Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 6

于是汤姆拿出一张纸，上面写着誓言，他把它读了出来。

So Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on, and read it.

誓言要求每个男孩都要忠于帮派，绝不泄露任何秘密；

It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets;

如果有人伤害了帮中任何一个男孩，被命令去杀死那个人及其家人的男孩必须照办，

and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it,

在杀死他们并在他们胸口砍出一个十字之前，他不得吃饭，不得睡觉，

and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts,

那个十字就是帮派的标志。

which was the sign of the band.

任何不属于帮派的人都不能使用这个标志，如果有人用了，就必须被告上法庭；

And nobody that didn't belong to the band could use that mark, and if he did he must be sued;

如果他再犯，就必须被处死。

and if he done it again he must be killed.

如果帮中任何人泄露了秘密，就必须割断他的喉咙，然后烧掉他的尸体，将骨灰四处撒开，

And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around,

他的名字要用血从名单上涂掉，帮派中永远不再提起他的名字，还要给他诅咒，永远将他遗忘。

and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.

大家都说这是一段非常漂亮的誓言，并问汤姆这是不是他自己想出来的。

Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head.

他说，有一部分是他自己想的，但其余的是从海盗书和强盗书里来的，凡是高档的帮派都有这些规矩。

He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it.

有些人觉得最好也把泄露秘密的男孩的家人一并杀掉。

Some thought it would be good to kill the families of boys that told the secrets.

汤姆说这个主意不错，于是他拿起铅笔把它写了进去。

Tom said it was a good idea, so he took a pencil and wrote it in.