【31 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克貝利·費恩曆險記】
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I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knew I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking—thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we floating along, talking and singing and laughing.
我覺著挺好的，覺得自己已經把所有的罪惡都清洗乾淨了，這是我有生以來第一次有這樣的感覺。我知道，如今我可以祈禱啦。不過我沒有立刻就去祈禱，而是一邊把紙放好一邊在回憶——想著事情發展成現在這樣，這是一件多麼棒的事情啊；想著我又怎樣差點兒迷失方向，掉進地獄。我又想到了我們沿河而下的情景，我發現傑姆一直以來都在我的眼前：無論是在白天，還是在深夜，有時在月色下，有時在風暴中，我們沿途漂泊，一起聊天、唱歌、歡笑。
But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his, instead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we
可是不管怎樣我似乎找不到任何事，能叫我對他硬起心腸來。而且情況正好相反，我看到即使他才值完了班，他也不願意前來叫我，寧願替我值班，這樣就可以讓我繼續睡大覺了。我看到，當我從一片濃霧中回來時他是有多高興呀；當我從宿敵所在的沼澤地中回來去找他時，他是多麼高興；我記得這些相似的時刻；記得他總要叫我乖乖，總是寵著
had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
我，總是想儘一切方法為我著想，他對我一向都這麼好。最後我又想起了救他的那件事：我對人們說我們木筏子上有害天花的人，當時他是特別感謝我，說我是老傑姆在這個世上最好的朋友，也是他如今唯一的朋友。正是那時，我朝四周張望的時候碰巧看到了那張紙。
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knew it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself：
紙條離得挺近，我把它揀了起來，拿在手裡。我在發抖，因為知道我得在兩條路中做出選擇，選擇了就永遠也不能反悔了。我略微屏著呼吸仔細考慮了一分鐘，隨後我對自個兒說：
w t . p o o在盡節章說小新最
.pu ti erot dna-”lleh ot OG ll’I ,neht ,thgir llA“
。了撕條紙把手隨我”。吧獄地下就獄地下，吧好“
lufwa dna sthguoht lufwa saw tI
