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The Horse Dealer's Daughter

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販馬者的女兒

By DH Lawrence

'Well, Mabel, and what are you going to do with yourself?' asked Joe, with foolish flippancy. He felt quite safe himself. Without listening for an answer, he turned aside, worked a grain of tobacco to the tip of his tongue, and spat it out. He did not care about anything, since he felt safe himself.

「好啦，瑪貝爾，你怎麼打算？」喬的問話愚蠢又刻薄。他感覺良好，等不及回答，他就轉過臉去，吐掉了舌尖上的一絲煙葉。他對一切都無所謂，什麼都不必擔心。

The three brothers and the sister sat round the desolate breakfast table, attempting some sort of desultory consultation. The morning's post had given the final tap to the family fortunes, and all was over. The dreary dining-room itself, with its heavy mahogany furniture, looked as if it were waiting to be done away with.

兄弟三個和妹妹圍坐在黯淡凄涼的早餐桌前，扯著些沒有邊際的話題。早晨的郵件將這個家庭的命運推向了邊緣，再也沒有希望了。陰沉的飯廳以及笨重的桃花心木傢具，似乎在等待著死神的降臨。

But the consultation amounted to nothing. There was a strange air of ineffectuality about the three men, as they sprawled at table, smoking and reflecting vaguely on their own condition. The girl was alone, a rather short, sullen-looking young woman of twenty-seven. She did not share the same life as her brothers. She would have been good-looking, save for the impassive fixity of her face, 'bull-dog', as her brothers called it.

遺憾的是，家庭會議毫無結果。一種挫敗的生疏的氣氛縈繞在這三個男人間，他們懶散的圍坐在餐桌周圍，吃煙，心不在焉的想著各自的處境。屋子裡的姑娘她相當瘦小，臉色陰郁，已是27歲的成年女子。她獨自一人，過著與她兄弟們完全全不同的生活，她本有著姣好的容貌，但由於她臉上一成不變的表情令人望而生畏，「鬥牛犬」，正如她兄弟們叫她的那樣。

There was a confused tramping of horses' feet outside. The three men all sprawled round in their chairs to watch. Beyond the dark holly-bushes that separated the strip of lawn from the highroad, they could see a cavalcade of shire horses swinging out of their own yard, being taken for exercise. This was the last time. These were the last horses that would go through their hands. The young men watched with critical, callous look. They were all frightened at the collapse of their lives, and the sense of disaster in which they were involved left them no inner freedom.

遠遠的，外面傳來模糊的沉重的馬蹄聲，男人們癱坐的椅子里往外張望。越過將狹長的草坪從大路分開的冬青灌木叢，可以看見一大群夏爾馬搖晃著走出馬廄，這是最後一次訓練了，這也是最後一批經手的馬匹了。三個年輕人帶著挑剔冷漠的表情望著這一切，生活的崩塌令他們不知所措，陷進失敗的沼澤的感覺沒有留給他們選擇的自由。

Yet they were three fine, well-set fellows enough. Joe, the eldest, was a man of thirty-three, broad and handsome in a hot, flushed way. His face was red, he twisted his black moustache over a thick finger, his eyes were shallow and restless. He had a sensual way of uncovering his teeth when he laughed, and his bearing was stupid. Now he watched the horses with a glazed look of helplessness in his eyes, a certain stupor of downfall.

但是，兄弟三個關系不錯，手足之情牢不可破。喬，年齡最大，紅臉膛，33歲的他高大魁梧，帥氣，熱烈奔放，易激動。他肥厚的手指擰著他那黑漆漆的髭須，淡藍色的眼睛顯得焦躁不安。當他露齒而笑時顯出他性感的一面，但他的舉止風度卻令人不敢恭維。現在，他為某種幻滅感所攜裹，正凝望著馬隊，他目光呆滯，無能為力。

The great draught-horses swung past. They were tied head to tail, four of them, and they heaved along to where a lane branched off from the highroad, planting their great hoofs floutingly in the fine black mud, swinging their great rounded haunches sumptuously, and trotting a few sudden steps as they were led into the lane, round the corner. Every movement showed a massive, slumbrous strength, and a stupidity which held them in subjection. The groom at the head looked back, jerking the leading rope. And the cavalcade moved out of sight up the lane, the tail of the last horse, bobbed up tight and stiff, held out taut from the swinging great haunches as they rocked behind the hedges in a motionlike sleep.

大隊的役馬過去了。四個一組，從頭到尾被栓在一起，在一條從大路岔開去的小路前，它們停下來無所顧忌地踢踏著腳下細黑的污泥，劇烈地搖晃著它們巨大渾圓的臀部，當它們被趕往拐角處的小路時，又疾走幾步。每一次一動都顯得困難重重，試圖使這些馬匹順從的努力看起來也愚不可及。走在前面的馬夫轉過頭來，猛扯韁繩。不一會功夫，馬隊上了小路，從視線中消失了，突然，最後一匹馬的尾巴翹地老高，僵直緊綳，與那些搖晃著它們那巨大渾圓的臀部的昏昏欲睡的擋在樹籬後的馬隊形成了鮮明的對比。

Joe watched with glazed hopeless eyes. The horses were almost like his own body to him. He felt he was done for now. Luckily he was engaged to a woman as old as himself, and therefore her father, who was steward of a neighbouring estate, would provide him with a job. He would marry and go into harness. His life was over, he would be a subject animal now.

喬無助地，目光呆滯地凝望著。他想像著自己的身體就如同那些馬匹一樣，他覺得自己已經完了。值得慶幸的是，他和一個跟他一般年齡的姑娘訂了婚，姑娘的父親是附近一個農庄的管理者，也許能給他一個工作。他將結婚，受人奴役。人生結束了，從此將過著與受人支配的動物並無二致的生活。

He turned uneasily aside, the retreating steps of the horses echoing in his ears. Then, with foolish restlessness, he reached for the scraps of bacon-rind from the plates, and making a faint whistling sound, flung them to the terrier that lay against the fender. He watched the dog swallow them, and waited till the creature looked into his eyes. Then a faint grin came on his face, and in a high, foolish voice he said:

'You won't get much more bacon, shall you, you little b----?'

The dog faintly and dismally wagged its tail, then lowered his haunches, circled round, and lay down again.

他不安地轉向一邊，可是馬匹退卻的腳步聲仍縈繞於耳際，揮之不去。然後，帶著笨拙有焦躁不安的心情，他伸手去拿碟子里小片的咸豬肉皮，同時發出一聲虛弱的哨音，猛地扔給了靠在壁爐擋板邊的小獵狗。他注視著小獵狗吞下豬肉皮，直至這小傢伙抬頭看他的眼睛。這時，他臉上浮現出一絲笑意，然後以高昂卻笨拙的聲音說：

「沒有了，是吧，你這小----」

小獵狗悶悶地微微搖了搖尾巴，然後垂下狗屁股，將身子蜷成一團，重又躺下了。
The Horse Dealer's Daughter(two)(2008-09-09 17:41:54)標簽：雜談

There was another helpless silence at the table. Joe sprawled uneasily in his seat, not willing to go till the family conclave was dissolved. Fred Henry, the second brother, was erect, clean-limbed, alert. He had watched the passing of the horses with more sang-froid. If he was an animal, like Joe, he was an animal which controls, not one which is controlled. He was master of any horse, and he carried himself with a well-tempered air of mastery. But he was not master of the situations of life. He pushed his coarse brown moustache upwards, off his lip, and glanced irritably at his sister, who sat impassive and inscrutable.

餐桌周圍也是一片無助的沉默。喬癱坐在椅子上，在家庭會議結束之前，他不想離開。第二個兄弟佛瑞德.亨利，他身材挺拔，手足勻稱，機靈敏捷。望著馬隊走過，他顯得更加鎮靜自若。如果他是個動物，像喬一樣，他也是個動物的領導者，而不是被領導的動物。他熟悉每一匹馬的習性，並能恰當合理控制自己的脾性。然而他也不是生活角逐中的勝利者，推了推唇上的棕色鬍子，不無惱火地看了他妹妹一眼。她坐在那裡，面無表情，令人難以捉摸。

'You'll go and stop with Lucy for a bit, shan't you?' he asked. The girl did not answer.

'I don't see what else you can do,' persisted Fred Henry.

'Go as a skivvy,' Joe interpolated laconically.

The girl did not move a muscle.

'If I was her, I should go in for training for a nurse,' said Malcolm, the youngest of them all. He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau.

「你將去和露西暫住一起，是吧？」他問到，但卻沒有得到回答。

「我覺得你什麼都做不了。」佛瑞德.亨利不肯善罷甘休。

「去做女傭得了。」喬橫插一杠。

「我是她啊，乾脆做個看護得了。」馬爾科姆也不甘寂寞，一副不通世故，洋洋得意的嘴臉。他是這個家裡最小的一個，只有22歲。

But Mabel did not take any notice of him. They had talked at her and round her for so many years, that she hardly heard them at all.

但瑪貝爾對他置若罔聞。他們在她周圍喋喋不休了這么多年，她壓根兒就沒當回事兒。

The marble clock on the mantel-piece softly chimed the half-hour, the dog rose uneasily from the hearthrug and looked at the party at the breakfast table. But still they sat on in ineffectual conclave.

'Oh, all right,' said Joe suddenly, a propos of nothing. 'I'll get a move on.'

半小時過去了，壁爐台上的大理石鍾輕輕地響了起來，爐前小地毯上的小獵狗不安的站了起來，張望著餐桌周圍的所有人。但他們仍坐在那裡，進行著那毫無進展的家庭會議。

「噢，好吧，」喬突然說道，a propos of nothing 「我活動活動。」

He pushed back his chair, straddled his knees with a downward jerk, to get them free, in horsy fashion, and went to the fire. Still he did not go out of the room; he was curious to know what the others would do or say. He began to charge his pipe, looking down at the dog and saying, in a high, affected voice:

'Going wi' me? Going wi' me are ter? Tha'rt goin' further than tha counts on just now, dost hear?'

他向後推了推椅子，為了舒活筋骨，他以馬步的姿勢叉開兩膝迅速蹲了下去，然後朝著壁爐走去。但他沒有離開這間屋子，他很想知道其他人會做些什麼或者說些什麼。他開始裝他的煙斗，低頭看著那條狗，以一種高昂卻又裝模作樣的聲音問到：

「跟我？還是跟他們？必須馬上作出決定，聽到沒有？」
The Horse Dealer's Daughter(three)(2008-09-09 17:49:04)標簽：雜談

The dog faintly wagged its tail, the man stuck out his jaw and covered his pipe with his hands, and puffed intently, losing himself in the tobacco, looking down all the while at the dog with an absent brown eye. The dog looked up at him in mournful distrust. Joe stood with his knees stuck out, in real horsy fashion.

小狗微微晃了晃尾巴。喬伸長下巴，用手蓋住了他的煙斗，狠狠的吸了一口，一直盯著小狗那迷離恍惚的眼神，他在煙霧中完全迷失了。小獵狗抬頭望著他，眼神里滿是令人神傷的疑惑。喬站在那裡，伸長的兩膝像極了馬的姿勢。

'Have you had a letter from Lucy?' Fred Henry asked of his sister.

「你收到露西的信了嗎？」佛瑞德.亨利問他妹妹。

'Last week,' came the neutral reply.

「上周收到的。」淡淡的回答。

'And what does she say?'

「她怎麼說？」

There was no answer.

沒有回答。

'Does she ask you to go and stop there?' persisted Fred Henry.

「她邀請你跟她一起住？」佛瑞德.亨利打破砂鍋問到底。

'She says I can if I like.'

「只要我願意。」

'Well, then, you'd better. Tell her you'll come on Monday.'

「那麼，這樣最好了。告訴他你星期一就去。」

This was received in silence.

沒有聲息。

'That's what you'll do then, is it?' said Fred Henry, in some exasperation.

「你就這種態度？」佛瑞德.亨利有些火了。

But she made no answer. There was a silence of futility and irritation in the room. Malcolm grinned fatuously.

仍然沒有回答。屋子裡安靜極了，充滿了徒勞無益和憤怒。馬爾科姆在那裡傻笑。

'You'll have to make up your mind between now and next Wednesday,' said Joe loudly, 'or else find yourself lodgings on the kerbstone.'

「從現在到下周三你必須作出決定。」喬大聲說到，「否則，自己露宿街頭。」

The face of the young woman darkened, but she sat on immutable.

霎時，瑪貝爾臉色陰沉，但她仍無動於衷。

'Here's Jack Fergusson!' exclaimed Malcolm, who was looking aimlessly out of the window.

「傑克.菲爾古森來了。」馬爾科姆叫了起來，他的望著窗外游移不定。

'Where?' exclaimed Joe, loudly.

「在哪？」喬大聲問道。

The Horse Dealer's Daughter(four)(2008-09-09 17:51:32)標簽：雜談

'Just gone past.'

「剛剛過去。」

'Coming in?'

「進來了？」

Malcolm craned his neck to see the gate.

馬爾科姆伸長脖子望著門口。

'Yes,' he said.

「嗯。」他答道。

There was a silence. Mabel sat on like one condemned, at the head of the table. Then a whistle was heard from the kitchen. The dog got up and barked sharply. Joe opened the door and shouted:

'Come on.'

又沒有聲息了。瑪貝爾坐在餐桌最前方，像個被審判者。不一會兒功夫，口哨聲在廚房那邊響起，小獵狗跳起來尖聲狂吠。喬打開門叫道：

「進來吧。」

After a moment a young man entered. He was muffled up in overcoat and a purple woollen scarf, and his tweed cap, which he did not remove, was pulled down on his head. He was of medium height, his face was rather long and pale, his eyes looked tired.

不一會兒一個年輕人進來了，厚厚的大衣將他包裹的嚴嚴實實，一條紫色羊毛披肩，一頂軟尼斜紋便帽罩在他頭上。他中等身材，相當長的面孔，蒼白的臉色，眼神看起來疲憊不堪。

'Hello, Jack! Well, Jack!' exclaimed Malcolm and Joe. Fred Henry merely said, 'Jack.'

「你好，傑克。」馬爾科姆和喬打了招呼。佛瑞德.亨利只是淡淡叫了聲「傑克」。

'What's doing?' asked the newcomer, evidently addressing Fred Henry.

「怎麼樣？」很明顯，傑克在問佛瑞德.亨利。

'Same. We've got to be out by Wednesday.--Got a cold?'

「老樣子，下周三我們就要滾蛋了。感冒了？」

'I have--got it bad, too.'

「嗯，糟透了。」

'Why don't you stop in?'

「怎麼不呆在家裡?」

'Me stop in? When I can't stand on my legs, perhaps I shall have a chance.' The young man spoke huskily. He had a slight Scotch accent.

「家裡？我的碰碰運氣，總得自食其力啊!」這個年輕人聲音沙啞，有點蘇格蘭口音。

'It's a knock-out, isn't it,' said Joe, boisterously, 'if a doctor goes round croaking with a cold. Looks bad for the patients, doesn't it?'

「優勝劣汰，是吧？」喬有點不著邊際，「一個醫生感冒了，到處傳染嘶啞的嗓音，這對病人來說可不大好，對吧？」

The young doctor looked at him slowly.

年輕醫生慢慢轉向他。

'Anything the matter with you, then?' he asked sarcastically.

「關你什麼事？」醫生語帶諷刺。

'Not as I know of. Damn your eyes, I hope not. Why?'

「當然不。狗咬呂洞賓，不識好人心，我可不想這樣，為何？」

'I thought you were very concerned about the patients, wondered if you might be one yourself.'

「我還以為你高尚無比呢，卻不知你只在乎你自己。」

'Damn it, no, I've never been patient to no flaming doctor, and hope I never shall be,' returned Joe.

「該死，不，我可從來不是冷漠醫生的病人，恐怕永遠不會。」喬反唇相譏。

At this point Mabel rose from the table, and they all seemed to become aware of her existence. She began putting the dishes together. The young doctor looked at her, but did not address her. He had not greeted her. She went out of the room with the tray, her face impassive and unchanged.

這是瑪貝爾站了起來，他們似乎到現在才意識到她的存在。她開始收拾桌上的餐具。年輕醫生看著她，但並沒有和她說話，他從來沒有和她說過話。她端著托盤離開了房間，臉上的表情一如既往。

'When are you off then, all of you?' asked the doctor.

「你們什麼時候離開，所有人？」醫生問道。

㈡ 百萬寶貝的幕後花絮

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·最開始，是導演安傑麗卡·休斯頓向製片人艾伯特·盧迪(Albert S. Ruddy)推薦短篇小說集《Rope Burns》中的故事，並希望盧迪能讓她執導。後來當盧迪取得了拍攝權時，休斯頓卻因片約纏身而無法執導。
·全片拍攝僅耗時37天。
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Black Horse 黑駿馬

Jed got to the top of the mountain and sat down to rest. The July sun had made him hot.
傑德到了山頂，就坐下來休息。7月底太陽使他熱汗淋淋。

It had been a long walk to the top and he was tired. He knew the horse he was trying to capture could not be too far away. He looked at the mountain and the valleys below, searching footmarks left by the horse.
他走了很長一段路才到山頂的，所以感到渾身乏力。他知道他想方設法要逮住的那匹馬離此不會太遠。他察看折山上及下面的山谷，尋找著那匹馬留下的蹄印。

Then he saw the marks going down the other side of the mountain. He must capture the horse. He knew better men than he had tried. Tom Raglan, the best rancher in the state, had tried with the help of his cowboys.
這時，他看到在山的另一側，順坡而下有一行馬蹄印。他一定要逮住這匹馬。他知道曾有比他更有能耐的人嘗試過。州內最好的牧場主湯姆·拉格倫就曾經在他那幫牛仔的幫助下做過嘗試.

But they had not been able to capture it. It had gotten away from others, too. They all said it was too wild. It could not be captured.
但他們並沒有能逮住它,其他試圖去逮它的人也都失敗了，都讓它逃脫了。他們都說他太野，是不可能被逮住的。

After a slow, painful walk down the mountain, Jed came to a cool-looking river. He drank the clear water.順著山路向下，慢慢地、艱難地走了一段之後，傑德到達一條水看上去十分清澈的河邊，喝了幾口河水。

Further down the valley he saw the black horse. It stood under a tree out of the sun. Jed moved closer, then hid behind a tree to watch. It was the biggest and blackest and blackest he had ever seen.
接著又沿山谷向前走了一段，這是他看到了那匹黑馬，他站在一棵樹下遮太陽。傑德又走進了些，然後躲在一棵樹後觀察。這是他有生以來見過的最大、最黑的馬。

Jed knew all about horse. He had grown into a man caring for them. He had never earned more than '10 but he had dreams: If he could get a male and female house and 10 hectares of land, he could sell horses. That would be all the happiness Jed wanted.
傑德對馬了如指掌。他是一個從小與馬廝混、在馬背上長大的人。盡管他掙的錢從來沒有超過10美元，但他有自己的夢想：如果他能夠得到一匹公馬、一匹母馬和10公頃土地，他就可以養馬並以賣馬為生了。那就是傑德想要得到的全部幸福了。

Night came. The big black house moved from under the tree and began to eat grass near the river. Jed watched again. A few hours later, he found a soft place in the ground. He placed his head against an old fallen tree and slept.
夜幕降臨。那匹大黑馬從樹下走了出來，走到河邊開始吃草。傑德繼續觀察著。幾小時後，他在地上找了一塊柔軟的地方，將頭靠在一棵倒著的老樹上睡著了。

The next day he woke with the sun. His eyes searched for the horse, and there it was, grazing. Jed saw how it ate, then lifted its head and looked all around. It was the mark of the wild, always looking for hidden danger.
第二天日出時他醒了過來，馬上就用目光尋找那匹馬，還好，它就站在那裡，正吃著草呢。傑德看著它吃草，隨後又見它抬起頭，朝四周看看。這就是野馬的特徵：它們總是十分小心，不時地看看四周是否有什麼暗藏的危險。

Jed started to walk toward the horse. The horse stopped eating and looking at Jed. Jed's heart began to beat heavily. Men had said the horse was a killer. Still, he walked closer.
傑德開始慢慢向它走近。它停止吃草，看著傑德。傑德的心開始「咚咚」直跳。人們都說這馬是一個殺手，但他還是繼續向它靠近。

Fifteen meters away from the horse Jed stopped. The horse had lifted its front feet high in the air, then placed them heavily back on the ground. Jed moved closer. He talked to the horse in a soft voice.
在離它15米遠的地方，傑德停了下來。只見它高高的抬起前蹄，然後又重重的落回原地。傑德又走近了些。他開始柔聲跟它說話。

Then, with a loud scream, the horse turned and ran down the valley. Jed sank to the ground wet with excitement. He had done what no man had done.
接著，隨著一聲響亮的嘶鳴，這匹馬轉身順著山谷跑了下去。傑德卻因興奮而渾身大汗淋漓，倒在地上。他已經做了別人沒有做到的事兒.

He had almost touched the wild horse. The animal was not a killer. If it had been, Jed would be dead now.
他幾乎快要挨到這匹野馬了。它並不是一個殺手，如果它是的話，傑德現在已經沒命了。

For six days he followed the horse. He rested when the horse rested. Jed did not like the land they were in now. The sides of the valley were high and filled with big rocks. Few trees were around. And the bottom of the valley was soft and wet.
他一連跟蹤了這匹馬6天。只有馬歇的時候，他才歇。傑德不喜歡他現在所呆的地方。這山谷的兩側都很高，到處是大岩石，周圍沒有多少樹，而且谷底又軟又濕。

Jed watched the horse a while, and then lay down to sleep.
傑德又看了一會兒馬，隨後躺下來睡覺。

In the middle of the night, he was awakened by thunder and rain. He walked up the rocks until he found a dry hole, safe from the rain, and he slept again.
半夜十分，他被雷雨聲驚醒。他立刻沿著岩石向上走，直到找了一個可以蔽雨的乾燥的山洞，他再接著睡。

The next day was cold and wet. Heavy rains had softened the bottom of the valley. He followed the house most of the day. The wet valley was the only place it could walk now.
第二天又冷又濕。大雨已經泡軟了谷底的土壤。這一天他大部分時間都在跟著馬走。濕濕的山谷是現在它唯一可以行走的地方了。

The sides of the valley had gotten higher. Toward evening he saw it again. But this time there was fear in its face. He stopped and watched. The horse's nose was smelling the air. It smelled danger. It smelled danger.
越走，山谷兩側就顯得越高。臨近黃昏時分，他才又見到了它，但這次它的臉上出現了一種恐懼的神情。他停下來仔細觀察，只見馬鼻子在嗅著空氣，他聞到了危險的氣息。

Jed thought of wild animals, a wildcat(鏈接至同目錄下wildcat）or bear maybe. He pulled his knife from his pants. He looked among the rocks but saw nothing.
傑德想到是不是有什麼野獸，一隻豹貓，也可能是一隻熊。他從褲子里抽出刀，在岩石間四處看看，但什麼也沒有看見。

He began walking toward the horse. The wildcat could have been on either side of the valley. He walked slowly, trying to watch both sides at the same time.
他便向馬走過去。豹貓可能在山谷的某一側。他走得很慢，盡力同時看著兩側。

Slowly he came to the horse's side. Jed kept watching the rocks. If the cat was going to attack, it would do it now. He felt the excitement of danger.
慢慢地，他來到了馬身邊。傑德一直盯著那些岩石。豹貓如果要襲擊，它現在就會跳出來的。他感到既危險又興奮。

Suddenly the silence was broken. The black horse screamed loudly, a cry of fear. It began running down the wet valley.
突然，寂靜被打破了。黑駿馬大聲嘶叫起來，那是一種充滿恐懼的叫喊。隨後，它順著濕漉漉的山谷奔跑起來。

At the same time there was a heavy, deep noise from the rocks. Then it happened. Tons of wet earth and big rocks began moving down the sides of the mountain. The land itself was the enemy.
與此同時，岩石中傳出了一種沉重的、深沉的響聲。緊接著，事情就發生了。成噸成噸的濕土和大岩石開始從山坡兩側滾落下來。原來山地本身就是馬的敵人。

When the air became clear, Jed looked for the horse. In front of him were tons of the fallen earth. He could not see down the valley and could not see the horse.

當空氣恢復清新的時候，傑德立刻開始找馬。在他面前是滾落下來的成噸的泥土，他無法看到山谷的前方，也看不到馬。

He slowly climbed over the fallen rocks. On the other side was the horse, more frightened than ever. Its legs were stuck in the soft earth and it could not move. The more it struggled, the deeper it sank in the mud.

他慢慢地爬過那些落下來的岩石。馬在這個石土堆的另一邊，看上去比先前更加恐懼。它的腿陷入了軟土裡，動彈不得。 而它越掙扎，就在泥中陷的越深。

Jed walked toward the animal. Each step he took, the soft mud tried to suck him down, too. He walked on the grassy places harder than the mud.

傑德向它走過去。他每走一步都感到軟泥也在將他向下吸，而且在長草的地方走比在泥里走還要艱難。

When he got to the horse, it was in the mud up to his stomach. Now it could move only its head. Jed felt wildly happy when he touched the horse. 「Don't struggle and do not worry, Horse! I'll get you out!」

當他趕到馬身邊的時候，泥已經驗到了馬肚上，現在它只剩下頭部還能動彈。摸到馬，傑德感到欣喜若狂。「別掙扎，別擔心，馬兒！我會把你弄出來的！」

Suddenly he felt the horses teeth on his arm. He bit his lip to stop it from crying aloud. His free hand gently calmed the horse and slowly it let go. It pressed its nose against Jed's face. At last they were friends.

突然，他趕到馬的牙齒咬住了他的手臂。他咬住嘴唇，以防自己疼得叫出聲來。他用那隻沒被咬著的手輕撫馬身，使它平靜下來，慢慢地讓它松開了嘴。隨後，馬將鼻子貼在了傑德的臉上。最後，他們成了朋友。

Now Jed could go to work. He studied the problem carefully. He had no way to lift the big horse from the mud. Certainly his rope was not strong enough.

現在傑德可以開始忙活了。他仔細研究了這個問題。他沒有辦法將這么大的一匹馬從泥里拽出來，它的繩子顯然不夠結實。

He began to pull the mud away with his hands. But more mud fell into the hole he g. He ran to the rocks that had fallen down the mountain. He took off his shirt and filled it with rocks. He g again.

他開始用手將泥刨開，但這樣以後，更多的泥又落進了他剛挖開的窟窿里。他就跑到那些山上落下的岩石邊，脫下襯衣將岩石裹住，又挖了起來。

Only this time, he placed rocks in the holes he g. The rocks stayed still and slowly a wall began to form. He did this through the day and when night came, his hands were bloody, torn by the sharp rocks.

這一次，他將岩石放進他挖開的窟窿里，岩石穩穩地呆在裡面，慢慢地形成了一面擋土石壁。他整整挖了一天。夜幕降臨時，他的兩手已經被尖銳的岩石劃得血淋淋的。

He knew night would be a bad time for the horse. He did not want it to become frightened and struggle against the wall of rock he was building in the mud.

他知道，夜晚對馬來說是很難熬的。他不想讓馬害怕，以至於掙紮起來踢壞他在泥里建好的石壁。

He cut some small trees, laid them on the ground next to the horse and all through the night, he spoke soft, kind words to it to calm its fears.

他砍了一些小樹，將它們放在馬旁邊的地上。另外，整整一夜，他都跟馬說一些溫柔友善的話來解除它的恐懼。

The next morning, he brought grass for it to eat and began his work again. It was slow, hard work. When night came, he lay next to the horse again. He did not want it to struggle yet. The time had not come for the test.

第二天早上，他抱來些草讓它吃，然後又開始忙活起來。這是一項好時而又艱苦的工作。夜幕降臨時，他又在馬旁邊躺了下來。現在他還不想讓馬從泥中掙脫出來，考驗的時機還沒有到。

By the middle of the next day, he had enough rocks in the mud on one side of the horse. Now he began to dig near the houses front legs. His rocks began to make the mud harder. The horse was able to move a little.

到第三天中午的時候，他在馬一邊的泥里放進了足夠的岩石。現在他開始挖馬前腿附近的土了。他放的岩石使泥地堅硬了起來，馬開始能動一點兒了。

And when the pressure became less, it raised one of its front legs on to the rocks. It pushed against the rocks on its side and lifted its body a little out of the mud.

而感到壓力變小了的時候，馬便將它的一條前腿拔了出來，翹到了岩石的上面，然後朝身邊的岩石猛蹬，使它的身體從泥里稍微抬起了點兒。

Jed got his rope and tied it around the horses neck. He began to pull on the rope.

傑德拿出繩子，將它繫到馬的脖子上，開始拉繩。

The horse felt the pull and struggled with all its power against the mud. It raised its other front leg on the rocks and with a mighty push with its back legs and with Jed pulling on its neck, it moved forward toward hard land.

馬感到了拉力，就用盡全力在泥里向外掙扎。他將另一條前腿也拔出來，搭在了岩石上，靠著後腿的巨大蹬力和傑德對它脖子施加的拉力，他向前面的硬地移動著。

Jed fell on the earth, happy but tired. He had not eaten for three days. He had slept little. Half sleep, he felt the horses nose push against his face. He jumped to his feet and when he brought grass for the horse it made friendly noises and playfully pushed him.

傑德倒在地上，高興而又疲憊。他已經三天沒吃東西了，睡的覺也不多。正有點迷迷糊糊的，他感到馬的鼻子拱到了他的臉上，他趕快一躍而起。當他為馬抱來草料時，馬發出了友好的叫聲，頑皮地拱拱他，和他戲耍。

A week later, a big black horse rode on the land owned by Tom Raglan. It stopped near the ranch house. A little man got off the horses back. Tom Raglan looked at the horse with eyes that did not believe. Finally he said: "You got him."

一周之後，有人騎了一匹大黑馬來到牧場主湯姆·拉格倫的領地上。他在牧場房邊停下來，一名小個子男人從馬背上跳了下來。湯姆·拉格倫用吃驚的眼光看著這匹馬，眼前的情景簡直令他難以置信。最後，他說：「你得到了他。」

"I got him, Tom, and I brought him back as I said I would."

「我的得到了他，湯姆，而且正像我說過的那樣，我把他騎回來了。」

Raglan looked at the horse. Above all, he was a horseman and there was no need for Jed to tell him how he captured it. Jed's tired face, his torn hands, dirty clothes and thin body told the story.

拉格倫看著馬。他畢竟是一個馬主，沒有必要讓傑德告訴他是怎麼逮住馬的。傑德疲憊的臉、劃爛的手、骯臟的衣服和瘦弱的身體就已說明了一切。

「Jed,」 Raglan said. 「that horse will kill anyone except you. I do not want it. But I have not forgotten my promise."

「傑德，」拉格倫說，「那匹馬會弄死除你之外的任何人，我不想要它。但我沒忘記自己的諾言。

"I will give you some land and the old house in back of the ranch if you will keep the horse there. I pay you '30 a month, if you will let me send my female horses to the black horse."

如果你讓這匹馬一直呆在這兒，我就把一些土地和牧場後邊的那坐老房子送給你。如果你讓我把我的母馬送到你的黑駿馬那裡去交配的話，我會每個月付給你三十美元。

"I want the black horse's blood in my horses. And you can keep every seventh horse for yourself.」

我想要我的馬的身體力都有黑駿馬的血統。而且，你可以留下交配後產下的小馬中的七分之一。」

Jed put his arm around the black horse. The black horse was his. His dream had come true. It was too much all at once.

傑德伸出手臂，抱住大黑馬。黑駿馬成他的了。他的夢想已經變為現實了。突然之間，他得到的真是太多了。