15 Phileas Fogg Finds a Way to Liverpool

CHAPTER 15 Phileas Fogg Finds a Way to Liverpool The next day, Phileas left the hotel by himself. He intended to find a ship to take them to Liverpool right away. It was now December 12. He had just nine days,

第十五章斐利亚福克找到了去利物浦的路第二天，斐利亚独自离开了旅馆。 他打算马上找一艘船把他们送到利物浦。 现在是12月12日。他只有九天的时间，

thirteen hours, and forty-five minutes to go. He walked up and down the riverside, but he could find no boat to take him. He had almost given up all hope when he saw a small trading ship set apart from the rest. The chimney on top of the boat was puffing steam. It was about to leave. Phileas hailed a boat to take him out to the ship. Soon he found himself on board the Henrietta. The captain was on deck. He was fifty years old, with large round eyes, bright red hair, and a copper beard. His name was Andrew Speedy. "Are you about to set off to sea?" Phileas asked. "Yes. We leave for Bordeaux in an hour," Captain Speedy answered. "Have you any passengers?" "No passengers," Captain Speedy said. "We never take passengers. They get in the way." "Is your ship very fast?"

还剩13小时45分钟。 他在河边走来走去，但找不到船来载他。 当他看到一艘小商船与其他商船分开时，他几乎放弃了所有的希望。 船顶上的烟囱正在冒出蒸汽。 它正要离开。菲利亚招呼一艘船把他送到船上。 不久，他发现自己登上了亨丽埃塔号。 船长在甲板上。他五十岁了，长着一双圆圆的大眼睛，一头鲜红的头发，蓄着一把铜色的胡子。 他的名字叫安德鲁·斯皮蒂。 “你要出海吗？”Phileas问道。 “是的。“我们一小时后动身去波尔多，”斯皮蒂船长回答。 “你有乘客吗？”“没有乘客，”斯皮蒂船长说。 “我们从不搭载乘客。 他们碍事。”“你的船很快吗？”

"Oh, she's fast all right. As fast as they come," said the captain. "Will you take me to Liverpool? Well, myself and three other passengers," Phileas asked. "No." "No?" "No. I said we're going to Bordeaux, so we're going to Bordeaux," Captain Speedy insisted. Phileas tried everything. He tried to buy the boat. He tried to pay the captain to take him, but all offers were refused. Until now, he had been able to buy his way around the world. This time money wasn't the answer. "Will you take us to Bordeaux then, for two thousand dollars apiece?" Phileas asked. Captain Speedy scratched his head. "There are four of you?" "Correct," Phileas answered. "Are you all ready to go?" Phileas nodded.

“哦，她跑得还不错。 他们来的越快越好。”船长说。 “你能带我去利物浦吗？” “嗯，我和另外三位乘客。”菲利亚问。 “没有。”“没有吗?”“没有。我说我们要去波尔多，那我们就去波尔多，”斯皮蒂船长坚持说。 菲利斯什么都试过了。他想买那条船。 他试图付钱给船长让他带走他，但所有的提议都被拒绝了。 直到现在，他还能花钱周游世界。 这一次，钱不是答案。 “那么你愿意带我们去波尔多吗，每人两千美元？”Phileas问道。 斯皮蒂船长挠了挠头。 “你们有四个人？”“对，”菲利亚回答。 “你们都准备好出发了吗？”Phileas点点头。

"Fine," the captain continued. "We set off at nine. If you're here, we'll take you to Bordeaux with us." This left Phileas just half an hour to race back to the hotel, gather up Aouda, Passepartout, and Fix, and then get back to the Henrietta. And Phileas Fogg never even showed an ounce of nerves! All four travelers were back on board with seconds to spare. Passepartout felt a bit uneasy knowing how much money his monsieur was spending to make it back to London in time to win the bet. As for Fix, every time Phileas paid for something, he saw his reward fading away. After all, the money he was spending belonged to the bank. The more money the robber spent, the less he had to give back to the bank. And the less the bank recovered, the less his own reward would be. Those thoughts did not do much for his already low spirits.

“很好，”船长继续说。 “我们九点钟出发。如果你在这里，我们就带你一起去波尔多。” 菲利亚只有半个小时的时间赶回旅馆，把艾娥达夫人、路路通和费克斯叫到一起，然后回到亨丽埃塔号上去。 而斐利亚·福克一点也不紧张！四名乘客都回到了飞机上，还有几秒钟的时间。 路路通知道他的先生要花那么多钱才能及时赶回伦敦，赢得赌局，心里有点不放心。 至于费克斯，每次菲利亚付了钱，他就看见他的奖赏渐渐消失了。 毕竟他花的钱是属于银行的。 抢劫犯花的钱越多，他要还给银行的就越少。 银行恢复得越少，他自己的回报也就越少。 这些想法对他本来就很低落的情绪没有多大帮助。

By noon the next day, the Henrietta was sailing along nicely. Phileas Fogg stood on the bridge and looked out across the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, Captain Speedy had locked himself away in his cabin. He was very unhappy indeed. Phileas wanted to go to Liverpool and would stop at nothing to get there. He had told his story to the entire crew. Once they knew how far he had already come, they decided to help him. They abandoned the captain's orders and put the ship on a new course—one bound for Liverpool. The voyage went well for the first few days. They burned the coal and kept the Henrietta going at full steam. They had passed Newfoundland and were now out in the open seas. Passepartout had been keeping the sailors company by performing for them. His good humor put everyone in a happy mood.

到第二天中午，亨利埃塔号顺利地航行着。 斐利亚·福克站在桥上眺望大西洋。 与此同时，斯皮蒂船长把自己锁在船舱里。 他确实很不高兴。 菲利亚想去利物浦，为了到那里不惜一切代价。 他把自己的经历告诉了全体船员。 一旦他们知道他已经走了这么远，他们决定帮助他。 他们放弃了船长的命令，把船开到一条开往利物浦的新航线上。 开始的几天航行很顺利。 他们烧了煤，让亨丽埃塔号全速前进。 他们已经经过了纽芬兰岛，现在到了公海上。 路路通一直给水手们表演，陪伴着他们。 他的幽默使每个人都心情愉快。

Aouda spent much of her time on deck with Phileas trying to calm her down. She was truly worried about how everything would turn out. Suddenly the weather turned. The Atlantic Ocean was a very dangerous place to be in the winter. There were awful storms and wicked waves. A boat could be blown off course or overturned in an instant. Instead of sailing, they used only the engine. The coal was the only energy pushing them forward. On December 16, the ship's engineer came on deck to tell Phileas that they were almost out of coal. "Let me think about it for a minute," Phileas said to the man. The two stood in silence while he considered what to do next. "Keep the engines at full steam," he said. "I've got a solution. Passepartout!" The butler jumped up from a lower deck and stood before him. "Please ask the captain

艾娥达夫人大部分时间都在甲板上陪着菲利斯，试图使她平静下来。 她真的很担心事情的结果。 天气突然变了。 大西洋在冬天是一个非常危险的地方。 有可怕的风暴和凶恶的海浪。 一艘船可能在瞬间被吹离航线或倾覆。 他们不用帆船，只用发动机。 煤是推动他们前进的唯一能源。 12月16日，船上的工程师来到甲板上告诉菲利斯，他们的煤快用完了。 “让我考虑一下，”菲利亚对那个人说。 两人默默地站着，他在考虑下一步该怎么办。 “保持引擎全速运转，”他说。 “我有一个解决办法。路路通!”管家从下层甲板上跳起来，站在他面前。 “请问船长