17 How My Sea Adventure Began

CHAPTER 17 How My Sea Adventure Began The mutineers did not come back that day. They had had their fill of fighting. As for us, Hunter never did recover and died that night of his injuries. Captain Smollett was wounded badly but not permanently, the shot having gone through his shoulder and nicked his lung. He would survive, but was under the doctor's orders not to move. Just after noon, the coast being clear, the doctor strapped on his pistols and headed silently out to his meeting with Ben. Gray

第十七章我的海上冒险是怎样开始的那天，反叛者没有回来。 他们已经打够了。 至于我们，亨特一直没有康复，并在当晚因伤去世。 斯莫列特船长受了重伤，但不是永久性的，子弹穿透了他的肩膀，划破了他的肺部。 他可以活下来，但医生嘱咐他不要动。 刚过中午，天气晴朗，医生系好手枪，默默地去见本。 灰色的

thought him insane to do so under such conditions. In the meantime, I sat thinking it unfair that I should just sit and wait. I soon snuck out, filled my pockets with biscuits, and decided on my own mission. I would go to find, for certain, if Ben's boat existed and was in good shape. I armed myself with pistols and powder and slipped out. It was foolish to do so, but I was only a boy. As it turned out, it helped save us all. I headed quickly along the shore to the white rock and soon saw the ship rocking in the waves at the same place, the Jolly Roger still flying. I also saw Silver and the pirate, last seen coming over the fence, pulling back to shore from the boat. And I heard the squawking laughter of his parrot in the wind. Soon they were coming my way, and I hurried on toward the white rock.

我觉得他在这种情况下这么做是疯了。 与此同时，我坐在那里，觉得坐着等不公平。 我很快溜了出去，口袋里装满了饼干，决定了我自己的任务。 我要去确认一下，本的船是否存在，是否完好无损。 我拿上手枪和火药，溜了出去。 这样做是愚蠢的，但我只是个孩子。 事实证明，它拯救了我们所有人。 我沿着海岸迅速驶向白色的岩石，很快就看到船在同样的地方在波浪中摇晃，Jolly Roger还在飘扬。 我还看见西尔弗和那个海盗（上次有人看见他是翻过篱笆来的）从船上划回岸边。 我听到他的鹦鹉在风中发出刺耳的笑声。 不久他们就朝我这边走过来了，我急忙朝那块白色的岩石走去。

Below it was the boat, well hidden. It was the simplest, lightest, most basic craft possible. It looked as if it were made by men hundreds of years ago. But it was light and it would float. I soon had another notion that I could not get rid of. I thought I would take the boat out under cover of night to the Hispaniola. Then I would cut the ship loose and let it go ashore in the night in some other cove. I thought this would stop our pirates from taking to the seas to kill again. And, I thought, as careless and sloppy as they were, it should be easy to do. I waited until the dark and fog had set in and ate my biscuit. Then I carried my little boat to the water. In the dark, I saw that there were only two lights. One was the fire of the defeated pirates spread out on the shore. The other was the Hispaniola. I waded out, set my boat in the water, and made for

船就在它下面，藏得很好。 这是最简单、最轻、最基本的飞机。 它看起来好像是几百年前由人类制造的。 但它很轻，可以漂浮。 我很快又有了一个无法摆脱的念头。 我想趁着夜色把船开到伊斯帕尼奥拉号上去。 然后我就把船松开，让它在夜里到别的海湾靠岸。 我以为这能阻止我们的海盗再次出海杀人。 而且，我想，尽管他们很粗心大意，但这应该很容易做到。 我一直等到天黑和大雾降临，才吃了我的饼干。 然后我把我的小船带到水里。 在黑暗中，我看到只有两盏灯。 一个是被击败的海盗在海岸上散布的火焰。 另一艘是伊斯班袅拉号。 我涉水上岸，把小船放到水里，朝对岸划去

the ship. My new boat and I soon made it out into the surf and quickly found our way up close to the Hispaniola. It took some time to get used to, but it was a fairly solid boat and light in the water. Soon enough, I had laid hold of the rope that anchored the ship, called the hawser. It was tight and taut and I knew that with one cut, the entire Hispaniola would go humming along in the tide. I knew also that the taut hawser could snap and would kill me with its force if I let it. So I began to cut it slowly, fiber by fiber. Suddenly, as I finished cutting the final threads, it slipped under the water. I had been hearing loud voices from the

这艘船。我和我的新船很快就驶出了海面，很快就找到了伊斯帕尼奥拉号附近的路。 我花了一段时间才适应，但这是一艘相当坚固的船，在水中很轻。 很快，我就抓住了那根固定船的绳子，叫做锚索。 它又紧又紧，我知道只要一砍，整个伊斯班袅拉号就会在潮水中随波逐流。 我也知道，如果我任其发展，那绷紧的锚索可能会折断，它的力量会杀死我。 所以我开始慢慢地，一根一根地剪。 突然，当我剪完最后几根线时，它滑到水里去了。 我一直听到从

cabin and now realized that there was a fight on board and the angry voices were getting louder. I knew it was Israel Hands and another, the pirate with the blade in his teeth who had tried to scale the fence. I heard them call each other terrible names and then it got quiet for a moment. I could also hear the voices of the mutineers on shore and could hear songs being croaked out in raspy voices. At last, a breeze came up and the ship moved sideways and began to draw away and I was suddenly caught up in the wake of the big boat. I thought I might be smashed, but somehow I was not. I now decided to pull myself up for a look into the cabin and saw the two men wrestling madly. They each had the other by the throat. I ducked down quickly and shut my eyes tight. I heard more singing coming from the shore—

这时他意识到飞机上发生了打斗，愤怒的声音越来越大。 我知道那是伊斯莱尔·汉兹和另一个人，那个牙齿上咬着刀的海盗，他试图爬过栅栏。 我听到他们互相恶语谩骂，然后安静了一会儿。 我还能听到岸上反叛者的说话声，还能听到有人沙哑地唱着歌。 最后，起了一阵微风，船向侧面移动，开始划开，我突然被大船的尾迹缠住了。 我以为我可能会被撞碎，但不知何故，我没有。 这时我决定爬上去往船舱里看一看，看到那两个人在疯狂地扭打。 他们互相掐着对方的喉咙。 我迅速蹲下身子，紧紧地闭上了眼睛。 我听到岸上传来更多的歌声

"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the Devil had done for the rest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" Suddenly, I felt that the boat had increased in speed and opened my eyes to see that we had sped across the shore. The campfire was right behind me. We had been set on a new course and were heading out to sea. I could see the ship was moving on a sideways course, and the sailors inside knew they were in real danger and had stopped fighting. They could tell disaster was afoot.

“十五个人躺在死人的胸膛上——嗬嗬嗬，还有一瓶朗姆酒！”剩下的都是酒和魔鬼干的——哟——嗬——嗬，再来一瓶朗姆酒！”突然，我觉得船加快了速度，睁开眼睛，看到我们已经快速地过了岸。 营火就在我身后。 我们已经走上了一条新的航线，正驶向大海。 我可以看到船在向一侧移动，船上的水手知道他们处于真正的危险之中，于是停止了战斗。 他们能感觉到灾难即将来临。