5 Rivals

CHAPTER 5 Rivals From then on it was war between the two dogs. Spitz, as lead dog and master of the team, worried that this strange southern dog would take his place. And Buck certainly was strange to him. Spitz had known many southern dogs, and none of them had been strong in the camp or on the trail. They were all too soft. They could not take the hard work, the frost, and the starvation. Buck was different. He could match the huskies in

从那时起，两条狗就开始了战争。 斯皮兹作为领队狗和领队狗，担心这只奇怪的南方狗会取代他的位置。 巴克对他来说当然是陌生的。 斯皮兹认识很多南方的狗，但它们在营地和小路上都不强壮。 他们都太软弱了。他们无法忍受艰苦的工作、霜冻和饥饿。 巴克则不同。他可以和哈士奇赛跑

strength, savagery, and cunning. He was a great dog, and what made him more dangerous was that his early experience with the man in the red sweater had taught him to save up his anger and to be patient. He was smart, and he could wait in a way that made him as sneaky as the wildest dogs. All the dogs knew that Buck and Spitz would fight to be the leader of the team. Buck wanted it. He felt a special kind of pride, which all of the dogs that worked on the trail also felt. It was pride that made them work so hard and not want to give up. This pride changed Dave and Solleks every morning from mean and sullen dogs into eager, ambitious ones. Pride kept them going every day. It made Spitz the leader and also made him punish any of the dogs that could not keep up or tried to get out of hard work. It was this pride that made him afraid of Buck.

力量，野蛮和狡猾。 它是一条伟大的狗，使它更危险的是，它早期与那个穿红毛衣的人的经历教会了它要克制自己的愤怒，要有耐心。 他很聪明，他能等得像野狗一样鬼鬼祟祟。 所有的狗都知道巴克和斯皮兹会为成为领队而争斗。 巴克想要它。他感到一种特殊的骄傲，所有在这条路上工作的狗也都有这种感觉。 是自豪感使他们如此努力工作，不愿放弃。 这种骄傲使戴夫和索拉克斯每天早上都从卑鄙、阴沉的狗变成了渴望、雄心勃勃的狗。 骄傲使他们每天都坚持下去。 它让斯皮兹成为了领导者，也让他惩罚任何跟不上或试图逃避艰苦工作的狗。 正是这种骄傲使他害怕巴克。

Buck threatened Spitz's leadership all the time. He kept Spitz from punishing the dogs who did not work hard enough. One night there was a heavy snowfall, and in the morning Pike, who never liked to work hard, did not appear. He was hidden in his nest under a foot of snow. Francois called him and searched for him. Spitz was wild with anger. He raged through the camp, smelling and digging everywhere, and snarling so loudly that Pike heard and shivered in his hiding place. But when Spitz finally found him and tried to punish him, Buck jumped in between them, knocking Spitz backward. Pike had been shaking with fear, but when he saw this happen, he became happy and jumped on Spitz. Buck no longer remembered what it meant to fight fairly, and so he also jumped on Spitz. Francois broke them up quickly, and while he punished Buck, Spitz punished

巴克一直威胁着斯皮兹的领导权。 他不让斯皮兹惩罚那些工作不够努力的狗。 一天晚上下了一场大雪，第二天早上，从不喜欢努力工作的派克没有出现。 他躲在一英尺厚的雪下的窝里。 弗朗索瓦斯叫他，找他。 斯皮兹气得发狂。 他怒吼着穿过营地，到处嗅嗅，到处挖掘，咆哮的声音如此之大，以至于派克听到了，躲在他的藏身之处瑟瑟发抖。 但当斯皮兹终于找到他并试图惩罚他时，巴克跳到他们中间，把斯皮兹撞倒了。 派克一直吓得发抖，但当他看到这一幕时，他高兴地跳到斯皮兹身上。 巴克不再记得什么是公平的战斗，所以他也扑向斯皮兹。 弗朗索瓦斯迅速拆散了他们，他惩罚巴克，斯皮兹惩罚他

Pike. As they moved closer and closer to Dawson, Buck continued to come between Spitz and the other dogs. But Buck was smart about it. He waited until Francois was not around. Many of the other dogs also began to be unruly, except for Dave and Sol-leks. Everything was going wrong. The dogs were always fighting and getting in trouble; Buck was always the cause, and he kept Francois very busy. Francois knew that Buck and Spitz would have a terrible fight one day, and whenever he heard trouble among the dogs, he thought Buck and Spitz were at it again. But the chance never came, and the team pulled into Dawson one dreary afternoon with the great fight still to come. Here were many men and countless dogs, and they were all hard at work. All day the dogs ran up and down the main street in long teams, pulling sleds, and at night he could hear the jingling

派克。当他们越来越接近道森时，巴克继续挡在斯皮兹和其他狗之间。 但巴克很聪明。 他一直等到弗朗索瓦斯不在身边。 许多其他的狗也开始变得不守规矩，除了戴夫和索拉克斯。 一切都出了问题。 狗总是打架，惹麻烦；巴克总是罪魁祸首，他让弗朗索瓦斯忙得不可开交。 弗朗索瓦斯知道巴克和斯皮兹总有一天会大打一架，每当他听到狗之间有麻烦的时候，他就认为巴克和斯皮兹又在打架了。 但是机会一直没有到来，在一个沉闷的下午，队伍开进了道桑，而伟大的战斗还在后面。 这里有许多人和无数的狗，他们都在努力工作。 一整天，狗排成长长的队伍，拉着雪橇在大街上跑来跑去，到了晚上，他还能听到叮当声

bells on their collars as they ran. They hauled logs for cabins and firewood up to the mines. Dogs did all the work that horses did back home in the Santa Clara Valley, at Judge Miller's place. Here and there, Buck met other southern dogs, but most of them were huskies, and had been bred for this kind of work. Every night at nine, then at twelve, and again at three, they sang together. It was a weird and eerie chant, and Buck loved joining them. With the northern lights overhead, which looked like flames, the stars twinkling, and the land frozen under the snow, this song of the huskies sounded very sad, with long cries and half sobs. It was an old song, one of the first songs that the first huskies ever sang, so many years ago. When Buck sang with them, he felt the fear and mystery of the cold and dark. Seven days after they pulled into Dawson,

他们跑的时候项圈上挂着铃铛。 他们把做木屋的原木和柴火拖到矿区。 在圣克拉拉山谷，在米勒法官的家里，马所做的一切工作，狗都做了。 巴克不时地遇到其他南方的狗，但大多数都是哈士奇，它们就是为干这种活而养的。 每天晚上9点，然后是12点，然后是3点，他们一起唱歌。 这是一种奇怪而怪异的吟唱，巴克喜欢加入他们。 北极光在头顶上闪烁，看起来像火焰，星星闪烁，土地在雪下冻结，哈士奇的这首歌听起来很悲伤，伴随着长时间的哭泣和半呜咽。 这是一首老歌，是许多年前第一批哈士奇唱的第一首歌之一。 当巴克和他们一起唱歌时，他感到了寒冷和黑暗的恐惧和神秘。 在他们驶入道森七天后，

they left again. This time they were on the Yukon Trail headed back to Dyea and Salt Water, which was where they had started. Perrault was carrying letters that were even more important than the ones he had brought in. He felt as proud of his work as the dogs did, and he decided they were going to make the trip in record time. He had many reasons to think they could do it. The week's rest had helped the dogs to recover, and they were filled with energy. The trail that had been so soft on the way here was now packed down hard from the teams that had come after them. The Northwest police had also agreed to leave food and supplies for the men and dogs at two or three places along the way, and now this team was traveling with a lighter load than on their way up. They traveled fifty miles on the first day, and the second day saw them speeding up

他们又走了。这一次，他们在育空小径上返回染料和盐水，这是他们开始的地方。 佩诺特带来的信比他带来的信更重要。 他和狗狗们一样为自己的工作感到自豪，他决定他们要在创纪录的时间内完成这次旅行。 他有很多理由相信他们能做到。 一周的休息帮助狗狗们恢复了健康，它们充满了活力。 来这里的路上本来是很软的，现在被后面的队伍挤得很紧。 西北警察也同意在沿途的两三个地方为人和狗留下食物和补给，现在这支队伍的负担比他们上山时轻了。 第一天他们走了五十英里，第二天他们加快了速度