Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the others have asked me to write down all I know about Treasure Island .My name is Jim Hawkins, and I was in the story right from the start, back in 17-.I was only a boy then, and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn, at Black Hill Cove .I remember so clearly the day when the old seaman came to stay-I can almost see him in front of me as I write.
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他是个高个子,而且很健壮,手里提着一个海员手提箱,脸上有一道伤疤。他来到客店时唱着那支水手老调:
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He arrived with his sea-chest, a tall, strong man with a cut across one cheek. He sang that old sea sang as he walked up to the inn door:
The old seaman called for a glass of rum,and stood outside,drinking and looking around. Our inn was on me cliffs above Black Hill Cove, and was a wild ,lonely place. But the seaman seemed to like it.
‘Then it’s the place for me,’said the seaman.‘I’ll stay here for a bit. You can call me Captain.’He threw down three or four gold coins.‘Tell me when I’ve spent all that.’
He was a silent man. All day he walked around the cove, or up on the cliffs ;all evening he sat in a corner of the room, and drank rum and water .He only spoke to our other customers when he was drunk. Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea. Our customers were mostly quiet ,farming people; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone.
Every day, he asked if any seamen had gone along the road. At first we thought he wanted friends of his own kind, but then we began to understand that there was a different reason .He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared. He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this .I dreamed about this one-legged seaman for many nights afterwards.
Dr Livesey came late one afternoon. After he had seen my father ,he had dinner with my mother, then stayed to smoke his pipe .I noticed the difference between the doctor with his white hair and pleasant way of speaking, and that dirty, heavy, red-faced seaman, drunk with rum.
Dr Livesey did not like the song.He looked up angrily before he went on talking to old Taylor, the gardener. Others in the room took no notice of the song. The captain beat the table with his hand for silence. The voices in the room died away, all except Dr Livesey’s.The doctor continued to speak.
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老船长轻声骂了一句,喊道:“安静,听见没有?”
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The captain swore softly, then said,‘ Silence!’
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“你在对我说话吗,先生?”大夫问。
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‘Are you speaking to me ,sir?’asked the doctor.
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“对,”老船长说,又夹着一句咒骂。
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‘Yes,’the captain told him, swearing again.
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“我只想对你讲一句话,先生,”大夫说,“如果你还不戒酒,这世界上很快就会减少一个十足的混蛋!”
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‘I have only one thing to say to you, sir,’ replied the doctor.‘If you keep on drinking rum ,the world will soon be free of a dirty scoundrel!’
The captain jumped to his feet with a knife in his hand ,but the doctor never moved .He spoke to the captain in a calm and clear voice so that others in the room could hear:
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“如果你不把刀收起来,我担保你会被送上绞架的。”
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‘If you don’t put that knife away, I promise you shall die a criminal’s death under the law.’
Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the cap-tain soon put away his weapon and sat down like a beaten dog. Soon after Dr Livesey rode away on his horse. The captain was silent for the rest of the evening, and for many evenings after-wards.