To Build a Fire
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
In Part 1 of “To Build a Fire, ” the man is traveling along the Yukon Trail with a dog.
在“建火”的第一部分中,此人正用一只狗沿着育空地道行走。
It is seventy-five degrees below zero, and the man hopes to reach his camp shortly after dark.
它在零下75度, 人希望在天黑后不久到达他的营地。
When he falls through the ice, he needs to stop and build a fire before he freezes.
当他从冰上倒下时,他需要停下来并建起起起火来再被冻死.
He succeeds in building a fire.
他成功建起起火来.
However, it is put out when a pile of snow falls on it from the tree above.
然而,当从上面的树上倒下一堆雪时,它就会被扑灭.
Part 2 he man was shocked.
第二部分 他男人震惊了
It was like hearing his own judgment of death.
就像听到他自己对死亡的判决
For a moment he sat and stared at the spot where the fire had been.
有一瞬间,他坐在火的原地看着他。
Then he grew very calm.
然后他变得非常平静。
Perhaps the old man on Sulphur Creek was right.
也许硫溪上的老人是对的
If he had a companion on the trail, he would be in no danger now.
如果他在路上有同伴 他就不会有危险了
The companion could have built the fire.
同伴能生起火来.
Now, he must build the fire again, and this second time he must not fail.
现在,他必须再造起火来,这第二次他绝不能失败.
Even if he succeeded, he would be likely to lose some toes.
即使成功,他也有可能失去一些脚趾.
His feet must be badly frozen by now, and there would be some time before the second fire was ready.
他的脚现在肯定已经冻僵了 第二次大火还没准备好 一定还有时间
Such were his thoughts, but he did not sit and think them.
这是他的想法,但他没有坐下来思考。
He was busy all the time they were passing through his mind.
他总是忙着通过他的思想
He made a new foundation for a fire, this time in the open space, where no tree would be above it.
他为起火创造了新的基础,这次是在空地上,没有一棵树会在上面.
Next, he gathered dry grasses and tiny sticks.
接下来,他收集了干草和小棍子。
He could not bring his fingers together to pull them out of the ground, but he was able to gather them by the handful.
他无法把手指拉出地来,但他却能把手指拉出地来。
In this way he also got many pieces that were undesirable, but it was the best he could do.
这样他也得到了许多不受欢迎的作品,但这是他所能做的最好的.
He worked carefully, even collecting an armful of the larger branches to be used later when the fire gathered strength.
他小心翼翼地工作,甚至收集出一臂更大的分枝来等火力集中后再使用.
And all the while the dog sat and watched him.
狗坐着看着他
There was an anxious look in its eyes because it depended upon him as the fire provider, and the fire was slow in coming.
其眼中有一种焦虑的眼神,因为它依赖于他作为火的供养者,而火来缓慢.
When all was ready, the man reached in his pocket for the second piece of tree bark.
当一切准备就绪时,那个男人在口袋里伸出了第二块树皮.
He knew the bark was there, although he could not feel it with his fingers.
他知道树皮在那里,尽管他无法用手指感觉到.
He tried again and again, but he could not grasp it.
他一次又一次尝试,但是他无法把握.
And all the time, in his mind, he knew that each instant his feet were freezing.
一直以来,在他心目中,他知道每分每秒他的脚都冻僵了.
This thought alarmed him, but he fought against it and kept calm.
这想法让他感到震惊,但他与之抗争并保持了冷静.
He pulled on his mittens with his teeth and began swinging his arms.
他用牙齿拉起手套并开始挥起手臂.
Then he beat his hands with all his strength against his sides.
后以所出力相克而相克.
He did this while he was sitting down.
他坐着的时候就这么做了
Then he stood up to do it.
后起而立.
All the while the dog sat in the snow, its tail curled warmly over its feet and its sharp wolf ears bent forward as it looked at the man.
狗坐在雪地上时 它的尾巴在脚上迅速卷起 尖锐的狼耳朵在看着他时向前弯曲
And the man, as he waved his arms and hands, looked with longing at the creature that was warm and secure in the covering provided by nature.
那个人挥起手和手臂, 满怀着渴望地注视着 温暖而安全的自然覆盖物。
After a time, he began to notice some feeling in his beaten fingers.
一段时间后,他开始注意到被打手指的一些感觉.
The feeling grew stronger until it became very painful, but the man welcomed the pain.
这种感觉越来越强烈,直到变得非常痛苦为止,但是这个男人欢迎这种痛苦.
He pulled the mitten from his right hand and grasped the tree bark from his pocket.
他从右手取出手套 从口袋取出树皮
The bare fingers were quickly numb again.
光手指很快又麻木了。
Next, he brought out his pack of matches.
接下来,他拿出他的包火柴。
But the awful cold had already driven the life out of his fingers.
但可怕的寒冷已经把生命从他手指上赶走了
In his effort to separate one match from the others, the whole pack fell in the snow.
在他试图将一场比赛与其它比赛分开时,整群人倒入了雪地.
He tried to pick it out of the snow but failed.
他试图从雪中取出,但失败了.
The dead fingers could neither touch nor hold.
死活的手指既不能触摸,也不能握住。
Now he was very careful.
现在他非常小心。
He drove the thought of his freezing feet, and nose, and face, from his mind.
他把冰冻的脚和鼻子 以及脸的念头 都从他的脑海里推开
He devoted his whole soul to picking up the matches.
他全心全意去捡火柴
He followed the movement of his fingers with his eyes, using his sense of sight instead of that of touch.
他用他的眼睛跟随手指的运动,用他的视觉感而不是触摸感.
When he saw his fingers on each side of the pack, he closed them.
当他看到手指在包的两侧时,他闭上了手指.
That is, he willed to close them, because the fingers did not obey.
也就是说,他愿意关闭它们,因为手指没有服从。
He put the mitten on the right hand again and beat it fiercely against his knee.
他又把手套放在了右手上并猛烈地击打他的膝盖.
Then, with both mittened hands, he lifted up the pack of matches, along with much snow, to the front of his jacket.
然后,他用两只被蒙住的手,举起一包火柴,加上多地的雪,去他的外套前.
But he had gained nothing.
但他一无所获
After some struggling, he managed to get the pack between his mittened hands.
经过一些挣扎,他设法得到了包 在他的手套手之间。
In this manner he carried it to his mouth.
他用这种方式把它带到口上。
The ice broke as he opened his mouth with a fierce effort.
冰块破碎时,他以激烈的努力打开口.
He used his upper teeth to rub across the pack in order to separate a single match.
他用上牙来擦过包包以分出一对一对.
He succeeded in getting one, which he dropped on his jacket.
他成功地得到了一个, 他掉在他的外套。
His condition was no better.
他的病情没有好转。
He could not pick up the match.
他拿不来比赛
Then he thought how he might do it.
然后他想着怎样做
He picked up the match in his teeth and drew it across his leg.
他从牙齿取出火柴并画出他腿上.
Twenty times he did this before he succeeded in lighting it.
在他成功点燃前他做了20次
As it flamed, he held it with his teeth to the tree bark.
当它被火焰所燃起时,他用牙齿把它抱到树皮上.
But the burning smell went up his nose, causing him to cough.
但被烧焦的气味传出鼻子上,导致他咳嗽.
The match fell into the snow and the flame died.
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The old man on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that followed.
硫溪上的那个老人是对的,他认为在之后的受控绝望时刻.
After fifty below zero, a man should travel with a companion.
在零下五十后,一个人应该和同伴一起出行.
He beat his hands but failed to produce any feeling in them.
他殴打了自己的双手,但没有产生任何感觉。
Suddenly he bared both hands, removing the mittens with his teeth.
突然他把两只手都伸出来,用牙齿取出手套.
He caught the whole pack of matches between his hands.
他把整包火柴都抓了起来
His arm muscles were not frozen, and he was able to press the hands tightly against the matches.
他的手臂肌肉没有被冷冻,他能够把双手紧紧地压在火柴上.
Then he drew the whole pack along his leg.
然后他把整个包画在腿上
It burst into flame, seventy matches at once!
它突然爆发了 70个火柴
There was no wind to blow them out.
没有风吹倒他们。
He kept his head to one side to escape the burning smell, and held the flaming pack to the tree bark.
他把头靠在一边以躲避被烧焦的气味,把火花包抱到树皮上.
As he so held it, he noticed some feeling in his hand.
当他拿着它时,他注意到他手上有些感觉。
His flesh was burning.
他的肉体在燃烧
He could smell it.
他闻得到
The feeling developed into pain.
感觉发展为痛苦
He continued to endure it.
他继续忍受。
He held the flame of the matches to the bark that would not light readily because his own burning hands were taking most of the flame.
他拿着火柴和树皮的火焰 不会轻而易举地照亮,因为他自己燃烧的双手正在取去大部分的火焰.
Finally, when he could endure no more, he pulled his hands apart.
最后,当他无法再忍受时,他把双手扯开。
The flaming matches fell into the snow, but the tree bark was burning.
起火的火柴倒入了雪中,但树皮正在燃烧.
He began laying dry grasses and the tiniest sticks on the flame.
他开始在火焰上放干草和最细小的棍子。
He could not choose carefully because they must be pieces that could be lifted between his hands.
他无法谨慎地选择,因为这些东西必须是可以在他双手之间举起的碎片。
Small pieces of green grass stayed on the sticks, and he bit them off as well as he could with his teeth.
小片的绿草留在了棍子上,他用牙齿咬了它们。
He treated the flame carefully.
他小心地对待火焰。
It meant life, and it must not cease.
它意味着生命,它绝不能停止。
The blood had left the surface of his body, and he now began to shake from the cold.
血已经离开他的身体表面,他现在开始从寒冷中摇起.
A large piece of a wet plant fell on the little fire.
一大块被湿的植物倒在了小火上.
He tried to push it out with his fingers.
他试图用手指推出它。
His shaking body made him push it too far, and he scattered the little fire over a wide space.
他的摇晃身体使他推得太远,他把小火分散到很宽的空间.
He tried to push the burning grasses and sticks together again.
他试图再把烧焦的草地和棍子一起推.
Even with the strong effort that he made, his trembling fingers would not obey, and the sticks were hopelessly scattered.
即使他付出了巨大的努力,他颤抖的手指也不会服从,而棍子也无望地被打散了.
Each stick smoked a little and died.
每根棍子都抽了一点 就死了
The fire provider had failed.
消防员失败了
As he looked about him, his eyes noticed the dog sitting across the ruins of the fire from him.
当他看着他时,他的眼睛注意到了坐在从他身上起火的废墟对面的狗.
It was making uneasy movements, slightly lifting one foot and then the other.
它在进行不安的移动, 稍微抬起一脚,然后另一脚。
The sight of the dog put a wild idea into his head.
狗的目光把一个疯狂的主意塞入他头上.
He remembered the story of the man, caught in a storm, who killed an animal and sheltered himself inside the dead body and thus was saved.
他回忆起那个被暴风雨所困住的人的故事,他杀死了一只动物并躲入了尸体,从而被拯救.
He would kill the dog and bury his hands in the warm body until feeling returned to them.
他会杀死这只狗 并将他的双手埋入温暖的身体 直到感觉回到他们身上
Then he could build another fire.
然后,他可以再建个火.
He spoke to the dog, calling it to him.
他和那条狗说话,叫他过来.
But in his voice was a strange note of fear that frightened the animal.
但在他的声音中,是一个奇怪的恐惧的音符 吓到了动物。
It had never known the man to speak in such a tone before.
它从未知道这个人会这样说话。
Something was wrong and it sensed danger.
出事了,感觉危险
It knew not what danger, but somewhere in its brain arose a fear of the man.
它不知道什么是危险, 但在他的大脑的某个地方 引起对男人的恐惧。
It flattened its ears at the sound of the man’s voice; its uneasy movements and the liftings of its feet became more noticeable.
它在人的声音下使耳朵平平;它的不易动和脚的抬起变得更加明显。
But it would not come to the man.
但它不会来的人。
He got down on his hands and knees and went toward the dog.
他跪下朝狗走来
But this unusual position again excited fear, and the animal moved away.
但这种不寻常的姿势再次激起恐惧,而动物也搬走.
The man sat in the snow for a moment and struggled for calmness.
这名男子在雪地上坐了一会儿,为冷静而挣扎.
Then he pulled on his mittens, using his teeth, and then stood on his feet.
后来他拉起手套,用牙,然后站起脚来.
He glanced down to assure himself that he was really standing because lack of feeling in his feet gave him no relation to the earth.
他俯视下来是为了向自己保证他真的站了下来,因为他脚下缺乏感觉使他与地球没有关系.
His position, however, removed the fear from the dog’s mind.
然而,他的立场消除了狗的恐惧。
When he commanded the dog with his usual voice, the dog obeyed and came to him.
当他用他通常的声音指挥狗的时候,狗顺从并来到他身边.
As it came within his reach, the man lost control.
当它到达他的控制范围, 那人失去了控制。
His arms stretched out to hold the dog, and he experienced real surprise when he discovered that his hands could not grasp.
他的手臂伸出来抱住这只狗,当他发现手无法抓住时,他经历了真正的惊喜.
There was neither bend nor feeling in the fingers.
手指没有弯曲或感觉。
He had forgotten for the moment that they were frozen and that they were freezing more and more.
他暂时忘记了它们被冻结,并且越来越被冻结。
All this happened quickly, and before the animal could escape, he encircled its body with his arms.
所有这一切迅速发生,在动物能逃脱之前,他用手臂包围了它的身体.
He sat down in the snow, and in this fashion held the dog, while it barked and struggled.
他坐在雪地上,以这种方式抱着狗,而狗却吠叫并挣扎.
But it was all he could do: hold its body encircled in his arms and sit there.
但他能做的就是: 将身体塞入怀里,坐在那里。
He realized that he could not kill the dog.
他意识到自己无法杀死这只狗.
There was no way to do it.
没有办法做到这一点。
With his frozen hands he could neither draw nor hold his knife.
他用冰冻的手,既不能画,也不能拿起刀子。
Nor could he grasp the dog around the throat.
他也不能抓住狗的喉咙。
He freed it and it dashed wildly away, still barking.
他释放了它,它狂奔而去,仍然吠叫。
It stopped forty feet away and observed him curiously, with ears sharply bent forward.
它停在了40英尺外,好奇地观察他,耳朵急剧向前弯曲.
The man looked down at his hands to locate them and found them hanging on the ends of his arms.
这名男子低头地看着他的双手找到他们的位置,发现他们被吊在手臂的一端.
He thought it curious that it was necessary to use his eyes to discover where his hands were.
他认为好奇的是,有必要用他的眼睛来发现他的手在哪里.
He began waving his arms, beating the mittened hands against his sides.
他开始挥起手来,将被击打的手打倒在地上。
He did this for five minutes.
他做了五分钟
His heart produced enough blood to stop his shaking.
他的心脏产生足够的血液来阻止他发抖.
But no feeling was created in his hands.
但是他手中没有产生任何感觉。
A certain fear of death came upon him.
他有点害怕死亡
He realized that it was no longer a mere problem of freezing his fingers and toes, or of losing his hands and feet.
他意识到,这不再仅仅是他的手指和脚趾被冻住的问题,或者失去手脚的问题.
Now it was a problem of life and death with the circumstances against him.
现在,这是一个生死问题 与他的情况。
The fear made him lose control of himself, and he turned and ran along the creek bed on the old trail.
恐惧使他失去自我控制,他转过身来,沿着老道上的小溪床跑去.
The dog joined him and followed closely behind.
这只狗加入了他,并紧跟在后面.
The man ran blindly in fear such as he had never known in his life.
此人盲目地在恐惧中奔跑,这是他一生中从未见过的.
Slowly, as he struggled through the snow, he began to see things again—the banks of the creek, the bare trees, and the sky.
慢慢地,当他经过雪地挣扎的时候,他又开始看见了事物——小溪的岸边,赤裸的树木和天空.
The running made him feel better.
跑步让他感觉好多了
He did not shake any more.
他不再摇晃了。
Maybe, if he continued to run, his feet would stop freezing.
也许,如果他继续跑,他的脚会停止冰冻.
Maybe if he ran far enough, he would find the camp and the boys.
也许如果他跑得够远 他会找到营地和孩子们
Without doubt, he would lose some fingers and toes and some of his face.
毫无疑问,他会失去一些手指和脚趾以及他的一些相貌。
But the boys would take care of him and save the rest of him when he got there.
但是,孩子们会照顾他,并在他到达那里时救活他剩下的人.
And at the same time, there was another thought in his mind that said he would never get to the camp and the boys.
同时,他心里还有另一个想法,说他永远到不了营地和孩子们.
It told him that it was too many miles away, that the freezing had too great a start and that he would soon be dead.
它告诉他,这太远了, 冰冻有一个伟大的开始, 他很快就会死。
He pushed this thought to the back of his mind and refused to consider it.
他把这个想法推到脑后,拒绝考虑.
Sometimes it came forward and demanded to be heard.
有时,它站出来,要求被听到。
But he pushed it away and tried to think of other things.
但他推开它,试图去想其他的事情.
It seemed strange to him that he could run on feet so frozen that he could not feel them when they struck the earth and took the weight of his body.
在他看来,似乎很奇怪的是,他可以脚踏实地地跑来跑去,这样被冻住,当他们打出地来并取走他身体的重量时,他无法感觉到.
He seemed to be flying along above the surface and to have no connection with the earth.
他似乎在地上飞来飞去 与地球没有任何联系
His idea of running until he arrived at the camp and the boys presented one problem: he lacked the endurance.
他关于跑到营地的想法,孩子们提出了一个问题:他缺乏耐力。
Several times he caught himself as he was falling.
他摔倒的时候有好几次被抓了
Finally, he dropped to the ground, unable to stop his fall.
最后他倒地了,无法阻止他的倒地.
When he tried to rise, he failed.
当他试图起立时,他失败了.
He must sit and rest, he decided.
他必须坐下休息 他决定了
Next time he would merely walk and keep going.
下次他只会继续走下去
As he sat and regained his breath, he noted that he was feeling warm and comfortable.
当他坐下来恢复呼吸时,他指出,他感到温暖和舒适。
He was not shaking, and it even seemed that a warm glow had come to his body.
他没有发抖,他的身体似乎也出现了一股温暖的光芒。
And yet, when he touched his nose or face, there was no feeling.
然而,当他摸到鼻子或脸时,却没有任何感觉.
Running would not bring life to them.
逃跑不会给他们带来生命。
Nor would it help his hands and feet.
也不能帮助他的手脚。
Then the thought came to him that the frozen portions of his body must be increasing.
然后,他想到,他身体被冻结的部分一定在增加。
He tried to keep this thought out of his mind and to forget it.
他试图不考虑这个想法 并忘记它。
He knew that such thoughts caused a feeling of fright in him, and he was afraid of such feelings.
他知道这种思想使他感到恐惧,他害怕这种感觉.
But the thought returned and continued, until he could picture his body totally frozen.
但是这个想法又继续了,直到他能想象出他的身体完全被冻结.
This was too much, and again he ran wildly along the trail.
这太过分了,他再次疯狂地沿着小道跑去。
Once he slowed to a walk, but the thought that the freezing of his body was increasing made him run again.
有一次他慢跑到散步,但认为他身体被冻得越来越厉害的想法使他再次跑出.
And all the time the dog ran with him, at his heels.
狗一直跟着他跑 跟着他
When he fell a second time, the dog curled its tail over its feet and sat in front of him, facing him, curiously eager.
当他第二次倒下时,这只狗将尾巴卷到脚上并坐在他面前,面对他,令人好奇地渴望.
The warmth and security of the animal angered him.
动物的温暖和安全令他愤怒.
He cursed it until it flattened its ears.
他诅咒它,直到它平平了耳朵。
This time the shaking because of the cold began more quickly.
这一次因为寒冷而发抖的开始更快.
He was losing his battle with the frost.
与霜相会而败.
It was moving into his body from all sides.
它从四面八方进入他的身体
This thought drove him forward.
这个想法促使他前进。
But he ran no more than a hundred feet, when he fell headfirst.
却跑出去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去去
It was his last moment of fear.
这是他最后的恐惧时刻。
When he had recovered his breath and his control, he sat and thought about meeting death with dignity.
当他恢复了呼吸和控制力后,他坐下来想着有尊严地迎接死亡.
However, the idea did not come to him in exactly this manner.
然而,这一想法并没有完全以这种方式降临他。
His idea was that he had been acting like a fool.
他的想法是他一直表现得像个傻瓜.
He had been running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
他像只被砍头的鸡一样到处跑
He was certain to freeze in his present circumstances, and he should accept it calmly.
他肯定在当前情况下会冻结,他应当冷静地接受。
With this newfound peace of mind came the first sleepiness.
有了这种新发现的平心静虑 才有了第一次入睡
A good idea, he thought, to sleep his way to death.
好主意,他想,睡觉去死。
Freezing was not as bad as people thought.
冰冻并没有人们想象的那么糟糕。
There were many worse ways to die.
有很多更糟糕的死法
He pictured the boys finding his body the next day.
他想象孩子们第二天发现他的尸体
Suddenly he saw himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself.
他突然看见自己跟他们在一起,沿着小道走来寻找自己.
And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow.
却发现自己躺在雪地上
He did not belong with himself any more.
他不再属于自己。
Even then he was outside of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow.
即使在那时,他还是站在自己之外,和孩子们站在一起,在雪地上看着自己.
It certainly was cold, was his thought.
这当然是冷的,是他的想法。
When he returned to the United States he could tell the folks what real cold was.
当他回到美国时 他可以告诉大家什么是真正的寒冷。
His mind went from this to the thought of the old man of Sulphur Creek.
其心从此入于硫溪之老也.
He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.
他可以看到他非常清晰,温暖和舒适,并抽了一根管子.
“You were right, old fellow.
“你说得对,老家伙。
You were right,” he murmured to the old man of Sulphur Creek.
你说得对,“他向硫溪的老人发牢骚。
Then the man dropped into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.
然后那个男人掉进了在他看来最舒适和最满意的睡眠中
The dog sat facing him and waiting.
狗坐在他面前等着
The brief day ended in a long evening.
短暂的一天在漫长的夜晚结束.
There were no signs of a fire to be made.
没有火的痕迹
Never in the dog’s experience had it known a man to sit like that in the snow and make no fire.
在狗的体验中,从来没有人知道在雪地里坐着那样,没有起火。
As the evening grew darker, its eager longing for the fire mastered it.
随着夜晚越来越黑暗 它渴望着火的到来
With much lifting of its feet, it cried softly.
脚抬起很多后,轻轻地哭了.
Then it flattened its ears, expecting the man’s curse.
然后,它使耳朵平地,等待着人类的诅咒。
But the man remained silent.
但那个人保持沉默。
Later, the dog howled loudly.
后来,这只狗大声地叫喊.
And still later it moved close to the man and caught the smell of death.
之后它又移动到那个男人身边 并发现了死亡的味道
This made the animal back away.
这让动物离开了。
A little longer it delayed, howling under the stars that leaped and danced and shone brightly in the cold sky.
稍长地延后了,在飞跃而起舞并闪耀于寒冷天空的星星下嚎叫.
Then it turned and ran along the trail toward the camp it knew, where there were the other food providers and fire providers.
然后它转过身来,沿着小道跑到它知道的地方,那里有其他的食品供应商和消防供应商。
ILLO: Dog running down the trail, alone.
狗独自跑去小道
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