一句一译的安徒生童话 第7章 勇敢的小锡兵 The Brave Tin Soldier (第4/5页)

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He ought to have a boat to sail in.”

于是他们用一张报纸做了一艘船，把锡兵放在里面，让他沿着排水沟航行，两个男孩在旁边跑着，还拍着手。

So they made a boat out of a newspaper, and placed the tin soldier in it, and sent him sailing down the gutter, while the two boys ran by the side of it, and clapped their hands.

天哪，排水沟里涌起了多大的浪啊！水流得多么湍急啊！因为雨下得非常大。

Good gracious, what large waves arose in that gutter! and how fast the stream rolled on! for the rain had been very heavy.

纸船上下颠簸，有时还转得非常快，快得让小锡兵直发抖；然而他依然很坚定；他神色不变；他直视前方，扛着他的火枪。

The paper boat rocked up and down, and turned itself round sometimes so quickly that the tin soldier trembled; yet he remained firm; his countenance did not change; he looked straight before him, and shouldered his musket.

突然，小船冲进了一座桥下，这座桥是下水道的一部分，桥下黑得就像小锡兵的盒子一样。

Suddenly the boat shot under a bridge which formed a part of a drain, and then it was as dark as the tin soldier’s box.

“我现在要去哪儿呢？”他想。“我敢肯定，这都是那个黑妖精的错。

“Where am I going now?” thought he. “This is the black goblin’s fault, I am sure.

啊，要是那位小女士也在船上和我在一起就好了，那样我就不会在乎黑暗了。”

Ah, well, if the little lady were only here with me in the boat, I should not care for any darkness.”

突然出现了一只大老鼠，它就住在下水道里。

Suddenly there appeared a great water - rat, who lived in the drain.

“你有通行证吗？”老鼠问，“马上把它给我。”

“Have you a passport?” asked the rat, “give it to me at once.”

但是小锡兵一声不吭，把火枪握得更紧了。

But the tin soldier remained silent and held his musket tighter than ever.

船继续航行，老鼠在后面跟着。

The boat sailed on and the rat followed it.

他咬牙切齿地对着那些木块和稻草大喊：“拦住他，拦住他；他没交过路费，也没出示通行证。”

How he did gnash his teeth and cry out to the bits of wood and straw, “Stop him, stop him; he has not paid toll, and has not shown his pass.”

但是水流越来越湍急。

But the stream rushed on stronger and stronger.

小锡兵已经能看到桥洞尽头透出的亮光了。

The tin soldier could already see daylight shining where the arch ended.

然后他听到一阵轰鸣声，这声音非常可怕，足以吓倒最勇敢的人。

Then he heard a roaring sound quite terrible enough to frighten the bravest man.

在隧道的尽头，下水道在一个陡峭的地方落入一条大运河中，这对他来说就像瀑布对我们一样危险。

At the end of the tunnel the drain fell into a large canal over a steep place, which made it as dangerous for him as a waterfall would be to us.

他离得太近，已经停不下来了，所以船继续往前冲，可怜的小锡兵只能尽可能地挺直身子，眼皮都不眨一下，以表明他并不害怕。

He was too close to it to stop, so the boat rushed on, and the poor tin soldier could only hold himself as stiffly as possible, without moving an eyelid, to show that he was not afraid.

船转了三四圈，然后水就快漫到船沿了；

The boat whirled round three or four times, and then filled with water to the very edge;

没有什么能阻止它下沉了。

nothing could save it from sinking.

现在他站在齐脖子深的水里，船越沉越深，纸因为湿透变得又软又松，最后水没过了小锡兵的头顶。

He now stood up to his neck in water, while deeper and deeper sank the boat, and the paper became soft and loose with the wet, till at last the water closed over the soldier’s head.

他想起了那位优雅的小舞者，他再也见不到她了，歌声在他耳边响起 ——

He thought of the elegant little dancer whom he should never see again, and the words of the song sounded in his ears —

“再见了，勇士！永远勇敢，向着你的坟墓漂流而去。”