18 Dying Like a Hero

18. DYING LIKE A HERO Meanwhile, back up at the Berserk Treetop Village, Fishlegs was having his own problems. Alvin had insisted that HE should be the next to go. 'Good luck, Fishlegs!' shouted Humungously Hotshot the Hero, as Fishlegs's cage was winched over the green abyss. 'Remember, you die a HERO, and a Fiancé of Tantrum O'UGerly!' 1st Fiancé: 'YOU BETCHA!' 3rd Fiancé: 'TOO RIGHT…' 9th Fiancé: 'YESSIREE!' 'I die a Hero, I die a Hero,' muttered poor terrified Fishlegs, as the Scarers swarmed six-deep around his cage, shrieking: 'He's go-o-o-oing to di-I-I- I-ieeee… He's go-o-o-oing to di-I-I-I-ieeee…'– 'I die a Hero… oh… for Thor's sake…' 'HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!' roared the watching Berserks. 'Look at all those Scarers! He's terrified!' 'Please… just let me die a HERO,' said Fishlegs to himself. 'And not a BIG JOKE…' To Fishlegs's immense surprise, he heard what he thought was the sound of CAMICAZI's voice shouting

18. 与此同时，回到狂暴树顶村，鱼腿也有自己的问题。 阿尔文坚持他应该是下一个离开的人。 “祝你好运，鱼腿！当鱼腿的笼子被绞盘吊到绿色的深渊上时，英雄大侠霍奇特喊道。 “记住，你死的时候是个英雄，而且是坦图姆·奥格里的未婚妻！”第一个未婚妻：“当然！”第三个未婚夫：“太对了……”第九个未婚夫：“是的！”' '我死了一个英雄,我死一个英雄,”咕哝着可怜的害怕Fishlegs,作为的吓人者蜂拥six-deep在他的笼子里,尖叫着:“他的go-o-o-oing, di-I-I——I-ieeee…他的go-o-o-oing, di-I-I-I-ieeee…”——“我死一个英雄……哦……为雷神的缘故……”“HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !围观的狂汉吼道。 “看看那些惊吓专员！”他是害怕!“求你了……就让我像个英雄一样死去吧，”鱼腿自言自语道。 令鱼腿大为吃惊的是，他听到了他以为是卡米卡齐在大喊大叫的声音

louder than all the rest (which would be typical of Camicazi, for she had a particularly penetrating pitch when she wanted to be heard). 'SING!' shouted the Voice-That-Sounded-Like-Camicazi, 'SING YOUR TRIBAL ANTHEM!' And Fishlegs remembered that Hiccup had done just that, when he was about to die on the slopes of the Volcano.* But what Tribal Anthem should he sing? Where was he from? Who knew from whence Fishlegs's lobster pot had set sail thirteen and a half years ago? Again, Fishlegs found out who he was while sitting in the dark, in a moment of dreadful peril. I am a Hooligan, thought Fishlegs, by adoption, if not by birth. And he began to sing the Hooligan Tribal Anthem, which he discovered for the first time was strangely appropriate to himself:

比其他所有人都要响亮（这是典型的卡米卡齐，因为当她想被听到的时候，她的音调特别锐利）。 “唱!那个听起来像卡米卡齐的声音喊道，“唱你们部落的圣歌！”鱼腿记起小嗝嗝就是这么做的，当时他正要死在火山的斜坡上。但是他应该唱什么部落圣歌呢？ 他从哪里来？谁知道十三年半前，鱼腿的龙虾罐是从哪里起航的？ 鱼腿又一次在黑暗中发现了他是谁，在这可怕的危险时刻。 我是个流氓，鱼腿想，就算不是天生的，也是被收养的。 他开始唱起了《流氓部落赞歌》，他第一次发现这首歌奇怪地适合他自己：

I didn't mean to come here. And I didn't mean to STAY. It's just where the sea wind BLEW ME. ONE ACCIDENTAL DAY.

我不是故意来这儿的。 我也没打算留下来。 那只是海风吹向我的地方。 偶然的一天。

The Scarers lessened around Fishlegs's cage as he was winched above the abyss. They began to fly off as the singing made Fishlegs less scared and therefore less smelly. Seeing this, Fishlegs's voice grew stronger, and he began to shout the words out defiantly, pushing the Scarers away as he yelled out the words. 'It wasn't where I meant to be, And it wasn't where I had my start, But now I'll never leave these rain-soaked bogs Because Berk is where I left my heart!'* Seeing the Scarers leaving the cage in great grey drifts, gradually the Berserks stopped laughing. As the cage moved lower down, the last of the Scarers rose up like butterflies, leaving Fishlegs clearly visible, chest out, shouting the words at the top of his voice. There is nothing the Tribes of the Archipelago admire more than bravery. Even mad-as-a-hatter Tribes like the Berserks can appreciate and respect it. So a lone Berserk shouted out, 'He IS a Hero!' And the Berserks and the Fiancés began to cheer, with rapturous applause and appreciative howls as the cage moved inexorably lower, taking Fishlegs to what

鱼腿被吊到深渊上方时，惊吓专员们在鱼腿的笼子周围散开了。 他们开始飞走，因为歌声使鱼腿不那么害怕，因此不那么臭了。 看到这里，鱼腿的声音变得更大了，他开始挑衅地喊出这些话，一边喊着，一边把惊吓专员推开。 这不是我想去的地方，也不是我开始的地方，但现在我永远不会离开这被雨水浸透的沼泽，因为博克是我的心离开的地方！看到惊吓专员们一窝蜂地离开笼子，狂暴者们渐渐地停止了笑。 随着笼子向下移动，最后一个惊吓专员像蝴蝶一样站了起来，清晰地露出鱼腿，挺起胸膛，扯着嗓子喊着那些话。 群岛上的部落最钦佩的莫过于勇敢。 即使是像狂暴族这样的疯狂部落也会欣赏和尊重它。 于是一个孤独的狂战士喊道：“他是个英雄！”狂暴者和未婚夫们开始欢呼起来，伴随着热烈的掌声和感激的嚎叫，笼子无情地向下移动，把鱼腿带到什么地方

everybody thought would be his Doom. And that was when it happened. A great shaking below them all. Massive trees, of a circumference as broad as a house, shivered like grasses in a meadow, sending unsure-footed Berserks raining down, screaming, into the green abyss below. 'What's happening?' screamed Humungous, as the trees heaved and creaked and the whole forest seemed to lurch beneath them in a slow green wave. 'Is it an earthquake?' 'I don't know…' the Fiancé-Before-Last yelled back, taking a strong grip of the bars of his cage. The jungle trembled to the excruciating sound of trees being torn out by the roots, and then right before their unbelieving eyes, through the green canopy below, there thrust an impossibly large dragon's head, mouth open wide in a magnificent roar. It broke screaming through the canopy as if it were breaking out of its egg. Another wild and terrible scream, mighty trees crashing down all around it, and the mighty dragon burst out of the forest, blotting out the moon. It began to beat its torn and ragged wings, and the wind sent a hurricane blast through the trees before the Great

大家都认为这将是他的末日。 就在那时，事情发生了。 他们的身下一阵剧烈的震动。 周长和房子一样宽的大树，像草地上的草一样颤抖着，把步履蹒跚的狂暴者像雨点一样，尖叫着落在下面的绿色深渊里。 “发生了什么?胡蒙格尖叫道，树木在摇晃，吱吱作响，整个森林似乎在它们下面缓缓地摇晃着，形成一股绿色的波浪。 “是地震吗？”“我不知道……”前任未婚夫大声回答，紧紧抓住笼子的栅栏。 随着树木被连根拔起的痛苦声音，整个丛林都在颤抖，然后，就在他们不相信的眼前，透过下面的绿色树冠，伸出了一个大得令人难以置信的龙头，张大了嘴巴，发出了一声壮丽的咆哮。 它冲出树冠，尖叫着，就像破壳而出一样。 又是一声狂野而可怕的尖叫，周围高大的树木轰然倒下，巨龙冲出森林，遮住了月亮。 它开始拍打它那破烂不堪的翅膀，狂风在大树前的树林里吹来一阵飓风

Creature launched itself up and into the air. 'For Thor's sake… for Thor's sake…' whispered Fishlegs, shading his eyes as he looked upward at the great dark cloud of dragon above, 'for Thor's sake…' And on its back, perched high on the back of the Great Creature, was the first human being to ride the Dragon Furious in one hundred years. It was Hiccup.

那个生物把自己腾空而起。 “看在托尔的份上……看在托尔的份上……”鱼腿抬起头来，遮住眼睛，低声说，“看在托尔的份上……”在它的背上，高高地栖息在这只伟大生物的背上，是一百年来第一个骑上怒龙的人。 是小嗝嗝。