13 A Second Chance to Join the War

CHAPTER 13 A Second Chance to Join the War All of a sudden Henry became aware that the roar of the battle was growing louder. Great brown clouds floated past him, and the noise was getting closer. As he reached the top of a hill, he saw that the road was now crowded with wagons, teams, and men. Fear was moving everyone along. Henry felt comforted by this sight. They were all fleeing. Perhaps, then, he wasn't so bad after all. He sat by the road and watched everyone pass. They ran like young, uncomfortable animals, and he found some

第十三章第二次参战的机会突然间，亨利意识到战斗的吼声越来越大了。 大片棕色的云从他身边飘过，那声音越来越近了。 当他到达山顶时，他看到路上挤满了马车、车队和人。 恐惧驱使着每个人前进。 看到这一幕，亨利感到宽慰。 他们都在逃跑。那么，也许他并没有那么坏。 他坐在路边，看着每个人都经过。 它们像幼小的、令人不安的动物一样奔跑着，他找到了一些

pleasure in watching this wild march. Soon a group of infantry soldiers appeared in the road. They came on swiftly and moved around everything that was in the way. These soldiers were going forward into the heart of the battle. They were ready to face the eager rush of the enemy. Their faces were serious, and Henry could tell that they felt important. As Henry looked at them, the weight of his sadness returned to him. He felt as if he was watching a line of soldiers who had been specially chosen to be heroes. He could never be like them. He could have cried right then. Henry wished he could be a hero, and for a moment he was about to get up and join them on their way to the fight. Then the difficulties of his situation began to drag at him and he hesitated. He had no rifle, but there were a lot of those around. He could always pick one up. Also, he thought, it would be hard to find his

很高兴看到这狂野的游行。 不久，一群步兵出现在路上。 他们迅速前进，绕过一切挡道的东西。 这些士兵正向战斗的中心挺进。 他们已准备好面对敌人的猛烈进攻。 他们的表情很严肃，亨利看得出他们觉得自己很重要。 当亨利看着他们时，他的悲伤又回到了他的心头。 他觉得自己仿佛在看着一排被特别挑选出来当英雄的士兵。 他永远不会像他们那样。 他当时本可以哭的。 亨利真希望自己能成为一名英雄，有那么一刻，他想站起来加入他们的战斗。 后来，处境的困难开始拖着他的后腿，他犹豫了。 他没有步枪，但周围有很多枪。 他总能捡到一个。 而且，他想，要找到他的也很难

own troop again. But then again, he could fight with any troop. He started forward slowly, struggling with his doubts. Eventually Henry's objections beat out his courage. In the end, he wasn't very upset about his decision. As he thought about it, he decided that the problems were pretty big. And now, on top of everything else, new problems began to bother him. He had a horrible thirst. His face was so dry that he thought the skin would crack. Each bone in his body had an ache in it, and his feet were sore. His stomach hurt from hunger, and he was having trouble seeing clearly. Henry realized he would never become a hero. He groaned from sadness and went wandering away. He stayed close to the battle. He had a great desire to see the fighting and get news. He wanted to know who was winning. It occurred to Henry that if his army lost, it

又是自己的部队。但话说回来，他可以和任何军队作战。 他慢慢地往前走，与自己的疑虑作斗争。 最终亨利的反对战胜了他的勇气。 最后，他对自己的决定并不是很失望。 他想了想，觉得问题相当大。 现在，在所有的事情之上，新的问题开始困扰他。 他口渴得厉害。他的脸太干了，他觉得皮肤都要裂开了。 他身上每根骨头都疼痛，他的脚也发痛。 他饿得肚子疼，看不清东西。 亨利意识到他永远也成不了英雄。 他悲伤地呻吟着走开了。 他离战斗很近。 他非常想看一看打斗场面，打听一下消息。 他想知道谁赢了。 亨利突然想到，如果他的军队失败了

might mean good things for him. Many brave men, he thought, would have to run if the army was beaten by the enemy. He would just look like another one of those men. No one would know that he had run earlier. If they lost, it would be a kind of proof that he had done the right thing by running. It would show that he had been able to see what would happen, as if he could see the future. That kind of proof was very important to Henry. He couldn't accept the idea that he had done something shameful. But if his army was to win, Henry would be in trouble. He knew it was awful to think these things, and he called himself a villain just for thinking about them. Then another thought came to him. True, a defeat of his army was a way for him to escape from what he had done, but he decided that it was useless to think of such a possibility. He knew his army could never be

也许对他来说是好事。 他想，如果军队被敌人打败，许多勇敢的人将不得不逃跑。 他看起来就像那些人中的另一个。 没有人会知道他早些时候跑过。 如果他们输了，这将是一种证明，证明他参选是正确的。 这表明他能够预见将要发生的事情，就好像他能预见未来一样。 这种证据对亨利来说非常重要。 他不能接受自己做了可耻的事。 但如果他的军队赢了，亨利就有麻烦了。 他知道想到这些事情是多么可怕，仅仅因为想到这些，他就称自己为恶棍。 接着，他又有了一个想法。 诚然，他的军队被打败是他逃避他所做的事情的一种方法，但他认为考虑这种可能性是没有用的。 他知道他的军队永远不可能

beaten. Henry tried to think of a good story to tell the men in his troop. He thought up many ideas, but threw each one away as too weak and unbelievable. He imagined the whole troop making fun of him for running from the fight. "Where's Henry Fleming?" they would ask. "He ran, didn't he? Oh, my!" Henry imagined that he would see people staring at him with hatred wherever he went in camp. Everyone would laugh meanly at him and he would become a joke.

殴打。亨利试图想出一个好故事讲给他部队里的人听。 他想出了许多主意，但每一个都因太软弱和难以置信而被抛弃了。 他想象着整个部队都在嘲笑他从战斗中逃跑。 “亨利·弗莱明在哪儿？”他们会问。 “他跑了，是不是？”哦,我的天!”亨利想象着，无论他在营地里走到哪里，都会看到人们用仇恨的目光盯着他。 每个人都会刻薄地嘲笑他，他会成为一个笑话。