8 The Fate of the Wreck

CHAPTER 8 The Fate of the Wreck I caught my breath and almost fainted. Stuck on a wreck with a gang like that! But there was no time to be scared. We had to find their boat for ourselves. We searched and searched and finally we found it. We were almost on board when the door opened. One of the men looked out. He was standing just a couple of feet ahead of me, but he didn't see me. He moved back in to talk to the other man and I got into the boat with Jim right

第八章沉船的命运我屏住了呼吸，几乎晕了过去。 和那样一群人困在沉船上！但是没有时间害怕了。 我们得自己去找他们的船。 我们找啊找，终于找到了。 我们快要上船时，门开了。 其中一个人向外望去。 他就站在我前面几英尺的地方，但他没有看见我。 他搬回来和另一个人说话，我和吉姆一起上了船

behind me. I cut the rope with my knife and away we went! We didn't touch an oar. We didn't speak. We barely breathed. We went gliding silently away from the wreck. Soon we were so far away that the darkness covered her completely. We were safe and we knew it. When we were far downstream, we saw the lantern show like a little spark at the door for a second. We knew that the rascals now knew they had missed their boat. They were beginning to understand that they were in just as much trouble as their partner. I started to worry about those men. I said to Jim: "I'll think up some kind of story so I can get somebody to go for that gang and get them off that wreck." Soon after, we found our raft. We were mighty glad to be on it again. We piled all of the stuff from the gang's boat onto the raft and Jim

我的后面。我用刀割断绳子，我们就出发了！我们没有碰桨。 我们没有说话。我们几乎不能呼吸。 我们悄无声息地离开了沉船。 很快我们就走得很远，黑暗把她完全笼罩了。 我们知道我们是安全的。 当我们游到下游很远的地方时，有那么一瞬间，我们看到门口的灯笼像一个小火花。 我们知道那些流氓现在知道他们错过了机会。 他们开始明白，他们的麻烦和他们的伴侣一样多。 我开始担心那些人了。 我对吉姆说：“我要编个故事，找个人去救那帮人，把他们从沉船上救下来。” 不久之后，我们找到了我们的木筏。 我们非常高兴能再次登上它。 我们把船上所有的东西都堆到木筏和吉姆身上

floated ahead with it a little ways. He lit a lantern so I could find him again later. I took the boat and rowed to the shore. When I got there I found a watchman asleep next to a ferryboat. I told him about the gang on the wreck, but it was too late. After he left and I found Jim again, we saw the wreck itself, dim and dusky, sliding along down the river! A cold shiver went through me. The wreck was very deep in the water and I couldn't see anyone on board. Before dawn, Jim and I hid the raft and the boat. Then we laid down and slept like dead people. When we got up, we went through the stuff the gang had stolen. We found a lot of clothes, books, and other things. We had never been so rich in our lives. We spent the afternoon talking and I read from the books. I told Jim about what had happened inside the wreck and said these things were adventures. He said he didn't want

带着它向前漂了一小段路。 他点了一盏灯笼，以便我稍后能再找到他。 我划船到岸边。 当我到达那里时，我发现一个守夜人在渡船旁边睡着了。 我告诉了他沉船上那帮人的事，但已经太晚了。 在他离开后，我又找到了吉姆，我们看到了沉船本身，模糊而灰暗，沿着河滑行！我浑身打了个寒颤。 沉船沉在很深的水里，我看不到船上的人。 黎明前，吉姆和我把木筏和小船藏了起来。 然后我们躺下睡得像死人一样。 我们起床后，翻了翻那帮匪徒偷的东西。 我们发现了很多衣服、书和其他东西。 我们一生中从未如此富有过。 我们花了一下午的时间聊天，我从书上读了一些东西。 我把沉船里发生的事告诉了吉姆，说这些都是奇遇。 他说他不想要

any more of those. I read to him about kings and dukes and earls. The book described how they dressed and talked, calling each other your majesty, your grace, your lordship, and so on, instead of mister. Some of them even spoke French. We guessed that it would take us three nights to get to Cairo, which was at the bottom of Illinois where the Ohio River comes in. We could sell the raft and take a steamboat into Ohio. From there we could get into the free States, where we would be out of trouble. Jim missed his children terribly and talked about getting someone to fetch them for him once he was in the free states. I knew there would be big trouble for each of us if we were caught before we could get there. Jim would be punished for running away, and I could get in trouble for helping him. On the second night we got lost and separated in some fog. I was in the canoe and Jim was on

再来一个。我给他读关于国王、公爵和伯爵的故事。 这本书描述了他们的穿着和谈话方式，他们称呼对方为“陛下”、“阁下”、“阁下”等等，而不是“先生”。 他们中的一些人甚至说法语。 我们估计要花三个晚上才能到达开罗，开罗位于伊利诺斯州的底部，俄亥俄河从那里流入。 我们可以卖掉木筏，坐汽船去俄亥俄州。 从那里，我们可以进入自由州，在那里，我们将摆脱麻烦。 吉姆非常想念他的孩子们，他说，等他到了自由州，就找人来接他们。 我知道，如果我们在到达那里之前被抓住，我们每个人都会有大麻烦。 吉姆会因为逃跑而受到惩罚，而我可能会因为帮助他而惹上麻烦。 第二天晚上，我们迷路了，在雾中走散了。 我在独木舟上，吉姆在上面

the raft. It took us a long time to find each other again. When we did, we found we had drifted right past Cairo. We had no choice but to take the canoe back. We slept all day among the cottonwood thicket so we could paddle back at night. When we went back to the raft after dark, the canoe was gone! We'd had a lot of bad luck by then and were mighty upset about it. We didn't say a word for a good while. There wasn't anything to say. We decided to go along down the river on the raft until we found a chance to buy a canoe. Then we would try to paddle back. We didn't want to borrow one, the way pap would, for that might set people after us. So we shoved out after dark on the raft. Then more bad luck hit us. The night got gray and thick, which is the next meanest thing to fog. You can't tell the shape of the river and you can't see far at all. It got to be very late and still.

筏子。我们花了很长时间才重新找到彼此。 当我们这样做的时候，我们发现我们已经漂过了开罗。 我们别无选择，只好把独木舟开回去。 我们在白杨丛中睡了一整天，这样晚上就可以划回去了。 天黑后我们回到木筏上时，独木舟不见了！那时候我们运气不好，非常难过。 我们有好一会儿一句话也没说。 没有什么可说的。 我们决定乘木筏顺流而下，直到找到机会买到独木舟。 然后我们试着划回去。 我们不想像爸爸那样借，因为那样会招来别人的追杀。 于是我们在天黑后乘木筏出发了。 然后更多的厄运降临了我们。 夜色变得灰暗而厚重，这是仅次于雾的最糟糕的东西。 你看不清河的形状，也看不清远处。 当时已经很晚了，而且很安静。

Just then, along came a steamboat up the river. We lit the lantern and judged she would see it. We could hear her pounding along, but we didn't see her good till she was close. She aimed right for us. They often do that and try to see how close they can come without touching. Then the pilot sticks his head out and laughs and thinks he's mighty smart. Well here she comes, and she didn't seem to be veering off a bit. She was a big one and she was coming in a hurry, too, looking like a black cloud with rows of glow-worms around it. There was a yell at us, a jingling of bells to stop the engines, and a lot of cursing and whistling of steam. As Jim went overboard on one side and I fell off the other, she came smashing straight through the raft!

就在这时，一艘汽船沿河而来。 我们点上灯笼，断定她会看见的。 我们能听到它砰砰地前进，但直到它靠近了我们才看得清楚。 她正瞄准我们。他们经常这样做，并试着看看在不接触的情况下他们能走多近。 然后飞行员伸出头来笑了笑，觉得自己很聪明。 好了，她来了，她似乎一点也没有偏离方向。 她身材高大，而且来得很匆忙，看上去像一片乌云，周围有成排的萤火虫。 有人对我们大喊大叫，叮当作响的铃声让引擎停下来，还有许多咒骂和汽笛声。 吉姆从一边落水，我从另一边掉下去，她径直从木筏上冲了过来！