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My thoughts were now wholly employed about securing myself against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts,[qh]
当时，我的思想完全集中在如何保护自己，防备野人或野兽的袭击，[qh]
if any were in the island;[qh]
假如岛上有野人或野兽的话。[qh]
and I had many thoughts of the method how to do this,[qh]
我想了许多办法，[qh]
and what kind of dwelling to make - whether I should make me a cave in the earth, or a tent upon the earth;[qh]
考虑造什么样的住所：是在地上掘个洞呢，还是搭个帐篷。[qh]
and, in short, I resolved upon both;[qh]
最后，我决定两样都要。[qh]
the manner and description of which, it may not be improper to give an account of.[qh]
至于建成什么样子，怎样去做，不妨在这里详细谈谈。[qh]
I soon found the place I was in was not fit for my settlement,[qh]
首先，我感到目前居住的地方不太合适。[qh]
because it was upon a low, moorish ground, near the sea,[qh]
一则因离海太近，地势低湿，[qh]
and I believed it would not be wholesome, and more particularly because there was no fresh water near it;[qh]
不大卫生；二则附近没有淡水。[qh]
so I resolved to find a more healthy and more convenient spot of ground.[qh]
我得找一个比较卫生，比较方便的地方建造自己的住所。[qh]
I consulted several things in my situation, which I found would he proper for me:[qh]
我根据自己的情况，拟定了选择住所的几个条件：[qh]
1st, health and fresh water, I just now mentioned;[qh]
必须如我上面所说的，要卫生，要有淡水；[qh]
2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun;[qh]
要能遮荫；[qh]
3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether man or beast;[qh]
要能避免猛兽或人类的突然袭击；[qh]
4thly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight,[qh]
要能看到大海，万一上帝让什么船只经过，[qh]
I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.[qh]
我就不至于失去脱险的机会，因为我始终存有一线希望，迟早能摆脱目前的困境。[qh]
In search of a place proper for this,[qh]
我按上述条件去寻找一个合适的地点，[qh]
I found a little plain on the side of a rising hill, whose front towards this little plain was steep as a house-side,[qh]
发现在一个小山坡旁，有一片平地。小山靠平地的一边又陡又直，像一堵墙，[qh]
so that nothing could come down upon me from the top.[qh]
不论人或野兽都无法从上面下来袭击我。[qh]
On the one side of the rock there was a hollow place,[qh]
在山岩上，有一块凹进去的地方，[qh]
worn a little way in, like the entrance or door of a cave but there was not really any cave or way into the rock at all.[qh]
看上去好像是一个山洞的进口，但实际上里面并没有山洞。[qh]
On the flat of the green, just before this hollow place, I resolved to pitch my tent.[qh]
在这山岩凹进去的地方，前面是一片平坦的草地，我决定就在此搭个帐篷。[qh]
This plain was not above a hundred yards broad, and about twice as long, and lay like a green before my door;[qh]
这块平地宽不过一百码，长不到二百码。若把住所搭好，这块平坦的草地犹如一块草皮，[qh]
and, at the end of it, descended irregularly every way down into the low ground by the seaside.[qh]
从门前起伏连绵向外伸展形成一个缓坡，直至海边的那块低地。[qh]
