6 The House on the River

CHAPTER 6 The House on the River The river kept on rising for ten or twelve days, until at last it was over the banks. The water was three or four feet deep on the island. During the day, we would paddle all over the island in the canoe. It was cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing. One night, just before daylight, a whole house came floating down the river. It was two stories tall and tilted over. We paddled to it and climbed

第六章河上的房子河水持续上涨了十二天，最后涨过了河岸。 岛上的水有三四英尺深。 白天，我们会划着独木舟走遍全岛。 即使太阳炙热，树林深处还是凉爽阴凉的。 一天晚上，就在天亮之前，一幢房子顺着河漂了下来。 它有两层楼高，倾斜着。 我们划过去爬了上去

in an upstairs window. There was something laying on the floor in the far corner that looked like a man. So Jim said: "Hello, you!" But the figure didn't budge. So I hollered, and then Jim said: "That man ain't asleep. He's dead. You hold still. I'll go and see." He went in, looked at the man and said: "It's a dead man. Yes, indeed. He's been shot in the back. It looks like he's been dead for two or three days. Come in, Huck, but don't look at his face. It's too scary." I didn't look at him at all. Jim threw some old rags over him to make sure I wouldn't see the man's face, but he didn't need to do that. I didn't want to see him. We loaded the things we found there into the canoe and paddled home. After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess how he had been killed, but Jim didn't want to. He said it would bring bad luck

在楼上的窗户里。远处角落的地板上躺着一个东西，看起来像个男人。 于是吉姆说：“你好！”但这个数字并没有改变。 于是我大声喊叫，然后吉姆说：“那个人没有睡着。 他死了。你别动。 我去看看。”他走进去，看着那个人说：“是个死人。 是的,确实。他背后中枪了。 看起来他已经死了两三天了。 进来，哈克，但不要看他的脸。 太吓人了。”我根本没看他。 吉姆把一些破布盖在他身上，以确保我看不见那个人的脸，但他不需要这样做。 我不想见到他。我们把在那里找到的东西装进独木舟，划回家。 早饭后，我想谈谈那个死人，猜猜他是怎么被杀的，但吉姆不愿意。 他说这会带来厄运

and the dead man might come back to haunt us. I didn't say any more about it, but I wished I knew who shot the man and why they did it. The next morning I said it was getting slow and dull. I wanted to do something new. I decided to go across the river and find out what was happening. Jim liked the idea, but he said I must go in the dark and be very careful. Then he thought about it and said that I should put on some of the clothes we had found in the house and dress up like a girl. That way no one would think it was really me. I rowed across the river and talked to an old woman there. She saw through my disguise right away and I felt a little foolish about it. But she only knew that I was a boy, not Huck Finn. She must have thought I was a runaway. From her I learned that people did believe that I was dead, but she said they thought that Jim had killed me! She said Jim had run away the same night I had disappeared, so he must have done it.

那个死人可能会回来缠着我们。 我没有再多说什么，但我希望知道是谁枪杀了那个人，他们为什么这么做。 第二天早上，我说它变得缓慢而沉闷。 我想做点新东西。 我决定过河去看看发生了什么事。 吉姆喜欢这个主意，但他说我必须摸黑走，而且要非常小心。 然后他想了想，说我应该穿上我们在房子里找到的一些衣服，打扮得像个女孩。 那样就没人会认为是我干的。 我划船过河，和那里的一位老妇人交谈。 她立刻识破了我的伪装，我觉得自己有点傻。 但她只知道我是个男孩，不知道哈克·费恩。 她一定以为我是离家出走的。 从她那里我了解到人们确实相信我死了，但她说他们认为是吉姆杀了我！她说吉姆在我失踪的当天晚上逃跑了，所以一定是他干的。

Even worse, she said people were on their way to Jackson's Island to search it that very night. She was sure they would catch the murderer. Well right away I made up an excuse to leave and headed back to our camp. When I got there, Jim was asleep. I said: "Get up, Jim! There's not a minute to lose. They're after us!" He didn't ask any questions. In fact, he never even spoke. But the way he moved showed he was scared. In half an hour we had everything on our raft. I got in the canoe and looked around. I couldn't see anyone coming. Then we tied the canoe to the raft, got both of them out on the river, and started out. Neither of us said a single word.

更糟糕的是，她说当晚就有人在去杰克逊岛搜查的路上。 她确信他们会抓住凶手的。 我马上找了个借口离开，回到了我们的营地。 我到那儿时，吉姆睡着了。 我说：“起来，吉姆！一分钟也不能耽搁了。 他们在追我们！”他没有问任何问题。 事实上，他甚至没有说话。 但他移动的方式表明他很害怕。 半小时后，我们把所有的东西都装上了筏子。 我上了独木舟，环顾四周。 我没看见有人来。 然后我们把独木舟系在木筏上，把他们俩都拉到河上，出发了。 我们俩谁也没说一句话。