(单词翻译:单击)
At the Gulch, when victory was still in the balance, sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that,
在山谷里,当胜负未决,时而倾向这一方、时而又倾向那一方时,
he called out, "I'm redskin to-day; what are you, Tootles?" And Tootles answered, "Redskin; what are you, Nibs?"
彼得就大喊:”我今天是印第安人。你是什么,图图?”图图说:”印第安人。你是什么,尼布斯?”
and Nibs said, "Redskin; what are you Twin?" and so on; and they were all redskins;
尼布斯说:“印第安人。你们是什么,孪生子?”等等。于是他们都成了印第安人。
and of course this would have ended the fight had not the real redskins fascinated by Peter's methods, agreed to be lost boys for that once,
那些真正的印第安人觉得彼得的做法很新鲜有趣,当然也就同意这一次变成遗失的孩子,
and so at it they all went again, more fiercely than ever.
于是战斗重新打响,越发打得勇猛起来。如果不是这样,这场战争就打不下去了。
The extraordinary upshot of this adventure was—but we have not decided yet that this is the adventure we are to narrate.
这次冒险行动的结局是——不过,我们还没有决定这就是我们要讲的一次冒险故事。
Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground,when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks.
也许一个更好的故事是印第安人夜袭地下的家。那一回,好几个印第安人钻进树洞,上不得,下不得,像软木塞似的给拔了出来。
Or we might tell how Peter saved Tiger Lily's life in the Mermaids' Lagoon, and so made her his ally.
或者我们也可以讲讲,在人鱼的礁湖里,彼得救了虎莲公主的命,因而和她结盟的故事。
Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might eat it and perish;
或者我们还可以讲讲,海盗们做的那个孩子们吃了就会死去的大蛋糕,
and how they placed it in one cunning spot after another;
海盗们怎样一次又一次把它放在巧妙的地方。
but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone,
可是,温迪每次都从孩子们手中把它夺走;渐渐地,那蛋糕的水分干了,硬得像块石头,
and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark.
可以当作一个飞弹来用。夜里,胡克不小心踩上了它,摔了一跤。
Or suppose we tell of the birds that were Peter's friends, particularly of the Never bird that built in a tree overhanging the lagoon,
要不我们可以讲讲和彼得友好的那些鸟儿,特别是永无鸟。这鸟筑巢在礁湖上面的一棵树上,
and how the nest fell into the water, and still the bird sat on her eggs, and Peter gave orders that she was not to be disturbed.
巢落到了水中,可那鸟却还孵在蛋上。彼得下令不要去惊动它。
That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be;
这故事很美,从它的结局可以看到,鸟是多么感恩图报。
