美國(guó)語(yǔ)文第五冊(cè) 第198期：癲狂的火車司機(jī)（08）

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At that moment a tall, stout German student came over the platform where we stood,

就在那時(shí)，一位高大健壯學(xué)生模樣的德國(guó)人走到我們站立的過道，

and saw that the madman had his heavy pistol aimed at us.

看到那瘋子正用沉重的手槍對(duì)準(zhǔn)我們，

He grasped a huge stick of wood, and, with a steadiness of nerve which I could not have commanded,

那學(xué)生抓起一塊大磚木，屏氣凝神片刻，

he hurled it with such force and precision that he knocked the pistol from the maniac's hand.

準(zhǔn)確猛力地砸向那瘋子手里的手槍，一道我來(lái)不及下令的閃電出手，

I saw the movement, and on the instant that the pistol fell, I sprang forward, and the German followed me.

就在那驚心動(dòng)魄的剎那，手槍落地了，我猛撲向前，那位德國(guó)學(xué)生緊接身后，

I grasped the man by the arm; but I should have been nothing in his mad power, had I been alone.

我抓住克羅爾的胳膊，假如我獨(dú)自一人，或許根本無(wú)法制服他的瘋狂舉動(dòng)；

He would have hurled me from the platform, had not the student at that moment struck him upon the head with a stick of wood,

如果身邊德國(guó)學(xué)生不用那塊磚木猛擊他的頭部，那根他走到過道時(shí)順手操起的木塊，

which he caught as he came over the tender.

克羅爾很可能將我用力摔出過道。

Kroller settled down like a dead man, and on the next instant I shut off the steam and opened the valve.

克羅爾像具尸體應(yīng)聲癱倒在地，我即刻關(guān)閉了蒸汽開關(guān)，打開閥門。

As the free steam shrieked and howled in its escape,

逸出的蒸汽尖銳地嘶叫著，

the speed began to decrease, and in a few minutes more the danger was passed.

火車開始慢慢地減速。幾分鐘后，危險(xiǎn)排除了。

As I settled back, entirely overcome by the wild emotions that had raged within me, we began to turn the river;

我仰坐在地，內(nèi)心完全陷入狂噪不安的暴怒?；疖?yán)@過那條河，

and before I was fairly recovered, the fireman had stopped the train in the station house at Schwetz.

我尚未完全恢復(fù)到正常狀態(tài)，待回過神來(lái)，那位鍋爐工已將火車停在了希維切車站的站臺(tái)上。

Martin Kroller, still insensible, was taken from the platform;

此刻馬丁仍然不省人事，我們將他從火車上抬下，

and, as we carried him to the guard room, one of the guard recognized him, and told us that he had been there about two weeks before.

然后送到車站警衛(wèi)室，一位警衛(wèi)認(rèn)出了他。他告訴我們，大約兩星期前，克羅爾曾來(lái)過希維切。