19 Keep Kicking, It’s a Long Swim Home

19. KEEP KICKING, IT'S A LONG SWIM HOME What happened to Hiccup? As I said, he jumped off the mast in a not-very-perfect swallow dive. Toothless dived after him, folding back his wings. It was a long way down, and by the time Hiccup reached the breath-stoppingly cold sea, he was moving at quite a speed. Momentum took Hiccup quite a way downward, and as he resurfaced, he hit his head on a cauldron, which was slowly sinking down to the bottom. Hiccup spat out water, gasping and confused, not sure where he was, or who he was or what was going on. Blood was pouring into his eyes, and he fainted. Toothless let out a scream of alarm to Camicazi and Fishlegs, and dived down to pull his Master up so that his face was out of the water. Camicazi immediately set out in her sprawling crawl to try and help, but she was some distance from where Hiccup had landed, so she was never going to be able to reach him in time. Fishlegs, on the other hand, was very close. As Hiccup disappeared under the water for the second time, Fishlegs let go of the table, and splashed haphazardly across to his friend.

19. 继续踢吧，回家还有很长的路要走小嗝嗝怎么了？ 就像我说的，他从桅杆上跳下来，做了一个不太完美的燕式俯冲。 无牙扑向他，收起翅膀。 下潜了很长一段路，当嗝嗝到达冰冷得令人窒息的海面时，他的速度相当快。 这股冲力把小嗝嗝往下推了好长一段路，当他浮出水面时，头撞在了一个坩埚上，坩埚正在慢慢沉下去。 嗝嗝吐出水来，喘着气，迷惑不解，不知道自己在哪里，不知道自己是谁，也不知道发生了什么事。 血涌进了他的眼睛，他昏了过去。 无牙向卡米卡齐和鱼腿发出一声惊恐的尖叫，然后潜入水中把主人拉上来，这样他的脸就露出了水面。 卡米卡齐立即爬着去帮忙，但她离小嗝嗝降落的地方有一段距离，所以她不可能及时到达他身边。 另一方面，鱼腿就很接近了。 当小嗝嗝第二次消失在水里时，鱼腿放开了桌子，随意地溅向他的朋友。

He hauled Hiccup up, still unconscious, and heaved him a couple of metres or so to the relative safety of the floating table. 'Oh for Thor's sake, oh for Thor's sake… is he all right?' asked Camicazi as she reached them. Hiccup was sprawled floppily on his back, still breathing but with his eyes closed, and one arm trailing into the water. 'I don't know…' replied Fishlegs anxiously. 'He's still alive, but he's been knocked out. I think he hit his head on something under the water.' 'We need to get him out, fast,' cried Camicazi. 'and get him warm.' The storm had passed as suddenly as it arrived, and was already moving on to the land called America, leaving chaos in its wake. It was as if an angry god had turned the ship upside-down, shaken out its contents, and tossed the boat to the depths. All around them, the surviving Hysterics were striking out for the American shore, swimming around the myriad of objects floating in the waters. Saucepans, chairs, tables, hammocks, chessboards, stools, fishing equipment, pairs of trousers: Norbert had been very ambitious about the amount of STUFF that he was taking to America.

他把昏迷不醒的小嗝嗝拉了起来，把他举了几米左右，放到了相对安全的漂浮桌子上。 “看在托尔的份上，看在托尔的份上……他还好吗？”卡米卡齐走到他们跟前问。 小嗝嗝懒洋洋地仰面躺着，还在呼吸，但眼睛闭着，一只胳膊拖到水里。 “我不知道……”鱼腿焦急地回答。 “他还活着，但他被打晕了。 我想他的头撞到水下的什么东西了。“我们得把他弄出来，快，”卡米卡齐喊道。 “让他暖和起来。”风暴来得突然，去得也突然，而且已经向美洲大陆移动了，留下了一片混乱。 就好像一个愤怒的神把船翻了个底朝天，把里面的东西抖了出来，把船扔进了深渊。 在他们周围，幸存下来的歇斯底里号正在奋力向美国海岸游去，它们在水中漂浮的无数物体之间游来游去。 平底锅、椅子、桌子、吊床、棋盘、凳子、钓鱼用具、裤子：诺伯特对他带到美国的东西的数量非常有野心。

And they were all now strewn about the waves, and would be washed up for many years on those white beaches, and I wonder what the native American peoples made of them when they found them. Camicazi tried to pull the table towards the land, but Fishlegs was wondering what the little figures walking about on the beaches would make of THEM when they swam up the shore. It is one thing to turn up in a new country in all the pomp and circumstance of a great big boat, heavily armed, and laden down with good things to eat and trade. It is quite a different thing, as poor refugees throughout history will tell you, to turn up practically naked, unarmed, defenceless and with nothing in your hands. As strangers from an alien nation, would they be greeted with interest and mercy? Or would they be greeted with fear, and a hail of arrows? 'No!' cried Fishlegs, pulling in the other direction. 'No! I think we should swim over there!' And he pointed out to sea. 'Are you out of your tiny little mind?' asked Camicazi. 'The Archipelago is thousands and thousands of miles away across the Great West Ocean. You think we're going to SWIM to it????'

现在它们都散落在海浪中，在那些白色的海滩上被海浪冲刷了许多年，我想知道当印第安人发现它们时，他们是怎么看待它们的。 卡米卡齐试图把桌子拉向陆地，但鱼腿在想，当他们游到岸边时，那些在海滩上走来走去的小人儿会怎么看他们。 在一个新的国家里，坐着一艘大船，全副武装，载满了好吃的和交易的好东西，这是一回事。 历史上贫穷的难民会告诉你，这是完全不同的事情，他们几乎赤身裸体，手无寸铁，手无寸铁，手里什么都没有。 作为来自异国他乡的陌生人，他们会受到兴趣和仁慈的欢迎吗？ 或者他们会受到恐惧和箭雨的迎接？ “不!鱼腿喊道，向另一个方向拉。 “不!我想我们应该游过去！”他指着大海。 “你是不是疯了？”卡米卡齐问道。 “群岛远在千里之外，横跨西大洋。 你以为我们能游到那里？？？？”

'No, of course not,' gasped Fishlegs, accidentally swallowing a big gulp of sea-water. 'But I think I can see the outline of a boat on the horizon… I just have this really strong feeling it wouldn't be a good idea for us to land on that beach…' The faint noise of shouting coming from the beach in question seemed to underline that feeling.

“不，当然不，”鱼腿喘着气说，不小心吞了一大口海水。 “但我觉得我能看到地平线上有一艘船的轮廓……我只是有一种强烈的感觉，我们在那片海滩上降落不是个好主意……”从那片海滩传来的微弱的喊叫声似乎强化了这种感觉。

'Oh I don't know,' shivered Camicazi, faint with weariness and cold. 'OK, let's swim out a little further, we can always change our minds,' she agreed. So they began to swim away from the beach.

“哦，我不知道，”卡米卡齐颤抖着说，又累又冷，昏过去了。 “好吧，让我们游得更远一点，我们随时可以改变主意，”她同意道。 于是他们开始游离海滩。

'But you can't live in the ocean! Humans haven't got gills!' Stormfly pointed out. Toothless fanned Hiccup's face with his wings, to try and get him to wake up. 'We n-n-need you M-m-master! These h-h-humans don't know what they're doing!' The thing is, after a while, as they swam out further and further, it became clear that they couldn't necessarily change their minds. They were so weak with cold and exhaustion that they weren't swimming fast at all, particularly because between the two of them they had to push the table along the water and over the waves. And there must have been a strong, unseen current beneath them, for they were moving out to sea at a very rapid rate. And the sails that Fishlegs thought he had seen seemed to vanish in the sea-mist as they swam towards them,

“但是你不能住在海里！”人类没有鳃！”暴风苍蝇指出。 无牙用翅膀扇着小嗝嗝的脸，想让他醒过来。 “我们需要你——需要你——主人！”这些————人类不知道他们在做什么！”问题是，过了一段时间，当他们游得越来越远时，很明显，他们不一定能改变主意。 他们又冷又累，游得一点也不快，特别是因为他们俩必须一起推着桌子在水面上和波浪上移动。 他们下面一定有一股强劲的、看不见的水流，因为他们正以非常快的速度向大海移动。 鱼腿以为他看见的帆，在向它们游去的时候，似乎消失在了海雾中，