11 The Fiancé-Before-the-Fiancé-Before-Last

11. THE FIANCé-BEFORE-THE FIANCé-BEFORE-LAST 'I'm sorry, Fishlegs,' whispered Hiccup, from the darkness of the cage suspended way way way above the forest floor. 'Oh, don't worry,' sighed Fishlegs, his voice still tight with disappointment. 'I wouldn't exactly be thrilled to find that I was related to these guys anyway. Even by Archipelago standards they seem more than extraordinarily loopy. It's just that it would be nice, just once, to be the Hero and not the Big Joke. And it would be nice to know who my family were.' 'We're your family, us Hooligans,' whispered Hiccup. 'Toothless and me. In the meantime.' There was another long pause. 'Thanks for following me, Hiccup,' Fishlegs whispered back after some time. 'Excuse me,' said a voice from the cage next door, the moonlight illuminating a young man wearing a helmet with the distinctive horns of the Lost Tribe. 'Sorry to disturb, but the guy two cages down would like to have a word with you.' 'HICCUP!' bellowed a hearty voice from three

11. “对不起，鱼腿，”小嗝嗝从悬在森林地面上的笼子里的黑暗中小声说。 “哦，别担心，”鱼腿叹了口气，他的声音仍然因为失望而紧张。 “如果我发现自己和这些人有血缘关系，我也不会很高兴。 即使以群岛的标准来看，它们也不仅仅是异常的愚蠢。 只是当一次英雄，而不是大笑话，会很好。 要是能知道我的家人是谁就好了。“我们是你的家人，我们这些流氓，”小嗝嗝低声说。 “无牙和我。与此同时。”又是一阵长时间的沉默。 “谢谢你跟着我，小嗝嗝。”过了一会儿，鱼腿低声回答。 “对不起，”隔壁笼子里传来一个声音，月光照亮了一个戴着头盔的年轻人，头盔上有失落部落特有的犄角。 “抱歉打扰了，但隔着两个笼子的家伙想跟你说句话。“打嗝!三楼里一个爽朗的声音喊道

cages down. 'HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK THE THIRD! I COULDN'T REALLY SEE WHO YOU WERE WITH ALL THOSE BERSERKS ROUND YOU, BUT FANCY MEETING YOU HERE!' 'Who's that?' whispered Hiccup, trying to squint through the cages and the darkness, and seeing nothing but the dim outline of someone bobbing up and down with excitement. 'It's me!' bellowed the voice. 'Humungously Hotshot the Hero! Don't you remember? Lava-Lout island? The thousands and thousands of Exterminator Dragons? The volcano exploding?* Now that was a tight spot…' *You can read about this in How to Twist a Dragon's Tale. A ripple of excitement went along the cages. 1st Fiancé: 'I don't believe it! It's Humungously Hotshot the Hero!' 5th Fiancé: 'It's almost worth being fed horribly to the Beast, just to have the pleasure of meeting the bravest, coolest man in the Archipelago…' 8th Fiancé: 'NONSENSE! I am in fact the bravest, coolest man in the Archipelago, and I notice that this Hotshot has lost some weight. A proper Hero has a good proper belly…' 5th Fiancé: 'How dare you say that about

笼子里。“嗝嗝，可怕的黑线鳕，第三条！”你周围有那么多疯子，我看不清你是谁，不过真没想到在这里见到你！“那是谁？”小嗝嗝小声说，试图透过笼子和黑暗眯起眼睛，但什么也看不见，只看到一个人的模糊轮廓，兴奋地上下摆动。 “是我!”那声音吼道。 “超级能手英雄！”你不记得了吗？ Lava-Lout岛?成千上万的灭虫龙？ 火山爆发了？你可以在《如何扭曲龙的故事》中读到这一点。 笼子里一阵兴奋的涟漪。 第一个未婚夫：“我不相信！这是《超级英雄》！第五个未婚夫：“把可怕的东西喂给野兽，仅仅是为了享受见到群岛上最勇敢、最酷的男人的乐趣……”事实上，我是群岛上最勇敢、最酷的人，而且我注意到这个能人瘦了一些。 一个真正的英雄有一个很好的肚子……”第五位未婚夫：“你怎么敢这么说

Humungously Hotshot the Hero! Reach for your sword and meet me with steel!' 8th Fiancé: (promptly) 'Whenever and Wheresoever you wish!' 5th Fiancé: (between gritted teeth) 'Your face, is uglier than a baboon's bottom…' 8th Fiancé: 'And you have the mug of a pig with the plague…'

超级英雄！拿起你的剑，用钢铁迎接我！第八个未婚妻：（立刻）“无论何时何地，只要你愿意！”第五个未婚妻：（咬紧牙关）“你的脸，比狒狒的屁股还丑……”第八位未婚夫：“你的脸像得了瘟疫的猪……”

5th Fiancé: 'FOOL!' 8th Fiancé: 'MORON!' 5th Fiancé: 'VEGETARIAN!' And if only they had been free, the Fiancés would clearly have been swordfighting madly, but as it was they were heavily chained and trussed up, so all they could do was throw themselves wildly about their cages, which they did with gusto.

第五个未婚夫：“傻瓜！第八个未婚夫：“笨蛋！”第五个未婚夫：“素食主义者！”如果他们是自由的，那么他们肯定会疯狂地斗剑，但事实上，他们被沉重地锁着，被捆绑起来，所以他们所能做的就是在笼子里疯狂地跳来跳去，他们也很喜欢这样做。

'Ignore them,' grinned Humungous, 'they do that all day long. What are you doing here, Hiccup?' 'I seem to be Princess Tantrum's twelfth Fiancé. And how about YOU?' asked Hiccup, immensely cheered by the presence of Humungous, whom he admired enormously. 'I thought you would Never Love Again?' Humungous's last Impossible Task had led to him spending fifteen years in the Lava-Lout Jail Forges, which was enough to put anybody off. 'Oh, that was before I met HER,' said Humungous rapturously, and he shook a Heroic fist at the moon above. 'CAN'T A MAN HAVE A SECOND CHANCE?' he shouted at the starry heavens. 1st Fiancé: 'YOU BETCHA!' 3rd Fiancé: 'TOO RIGHT…' 5th Fiancé: 'YESSIREE!' The Fiancés rattled their cages madly. 'IT IS AN HONOUR TO DIE FOR THE LOVE OF PRINCESS TANTRUM!' cried Humungous, Heroic to the last. And now the you betchas and the yessirees were a little more thoughtful from the other Fiancés, as if they hadn't bargained on actually dying for their love.

“别理他们，”Humungous咧嘴笑着说，“他们整天都这样。 你在这儿干什么，小嗝嗝？“我好像是坦坦姆公主的第十二个未婚妻。” 你呢？小嗝嗝问。他非常崇拜胡莫格斯，看到他在场，他感到非常高兴。 “我以为你再也不会爱了？”胡蒙格斯的最后一项不可能完成的任务让他在Lava-Lout监狱蹲了十五年，这足以让任何人望而却步。 “哦，那是在我遇见她之前。”胡蒙格斯兴高采烈地说，他对着天上的月亮挥舞着一个英雄般的拳头。 “一个人就不能有第二次机会吗？”他冲着满天星斗的天空喊道。 第一个未婚夫：“当然！”第三个未婚夫：“太对了……”第五个未婚夫：“是的！”未婚夫们疯狂地摇着笼子。 “为公主的爱而死是一种荣誉！”Humungous叫道，英勇到最后。 而现在，其他未婚夫们的“赞成”和“赞成”则更体贴了一些，仿佛他们并没有为自己的爱付出生命。

'But dying is out of the question!' called out Humungously Hotshot. 'Princess Tantrum would be so upset. We must get out of here at all costs.' 'Easier said than done. And even if by some miracle we were to get out of here, who is she going to marry?' Hiccup pointed out. All the Fiancés together: 'ME!' 'Well she can't marry all of you,' Hiccup said. 'Hang on a second… How many cages away are you, Humungous? One, two, three… HUMUNGOUS! You must be the Fiancé-Before-the-Fiancé-Before-Last! Congratulations!' 'I suppose I must,' admitted Humungously Hotshot. 'And thank you. What does that mean?' 'Princess Tantrum said the Fiancé she was in LOVE with was the Fiancé-Before-the-Fiancé-Before- Last,' explained Hiccup. Humungous coughed modestly. 'I suspected she might be,' he said. 1st Fiancé: 'Well, that's a bit of a blow.' 6th Fiancé: 'You mean… considering we're all about to be fed to the Beast and everything?' 3rd Fiancé: 'Yes, I think it's pretty gutting really… I spent a lot of time on that love poetry, I really did, it was soppy as anything.'

“可是死是不可能的！”巨能手喊道。 “坦坦姆公主会很难过的。 我们必须不惜一切代价离开这里。”“说起来容易做起来难。 即使出现奇迹，我们能离开这里，她又要嫁给谁呢？”小嗝嗝指出。 所有的未婚夫们齐声说：“我！“她总不能把你们都嫁给她吧，”希卡普说。 “等一下……你离这儿有几个笼子，胡蒙？” 一、二、三……巨大无比！你一定是前任未婚夫的前任！恭喜你!“我想我必须这样做，”大能手承认。 “谢谢你。这是什么意思？小嗝嗝解释说：“坦图姆公主说，她爱上的未婚夫是前——前——前——前任的未婚夫。 Humungous谦虚地咳嗽了一下。 “我怀疑她可能是，”他说。 第一个未婚夫：“嗯，这是一个打击。第六个未婚妻：“你的意思是……考虑到我们都要被喂给野兽什么的？”第三未婚夫：“是的，我觉得它真的很烂……我在那首爱情诗上花了很多时间，真的，它真的很伤感。”