(单词翻译:单击)
He fought now like a human flail, and every sweep of that terrible sword would have severed in twain any man or boy who obstructed it;
他像一个打稻谷连枷,频频挥动着剑;无论哪个大人或孩子,一碰到这可怕的剑,都会被挥成两段。
but Peter fluttered round him as if the very wind it made blew him out of the danger zone. And again and again he darted in and pricked.
可是彼得在他周围闪来闪去,好像那剑扇起来的风把他吹出了危险地带。他一次次地发起进攻。
Hook was fighting now without hope. That passionate breast no longer asked for life;
胡克现在对取胜已不抱希望。他那颗残暴的心,也不再乞求活命;
but for one boon it craved: to see Peter show bad form before it was cold forever.
只盼着在死前能得到一个恩赐:看到彼得失态。
Abandoning the fight he rushed into the powder magazine and fired it.
胡克无心恋战,跑到火药库里点着了火。
"In two minutes," he cried, "the ship will be blown to pieces."
“不出两分钟,”他喊道,“整条船就要炸得粉碎。”
Now, now, he thought, true form will show.
这下好了,胡克想,看看各人的真面目吧。
But Peter issued from the powder magazine with the shell in his hands, and calmly flung it overboard.
可是彼得从火药库里跑出来,手里拿着弹药,不慌不忙地把它扔到海里。
What sort of form was Hook himself showing? Misguided man though he was, we may be glad, without sympathising with him,
胡克自己表现的风度又如何呢?他虽然是个误入歧途的人,我们对他不抱同情,
that in the end he was true to the traditions of his race.
但我们还是高兴地看到,他在最后关头遵守了海盗的传统准则。
The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently,
这时,别的孩子围着他攻打,讥笑他,嘲弄他。他蹒跚地走过甲板,有气无力地还击他们,
his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up for good,
他的心思已经不在他们身上。他的心思懒洋洋游荡在早年的游戏场上,或者扬帆远航,
or watching the wall-game from a famous wall.
或者观看一场精彩的拍墙游戏。
And his shoes were right, and his waistcoat was right, and his tie was right, and his socks were right.
他的鞋,背心,领结,袜子都整整齐齐。
James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell.
詹姆斯·胡克,你不能说不是一条好汉,永别了。
For we have come to his last moment.
因为他的最后时刻已经来到了。
Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.
看到彼得举着剑慢慢地凌空向他飞来,他跳上了船舷,纵身跳下海。
He did not know that the crocodile was waiting for him;
他不知道鳄鱼正在水里等着他;
for we purposely stopped the clock that this knowledge might be spared him: a little mark of respect from us at the end.
因为,我们有意让钟停止滴答,免得他知道这个情况,这总算是最后对他表示一点敬意吧。
