Treasure Island
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Part 3
Chapter 13 (excerpt)
金银岛
罗伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森
第三部分
选自 第十三章
奚识之 译
The appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was altogether changed. Although the breeze had now utterly failed, we had made a great deal of way during the night, and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast. Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sandbreak in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-top-ping the others--- some singly, some in clumps, but the general colouring was uniform and sad. The hills ran up clear above the vegetation in spires of naked rock. All were strangely shaped, and the Spy glass, which was by three or four hundred feet the tallest en the island, was likewise the strangest in configuration, running up sheer from almost every side, and then suddenly cut off at the top like a pedestal to put a statue on.
那个岛的状态，已经完全改变了,当我次日的早晨,走到甲板上的时候。虽然海上的徐风,也已经完全平息了，我们却在夜间走了好些路程，这个时候吾们的船正很太平的横躺在离岛的平坦的东海岸的东南,大约半哩路的地方。灰色的树林,包蔽住了岛的大部分的面积。这种纯粹的颜色,被低地的几条黄色的沙地,和高出其他一切的许多松柏的高树所打破了；——有些树是孤立的,有些是密集的,不过一般的颜色是相同的和阴沉的。山顶的赤裸的岩石，像尖塔似的耸立在森林的上方。一切的山顶,都很怪异的尖触着，至于那个望远镜山顶，比岛上别的山更高出三四百呎，它的形势最奇妙。四周差不多统是当空壁立的，但是一到顶上却突然的平坦了，像放石像的基台一样。
The Hispaniola was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell. The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking,groaning, and jumping like a manufactory. I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world turned giddily before my eyes; for though I was a good enough sailor when there was way on, this standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all in the morning, on an empty stomach.
We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island, and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island. I volunteered for one of the boats, where I had, of course, no business. The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work. Anderson was in command of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the worst.
"Well," he said, with an oath, "it's not for ever."
[希世攀内阿拉]不断的摇荡着,放水门浸没在大浪之中。帆樯上的横木,拖住了滑车,舵板不时的前后摇动，于是全船之上,发出辗轧的声音,呼呼的声音，震荡着好像一个工厂一样。我只得紧紧的握住桅缆，一切在我的眼前都变成晕花起来了;因为当船在路上的时候，我虽是个好极的水手,但是我这样老是如此的立着,又是像瓶子-般的被荡来荡去,立着不呕吐真是一桩难忍的事情了，并且几次我真要吐出来厂。尤其是在早上,肚子饿着的时候。
我们在早上有着极沉闷的工作,因为那时候，一点儿风影都没有,因此只得放下小艇去乘了人，把船沿岛岬拖行了三四哩路程，兜到[骸骨岛]背后的狭隘的港口。当然,在这种拖曳的事务上,我是没职务的，不过我却自告愿地跳到一只小艇里去。因为天气酷热困人,水手们都凶狠地抱怨着他们的工作。[安德生]是我的小艇上的发命令的,他非但不去约束水手,却连自己也高声恶狠的抱怨着。
“好吧”他像立誓一般的说道，“这也不是永久的事情。”
The place was entirely landlocked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high-water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphithcatre, one here, one there. Two little rivers, or rather, two swamps, emptied out into this pond, as you might call it; and the foliage round that part of the shore had a kind of poisonous brightness. From the ship, we could see nothing of the house or stockade, for they were quite buried among trees; and if it had not been for the chart on the companion, we might have been the first that had ever anchored there since the island arose out of the seas.
There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside. A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage --- a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks. I observed the doctor sniffing and sniffing, like someone tasting a bad egg.
停泊的地方,四周完全被陆地围绕着,那块地方是埋没在森林之中,树木一直生长到高潮所到的地方,海岸大部分是平坦的，许多的山顶，像圆形剧场相仿佛，环立在不远的地方，一个是在这里，一个是在那边。还有两条小河,或者，竟可说它是两个小池塘,都流入这个可以叫它做池子的港口;沿这一带海岸的边,水光中都反出一种强烈的光辉。我们在船中望去,我们见不到有屋宇和栅栏等东西。因为它们都是深埋在树林之中的;我们倘使不看在舱房那里的海图,恐怕以为这岛自从透出海而到现在，我们这次的抛锚要算是第一次的抛锚了。
那个地方一些的风息都没有，一些的声音也没有，只有在半哩以外的海滩边,澎湃的波音.和港外冲击着山石的浪击之声。在抛锚停船的地方，有一种特别的臭味——是一种各种烂叶子的草泥,和腐朽的木杆的臭气昧。我见到医生在那里一嗅一嗅的嗅着,好象有人吃坏鸡蛋的样子。
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