Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 8

我们戴着面具拦截路上的驿车和马车，杀掉那些人，夺走他们的手表和钱财。

We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money.

我们必须每次都杀掉那些人吗？

Must we always kill the people?

哦，当然。这是最好的办法。有些权威人士看法不同，但大多数人认为最好还是把他们杀掉——除了一些你带到山洞里来的人，把他们关着直到收到赎金。

Oh, certainly. It's best. Some authorities think different, but mostly it's considered best to kill them—except some that you bring to the cave here, and keep them till they're ransomed.

赎金？那是什么？

Ransomed? What's that?

我不知道。但他们就是这么做的。我在书里见过；所以我们当然也得这么做。

I don't know. But that's what they do. I've seen it in books; and so of course that's what we've got to do.

但如果我们不知道那是什么，怎么去做呢？

But how can we do it if we don't know what it is?

唉，见鬼，我们就是得这么做。我不是告诉你书上是这么写的吗？你想要做出和书上不一样的事，把一切都搞得乱七八糟吗？

Why, blame it all, we've got to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?

哦，汤姆·索亚，说起来倒是好听，但如果我们根本不知道怎么对他们收赎金，这些家伙到底怎么被赎回去呢？——这才是我想搞清楚的事。那你觉得赎金到底是什么？

Oh, that's all very fine to say, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be ransomed if we don't know how to do it to them?—that's the thing I want to get at. Now, what do you reckon it is?

嗯，我不知道。但也许如果我们把他们关到被赎走，意思就是关到他们死为止。

Well, I don't know. But per'aps if we keep them till they're ransomed, it means that we keep them till they're dead.

嗯，这才像那么回事。这行得通。你为什么不早点这么说呢？我们就把他们关到被赎死为止；不过他们也挺烦人的——吃掉我们所有的东西，还总想着逃跑。

Now, that's something like. That'll answer. Why couldn't you said that before? We'll keep them till they're ransomed to death; and a bothersome lot they'll be, too—eating up everything, and always trying to get loose.

你说话的样子，本·罗杰斯。

How you talk, Ben Rogers.