(单词翻译:单击)
The night's work was not yet over, for it was not the redskins he had come out to destroy;
不过，这一夜的工作还没有做完，胡克出来并不是为了杀印第安人；
they were but the bees to be smoked, so that he should get at the honey.
印第安人只不过是用烟熏走的蜜蜂，他要取的是蜜。
It was Pan he wanted, Pan and Wendy and their band, but chiefly Pan.
他的目标是彼得·潘，还有温迪以及他们那一伙，但主要是彼得·潘。
Peter was such a small boy that one tends to wonder at the man's hatred of him.
彼得是那么小的一个小男孩，这就叫人琢磨不透，为什么胡克那么恨他。
True he had flung Hook's arm to the crocodile, but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile's pertinacity,
不错，他曾把胡克的一条胳臂扔给了鳄鱼；更由于鳄鱼穷追不舍，使胡克的生命安全越发没有保证。
hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant.
不过，这也很难说明，胡克为什么这样残酷无情，凶狠毒辣。
The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy.
事实是，彼得身上有某种气质，引得这位海盗船长暴怒如狂。
It was not his courage, it was not his engaging appearance, it was not--.
不是彼得的勇敢，不是他那逗人喜爱的模样，不是……
There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell. It was Peter's cockiness.
我们用不着乱猜了，因为我们都很清楚那是什么，不能不把它说出来。那是彼得的那种趾高气扬的傲气。
This had got on Hook's nerves; it made his iron claw twitch, and at night it disturbed him like an insect.
正是这个，刺激着胡克的神经，恨得他的铁钩直打颤，夜里，它像一只虫子，扰得他不能安睡。
While Peter lived, the tortured man felt that he was a lion in a cage into which a sparrow had come.
只要彼得活着，这个受折磨的人就觉得自己像是一头关在笼子里的狮子，笼子里飞进了一只麻雀。
The question now was how to get down the trees, or how to get his dogs down?
现在的问题是，怎样钻进树洞，或者说，怎样把他的喽罗们塞进树洞呢？
He ran his greedy eyes over them, searching for the thinnest ones.
他抬起他那双贪婪的眼睛扫视着他们，想找一个最瘦小的人。
They wriggled uncomfortably, for they knew he would not scruple to ram them down with poles.
那些喽罗们局促不安地扭动着身子，因为他们知道，他是不惜用棍子把他们捅下去的。
In the meantime, what of the boys?
同时，孩子们又怎样了呢？
We have seen them at the first clang of the weapons,
在兵刀声乍起时，我们看到了他们，
turned as it were into stone figures, open-mouthed, all appealing with outstretched arms to Peter;
他们一动不动像石雕一样，张着嘴，伸出手臂向彼得恳求；
and we return to them as their mouths close, and their arms fall to their sides.
现在回头来看，只见他们闭上了嘴，垂下了手臂。
The pandemonium above has ceased almost as suddenly as it arose, passed like a fierce gust of wind;
头顶上的喧嚣声戛然停止了，像初起时一样来得突然，像一阵狂风吹过似的；
but they know that in the passing it has determined their fate.
但他们知道，狂风过处，已经决定了他们的命运。
Which side had won?
哪一方胜了呢？
