Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10 The water seemed to reach up and snatch Barry out of the air. And then he was swept away in a gushing tide. Barry struggled to keep his face above the waves, to keep water from rushing into his nose and mouth. His leg smacked into a piece of wood, but that barely slowed him down. His arm scraped against something sharp. His hand hit something big and furry — a rat? — as the water twisted and turned him and dragged him along.

第十章水似乎要把巴里从空中抓起来。 然后他被汹涌的潮水卷走了。 巴里挣扎着让他的脸露出海浪，防止水冲进他的鼻子和嘴巴。 他的腿撞到了一块木头上，但这几乎没有使他减速。 他的胳膊蹭到了什么锋利的东西。 他的手碰到了一个又大又毛茸茸的东西——一只老鼠? ——水把他扭来扭去，拖着他往前走。

And then, finally — crash — he hit something that stopped him cold. It was a tree. Almost without thinking, Barry threw his arms around the trunk. The water pulled him, trying to suck him back into the flood. But he held on. He wrapped one leg around the tree, then the other. He hugged that tree so tightly he could barely breathe. He gathered his strength and then he managed to shinny up the trunk inch by inch. It was an oak tree. All of the branches had been ripped away but one, which rose out of the water. Barry pulled himself up onto it and sat in the V where the branch met the trunk. He hugged the trunk again, bracing himself against the wind. He couldn't see much in the gray light and the stinging rain. And what he saw hardly seemed real: water in every direction. He felt like he was shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean. The water was filled with branches and wooden boards and other wreckage from the storm. Barry thought of Atlantis, a city lost under the ocean. He'd read about it in one of his favorite comic books.

然后，最后，砰的一声，他撞到了什么东西，使他停了下来。 那是一棵树。巴里几乎不假思索地搂住了箱子。 水拉着他，想把他吸回洪水里。 但他坚持了下来。他把一条腿绕在树上，然后是另一条腿。 他紧紧地抱着那棵树，几乎无法呼吸。 他鼓起力气，一寸一寸地爬上树干。 那是一棵橡树。所有的树枝都被扯掉了，只有一根露出水面。 巴里爬了上去，坐在树枝和树干交接处的V字形位置上。 他再次抱住树干，让自己顶住风。 在灰暗的光线和刺痛的雨中，他看不清什么。 他所看到的几乎不像是真的:四面八方都是水。 他觉得自己好像在大海中遇难了。 水里充满了树枝、木板和风暴留下的其他残骸。 巴里想起了亚特兰蒂斯，一座消失在海底的城市。 他在一本他最喜欢的漫画书里读到过。

Was that what would become of New Orleans? Barry pressed his cheek against the tree. His entire body ached. His hands were ragged from climbing the tree. He started to cry, his sounds drowned out by the wind. "Dad!" Barry screamed. "Mom! Cleo!" He screamed their names until his throat burned. The wind screamed back at him. And then he heard a deep groan and a crack that echoed above the wind. A massive shadow loomed over him. Barry stared in shock: It was a house, pushing through the water like a monster. The windows and doors were gone, and as the house turned slowly in the water, Barry saw that one side had been ripped away. He had to get out of the way. Now! Barry jumped into the water, barely missing a big piece of glass. The house hit the tree with a smash and a groan and then got stuck there. The current started to drag Barry. He fought against it and somehow managed to swim to the house. He reached up and grabbed hold of a window

新奥尔良会变成这样吗? 巴里把脸颊贴在树上。 他全身都痛。他的手因为爬树而变得粗糙。 他哭了起来，他的声音被风淹没了。 “爸爸!”巴里尖叫。“妈妈!克莱奥!”他尖叫着他们的名字，直到喉咙发烫。 风呼啸着向他袭来。 就在这时，他听到一声深沉的呻吟和一声响彻天际的爆裂声。 一个巨大的阴影笼罩着他。 巴里震惊地盯着看:那是一座房子，像怪物一样在水里冲来冲去。 窗户和门都不见了，当房子在水里慢慢转动时，巴里看到有一面被冲走了。 他必须让开。 现在!巴瑞跳进水里，差点砸中一大块玻璃。 房子撞在树上，发出一声巨响，然后就被卡住了。 水流开始拖着巴里。 他奋力挣扎，总算游到了房子里。 他伸手抓住一扇窗户

frame, careful of the jagged glass around the edge. A piece of wood fell into the water right next to Barry. Its bright color glowed in the ghostly light: sky blue. Barry stared at the house. Could it be? Yes. It was Abe's house. Abe Mackay's. And that wasn't all. The sound of ferocious barking rang out. Somewhere in that ripped-apart house was Cruz. The killer dog.

镜框，小心边缘的锯齿状玻璃。 一块木头掉进水里就在巴里旁边。 它明亮的颜色在鬼魅般的光线中闪闪发光:天蓝色。 巴里盯着房子。 是吗?是的。这是亚伯的房子。 安倍麦凯。这还不是全部。 凶猛的犬吠声响起。 克鲁兹就在那栋破房子里。 杀人狗。