But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; [qh]

有一天，我偶然来到赫尔市。当时，我还没有私自出走的念头。[qh]

but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, [qh]

但在那里，我碰到了一个朋友。他说他将乘他父亲的船去伦敦，[qh]

and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, [qh]

并怂恿我与他们一起去。他用水手们常用的诱人航海的办法对我说，我不必付船费。[qh]

I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; [qh]

这时，我既不同父母商量，也不给他们捎个话，[qh]

but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, [qh]

我想我走了以后他们迟早会听到消息的。同时，我既不向上帝祈祷，也没有要父亲为我祝福，甚至都不考虑当时的情况和将来的后果，就登上了一艘开往伦敦的船。[qh]

and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for London. [qh]

时间是一六五一年九月一日。谁知道这是一个恶时辰啊！[qh]

Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. [qh]

我相信，没有一个外出冒险的年轻人会像我这样一出门就倒霉，一倒霉就这么久久难以摆脱。[qh]

The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; [qh]

我们的船一驶出恒比尔河就刮起了大风，风助浪势，煞是吓人。[qh]

and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind. [qh]

因为我第一次出海，人感到难过得要命，心里又怕得要死。[qh]

I began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done, [qh]

这时，我开始对我的所作所为感到后悔了。[qh]

and how justly I was overtaken by the judgment of Heaven for my wicked leaving my father's house, and abandoning my duty. [qh]

我这个不孝之子，背弃父母，不尽天职，老天就这么快惩罚我了，真是天公地道。[qh]

All the good counsels of my parents, my father's tears and my mother's entreaties, came now fresh into my mind; [qh]

这时，我父母的忠告，父亲的眼泪和母亲的祈求，都涌进了我的脑海。[qh]

and my conscience, which was not yet come to the pitch of hardness to which it has since, reproached me with the contempt of advice, [qh]

我良心终究尚未丧尽，不禁谴责起自己来：我不应该不听别人的忠告，[qh]

and the breach of my duty to God and my father. [qh]

背弃对上帝和父亲的天职。[qh]

All this while the storm increased, and the sea went very high, though nothing like what I have seen many times since; no, nor what I saw a few days after; [qh]

这时风暴越刮越猛，海面汹涌澎湃，波浪滔天。我以前从未见过这种情景。但比起我后来多次见到过的咆哮的大海，那真是小巫见大巫了；[qh]

but it was enough to affect me then, who was but a young sailor, and had never known anything of the matter. [qh]

就是与我过几天后见到的情景，也不能相比。可是，在当时，对我这个初次航海的年轻人来说，足已令我胆颤心惊了，因为我对航海的事一无所知。[qh]

I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, [qh]

我感到，海恒比尔河，又作亨伯河，发源于英格兰中部，流入北海。浪随时会将我们吞没。每次我们的船跌入浪涡时，[qh]

in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; [qh]

我想我们会随时倾覆沉入海底再也浮不起来了。[qh]