叉现在已经够不着了，这是他回到船上的最后希望。 冰山平展在他面前。 他知道自己逃不过极地巨蛇，它们已经追上了他。 在他的左边是一个巨大的冰崖，崖底有一个巨大而黑暗的洞穴，就像怪物张开的嘴巴。 小嗝嗝全速跑进山洞。 极地巨蛇紧随其后。 他能听到它们的爪子在冰面上咔哒咔哒地摩擦着，还有它们急促的呼吸，离得那么近，它们想抓住在他身后蹦蹦跳跳的滴答作响的东西，就像大猫扑向系在绳子末端的美味佳肴一样。 前面那是什么？认为打嗝。 哦，伟大的沃登，我求求你，请不要让它成为一堵墙，洞穴的尽头，一个死胡同，那样的话我真的死了……那是一堵墙。 但当小嗝嗝继续靠近时，他看到那是一堵粗糙而崎岖的墙，有角落和裂缝