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| 《鲁滨孙漂流记》（中英文对照，第一部分） |
| 来源：5D互动论坛英语角 作者: pepperoni 作者：佚名 时间：2006-9-1 16:35:51 字号选择：大 中 小 |
现在，我俨然成了做几内亚生意的商人了。不幸的是，我那位当船长的朋友在回伦敦后不久就去世了。尽管如此，我还是决定再去几内亚走一趟，就踏上了同一条船。这时，原来船上的大副做了船长。这是一次最倒霉的航行。虽然我上次赚了点钱，但我只带了不到一百英镑的货物，余下的二百英镑通通寄存在船长寡妇那里。她像船长一样，待我公正无私。但是，在这次航行中，我却屡遭不幸。第一件不幸的事情是：我们的船向加那利群岛驶去，或者，说得更确切些，正航行于这些群岛和非洲西海岸之间。一天拂晓，突然有一艘从萨累开来的土耳其海盗船，扯满了帆，从我们后面追了上来。我们的船也张满了帆试图逃跑。但海盗船比我们快，逐渐逼近了我们。看情形，再过几小时，他们肯定能追上我们。我们立即开始作战斗准备。我们船上有十二门炮，但海盗船上有十八门。大约到了下午三点钟光景，他们赶了上来。 他们本想攻击我们的船尾，结果却横冲到我们的后舷。我们把八门炮搬到了这一边，一起向他们开火。海盗船边后退，边还击；他们船上二百来人一起用枪向我们射击。我们的人隐蔽得好，无一受伤。海盗船准备对我们再次发动攻击，我们也全力备战。这一次他们从后舷的另一侧靠上我们的船，并有六十多人跳上了我们的甲板。强盗们一上船就乱砍乱杀，并砍断了我们的桅索等船具。我们用枪、短柄矛和炸药包等各种武器奋力抵抗，把他们击退了两次。我不想细说这件不幸的事。总之，到最后，我们的船失去了战斗力，而且死了三个人，伤了八人，只得投降。我们全部被俘，被押送到萨累，那是摩尔人的一个港口。
The Usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first I apprehended, nor was I carried up the Country to the Emperor's Court, as the rest of our Men were, but was kept by the Captain of the Rover, as his proper Prize, and made is Slave, being young and nimble, and fit for his Business. At this surprising Change of my Circumstances from a Merchant to a miserable Slave, I was perfectly overwhelmed; and now I look'd back upon my Father's prophetick Disourse to me, that I should be miserable, and have none to relieve me, which I thought was now so effectually brought pass, that it could not be worse; that now the Hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without Redemption. But alas! this was but a Taste of the Misery I was to go thro', as will appear in the Sequel of this Story.
我在那儿受到的待遇，并没有像我当初担心的那么可怕。 其他人都被送到皇帝的宫里去，远离了海岸；我却被海盗船长作为他自己的战利品留下，成了他的奴隶。这是因为我年轻伶俐，对他有用处。我的境况发生了突变，从一个商人一下子变成了可怜的奴隶。这真使我悲痛欲绝。这时，我不禁回忆起我父亲的预言；他说过我一定会受苦受难，并会呼援无门。现在我才感到，父亲的话完全应验了。我现在的境况已再糟不过了。我受到了老天的惩罚，谁也救不了我。可是，唉，我的苦难才刚刚开始呢，下面我再接着细说吧。
As my new Patron or Master had taken me Home to his House, so I was in hopes that he would take me with him hen he went to Sea again, believing that it would some time or other be his Fate to be taken by a Spanish or Portugal an of War; and that then I should be set at Liberty. But his Hope of mine was soon taken away; for when he went to Sea, he left me on Shoar to look after his little Garden, and do the common Drudgery of Slaves about his House; and when he came home again from his Cruise, he order'd me to lye in the Cabbin to look after the Ship.
我的主人把我带回他家中。我满以为他出海时会带上我。如这样，我想，他迟早会被西班牙或葡萄牙的战舰俘获，那时我就可恢复自由了。但我的这个希望很快就破灭了。他每次出海时，总把我留在岸上照看他那座小花园，并在家里做各种奴隶干的苦活。当他从海上航行回来时，又叫我睡到船舱里替他看船。
Here I meditated nothing but my Escape; and what Method I might take to effect it, but found no Way that had the least Probability in it: Nothing presented to make the Supposition of it rational; for I had no Body to communicate it to, that would embark with me; no Fellow-Slave, no Englishman, Irishman, or Scotsman there but my self; so that for two Years, tho' I often pleased my self with the Imaginaion, yet I never had the least encouraging Prospect of putting it in Practice.
在这里，我头脑里整天盘算着如何逃跑，但怎么也想不出稍有希望的办法。从当时的情况来看，我根本没有条件逃跑。我没有人可以商量，没有人与我一起逃跑。我孤身一人形单影只，周围没有其他奴隶，也没有英格兰人、爱尔兰人或苏格兰人。这样过了整整两年。在这两年中，逃跑的计划只有在我想象中实现，并借此自慰，却怎么也无法付诸实施。
After about two Years an odd Circumstance presented it self which put the old Thought of making some Attempt for my Liberty, again in my Head: My Patron lying at Home longer than usual, without fitting out his Ship, which, as I heard, was for want of Money; he used constantly, once or twice a Week, sometimes oftner, if the Weather was fair, to take the Ship's Pinnace, and go Out into the Road a-fishing; and as he always took me and a young Maresco with him to row the Boat, we made him very merry, and I prov'd very dexterous in catching Fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his Kinsmen, and the Youth the Maresco, as they call'd him, to catch a Dish of Fish for him.
大约两年之后，出现了一个特殊的情况，这使我重新升起了争取自由的希望。这一次，我主人在家里呆的时间比以往长。据说是因为手头缺钱，他没有为自己的船配备出航所必需的设备。在这段时间里，他经常坐一只舢舨去港口外的开放锚地捕鱼；每星期至少一、两次，天气好的话，去的次数更多一些。那只舢舨是他大船上的一只小艇。每次出港捕鱼，他总让我和一个摩尔小孩替他摇船。我们两个小年轻颇能得他的欢心，而我捕鱼也确实有一手，因此，有时他就只叫我与他的一个摩尔族亲戚和那个摩尔小孩一起去替他打点鱼来吃；那个摩尔小孩名叫马列司科。
It happen'd one time, that going a fishing in a stark calm Morning, a Fog rose so thick, that tho' we were not half a League from the Shoar we lost Sight of it; and rowing we knew not whither or which way, we labour'd all Day and all the next Night, and when the Morning came we found we had pull'd off to Sea instead of pulling in for the Shoar; and that we were at least two Leagues from the Shoar: However we got well in again, tho' with a great deal of Labour, and some Danger; for the Wind began to blow pretty fresh in the Morning; but particularly we were all very hungry.
一天早晨，我们又出海打鱼。天气晴朗，海面风平浪静。
突然，海上升起浓雾。我们划了才一海里多点，就看不见海岸了。当时，我们已辩不清东南西北了，只是拚命划船。这样划了一天一夜，到第二天早晨才发现，我们不仅没有划近海岸，反而向外海划去了，离岸至少约六海里。最后，我们费了很大的劲，冒了很大的危险，才平安抵岸，因为，那天早晨风很大，而且我们大家都快饿坏了。
But our Patron warn'd by this Disaster, resolved to take more Care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the Long-boat of our English Ship we had taken, he resolved he would not go a fishing any more without a Compass and some Provision; so he ordered the Carpenter of his Ship, who also was an English Slave, to build a little State-room or Cabin in the middle of the Long Boat, like that of a Barge, with a Place to stand behind it to steer and hale home the Main-sheet; and Room before for a hand or two to stand and work the Sails; she sail'd with that we call a Shoulder of Mutton Sail; and the Boom gib'd over the Top of the Cabbin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it Room for him to lye, with a Slave or two, and a Table to eat on, with some small Lockers to put in some Bottles of such Liquor as he thought fit to drink in; particularly his Bread, Rice and Coffee.
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