10 The Call of the Wild

CHAPTER 10 The Call of the Wild One night Buck woke up suddenly and sniffed the air, his hair bristling. From the forest came a call that was different than before. It was a long, drawn-out howl. He sprang through the camp, where everyone was still asleep, and ran through the woods. As he moved closer to the cry, he went slowly and carefully until he came to an open place among the trees. There Buck saw a long, lean timber wolf, sitting on its hind legs, with its nose pointed to the sky. Buck made no noise, but the wolf stopped

第十章野性的呼唤一天晚上，巴克突然醒来，他嗅了嗅空气，头发竖起来。 从森林里传来一声不同于以往的叫声。 那是一声长长的嗥叫。 他穿过营地，跑过树林，那里的人都还在睡觉。 当他靠近哭声时，他慢慢地小心翼翼地走到树林中的一块空地上。 在那里，巴克看见了一只瘦长的狼，用后腿坐着，鼻子朝天。 巴克没有发出声音，但狼停了下来

howling and looked around. Buck walked into the open, half crouching, his body poised and ready to jump, tail straight and stiff. Buck wanted to show that he could be friendly, but the wolf ran away. Buck followed and easily caught up to him. The wolf whirled around, ready to fight. Buck did not attack. Instead, he circled around the wolf and tried to show that he was friendly. The wolf was suspicious and afraid. Buck was at least three times larger than the wolf, and the wolf's head barely reached Buck's shoulder. When he saw a chance, the wolf ran away and Buck chased him again. Buck always caught up to him, and he ran again, until he was tired. In the end Buck got what he wanted. The wolf, finding that he was not in danger, finally sniffed noses with him. They became friendly and played with each other in a nervous, shy way. After some time, the wolf

嚎叫着环顾四周。 巴克半蹲着走进空地，身体摆好姿势准备跳跃，尾巴笔直而僵硬。 巴克想表现出他的友好，但狼跑开了。 巴克跟着他，很容易就追上了他。 狼转过身来，准备战斗。 巴克没有进攻。相反，他围着狼转，试图表现出他的友好。 狼既怀疑又害怕。 巴克至少比狼大三倍，狼的头几乎够不到巴克的肩膀。 当他看到一个机会时，狼跑开了，巴克又追赶它。 巴克总是追上他，他又跑，直到累了为止。 最后巴克得到了他想要的。 狼发现自己没有危险，终于和他一起嗅了嗅鼻子。 他们变得很友好，用一种紧张、害羞的方式互相玩耍。 过了一会儿，狼来了

started off at an easy run. He wanted Buck to come along, and they ran side by side through the night, into the mountains. They ran for days, and Buck was happy. He knew he was finally answering the call, running next to his friend, who was like a brother to him. They stopped by a stream to drink, and then Buck remembered John Thornton. He sat down. The wolf started on, and then returned to him, sniffing noses and trying to encourage Buck to keep going. But Buck turned around and started slowly back. For an hour the wolf ran by his side, whining softly. Then he sat down, pointed his nose upward, and howled. It was a sad howl, and as Buck kept going, he heard it grow fainter until it was lost in the distance. John Thornton was eating dinner when Buck ran into camp and jumped on him, licking his face, biting his hand in their friendly way, while Thornton shook Buck

开始时很轻松。 他想让巴克跟他一起去，于是他们在夜里并肩跑进了山里。 他们跑了好几天，巴克很高兴。 他知道他终于接了电话，跑到他的朋友身边，他就像他的兄弟一样。 他们在一条小溪边停下来喝水，这时巴克想起了约翰·桑顿。 他坐了下来。狼开始往前走，然后又回到他身边，嗅着鼻子，试图鼓励巴克继续走下去。 但巴克转过身来，开始慢慢地往回走。 狼在他身边跑了一个小时，轻声哀鸣。 然后他坐了下来，鼻子向上翘，嚎叫起来。 这是一种悲伤的嚎叫，巴克继续往前走，他听到它越来越微弱，直到消失在远处。 约翰·桑顿正在吃晚饭，巴克跑进营地，扑向他，舔他的脸，友好地咬他的手，而桑顿则摇晃着巴克

back and forth and called him names. For two days and nights Buck never left camp, never let Thornton out of his sight. He followed him everywhere, watched him while he ate, saw him into his blankets at night and out of them in the morning. But after two days Buck began to feel the strange call in the forest stronger than ever. Buck's restlessness came back, and he could not stop thinking about the wolf and their run through the forest. Once again he took to wandering in the woods, but the wolf was not there. He began to go out at night, staying away from camp for days at a time. Once he crossed over the mountain and wandered for a week, looking for the wolf, hunting and eating as he traveled. He never seemed to get tired. He fished for salmon in a stream, and he even won a fight against a large black bear. It was a hard battle, and it made Buck

来来回回骂他。 整整两天两夜，巴克没有离开营地，也没有让桑顿离开他的视线。 他到哪儿都跟着他，吃东西时看着他，晚上看着他穿上毯子，早上看着他脱下毯子。 但两天后，巴克开始感到森林里奇怪的呼唤比以往任何时候都强烈。 巴克的不安又回来了，他不停地想着那只狼和他们在森林里奔跑的情景。 他又一次在树林里游荡，但是狼不在那里。 他开始在夜间外出，一次离开营地好几天。 有一次，他翻山越岭，徘徊了一个星期，寻找那只狼，边打猎边吃东西。 他似乎从不感到疲倦。 他在小溪里钓鲑鱼，他甚至赢了一只大黑熊。 这是一场艰苦的战斗，这使巴克

feel like a fighter again. Two days later, he hunted wolverines and caught two of them. He felt like the best hunter in the world, the strongest animal. He was proud, and it showed in the way he moved. Except for the brown color on his nose and above his eyes, and the white hair across his chest, he looked like a gigantic wolf, larger than the largest wolf in the world. Buck's father was a St. Bernard, so Buck inherited his size and weight from him, while he had inherited his shape from his mother, who was a shepherd. His nose was long like a wolf's, but it was larger than the nose on any wolf. His head was shaped like a wolf's head, but it was three times larger. He was as cunning as a wolf, and he was as smart as a shepherd and a St. Bernard. All this, plus the experience gained in the North, made him as strong as any animal that was in the wild. He could respond to sights and

感觉自己又像个斗士了。 两天后，他开始猎杀狼獾，并捕获了两只。 他觉得自己是世界上最好的猎人，最强壮的动物。 他很骄傲，从他走路的样子就能看出来。 除了鼻子和眼睛上方的棕色和胸前的白色毛发外，他看起来就像一只巨大的狼，比世界上最大的狼还要大。 巴克的父亲是一只圣伯纳犬，所以巴克的体型和体重遗传自他的父亲，而他的体型则遗传自他的牧羊母亲。 他的鼻子像狼一样长，但比任何狼的鼻子都大。 他的头形状像狼的头，但要大三倍。 他像狼一样狡猾，又像牧羊人和圣人一样聪明。 伯纳德。所有这些，再加上在北方获得的经验，使他和任何野生动物一样强壮。 他能对景象做出反应

sounds as fast as lightning. As quick as a husky dog could leap, he could leap twice as fast. He could see a movement, or hear a sound, and respond in less time than another dog needed just to see or hear something. His muscles were powerful, and they snapped like steel springs. "There has never been such a dog," said John Thornton one day, as he and his partners watched Buck marching out of camp. "After he was made, the mold was broke," said Pete. "By jingo! I think so myself," Hans agreed. They saw him marching out of camp, but they did not see what changed as soon as he was hidden in the forest. He stopped marching. He became a thing of the wild, creeping softly. He knew how to hide, to crawl on his belly like a snake, and, like a

听起来像闪电一样快。 哈士奇狗跳跃的速度是它的两倍。 他可以看到一个动作，听到一个声音，并在更短的时间内做出反应，而不是其他狗只需要看到或听到一些东西。 他的肌肉很强壮，像钢弹簧一样噼啪作响。 “从来没有过这样的狗，”一天，约翰·桑顿和他的伙伴们看着巴克走出营地时说。 “他被造出来之后，模具就被打破了，”皮特说。 “妈的!我自己也是这么想的。”汉斯同意了。 他们看到他走出营地，但他们没有看到他一躲进森林就发生了什么变化。 他停止了前进。他变成了一只野兽，轻轻地爬行着。 他知道如何躲藏，像蛇一样匍匐爬行，又像