评论
打印
Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had left this place;[qh]
我们离开那个地方后，也有好几次不得不上岸取水。[qh]
and once in particular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty high;[qh]
特别有一次，在大清早，我们来到一个小岬角抛了锚。[qh]
and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther in.[qh]
这时正好涨潮，我们想等潮水上来后再往里驶。[qh]
Xury, whose eyes were more about him than it seems mine were, calls softly to me, and tells me that we had best go farther off the shore;[qh]
佐立的眼睛比我尖，他向我低声叫唤，要我把船驶离岸远一点。[qh]
For, says he, look, yonder lies a dreadful monster on the side of that hillock, fast asleep.[qh]
他说，"看那儿，一个可怕的怪物正在小山下睡觉呢！"[qh]
I looked where he pointed, and saw a dreadful monster indeed, for it was a terrible, great lion that lay on the side of the shore,[qh]
我朝他手所指的方向看了一下，果然看到一个可怕的怪物，原来那是一头巨狮，[qh]
under the shade of a piece of the hill that hung as it were a little over him.[qh]
正躺在一片山影下熟睡呢！[qh]
Xury, says I, you shall on shore and kill him.[qh]
我说："佐立，你上岸去把它打死吧。"[qh]
Xury, looked frighted, and said, Me kill![qh]
佐立大吃一惊，说："我？我去把它打死？[qh]
he eat me at one mouth! - one mouthful he meant.[qh]
它一口就把我吃掉了。"[qh]
However, I said no more to the boy,[qh]
我就不再对这孩子说什么了，[qh]
but bade him lie still, and I took our biggest gun, which was almost musket-bore,[qh]
并叫他乖乖呆在那儿。我自己拿起最大的一支枪，[qh]
and loaded it with a good charge of powder, and with two slugs, and laid it down;[qh]
装了大量的火药，又装了两颗大子弹，放在一旁，[qh]
then I loaded another gun with two bullets;[qh]
然后又拿起第二支枪，装了两颗子弹，[qh]
and the third (for we had three pieces) I loaded with five smaller bullets.[qh]
再把第三支枪装了五颗小子弹。[qh]
I took the best aim I could with the first piece to have shot him in the head,[qh]
我拿起第一支大枪，尽力瞄准，对着那狮子的头开了一枪。[qh]
but he lay so with his leg raised a little above his nose, that the slugs hit his leg about the knee and broke the bone.[qh]
但那狮子躺着时，前腿稍稍往上抬起，挡住了鼻子，因此子弹正好打在它膝盖上，把腿骨打断了。[qh]
He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again;[qh]
狮子一惊，狂吼而起，但发觉一腿已断，复又跌倒在地，[qh]
and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard.[qh]
然后用三条腿站立起来，发出刺耳的吼叫声。[qh]
I was a little surprised that I had not hit him on the head;[qh]
我见自己没有打中狮子的头部，心里不由暗暗吃惊，[qh]
however, I took up the second piece immediately, and though he began to move off, fired again, and shot him in the head,[qh]
这时，那头狮子似乎想走开，我急忙拿起第二支枪，对准它的头部又开了一枪，[qh]
and had the pleasure to see him drop and make but little noise, but lie struggling for life.[qh]
只见它颓然倒下，轻轻地吼了一声，便在那儿拼命挣扎。[qh]
Then Xury took heart, and would have me let him go on shore.[qh]
这时佐立胆子大了，要求我让他上岸。[qh]
