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即使这样，我还是会让你在这之前向我屈服的！不信，咱们走着瞧。"烈格雷胸有成竹地说道。 "I shall have _help_," said Tom; "you'll never do it."" 会有人向我伸援手的，您休想让我屈服！"汤姆回答道。 "Who the devil's going to help you?" said Legree, scornfully." 你别做梦了，谁会向你伸援手呀？"烈格雷讽刺道。 "The Lord Almighty," said Tom." 上帝--万能的救世主！"汤姆肯定地说。 "D--n you!" said Legree, as with one blow of his fist he felled Tom to the earth." 他妈的，你去死吧！"烈格雷一拳把汤姆打倒在地上，怒斥道。 
恰巧这个时候，一只冰冷、柔软的手轻轻地搭在烈格雷的肩上。他调转头去，是卡西，看见她情不自禁地又想起了前天晚上做的那个恶梦，脑海里再次呈现出那个令他恐怖惊慌的场面，一群恶鬼，那棵枯树，悬崖和卡西推他的双手，还有那位罩着面纱的奇怪女人。这些都让烈格雷感到由衷地心悸。 "Will you be a fool?" said Cassy, in French. "Let him go! Let me alone to get him fit to be in the field again. Isn't it just as I told you?"" 为什么要惹他，你真是个大笨蛋！"卡西用法语对他说，"先前我是怎么跟你说的呢？没错吧！他是不会向你认错的，打死他也没用。现在，让我一个人来照顾他吧！使他早日康复，再回到地里帮你干活。" They say the alligator, the rhinoceros, though enclosed in bullet-proof mail, have each a spot where they are vulnerable; and fierce, reckless, unbelieving reprobates, have commonly this point in superstitious dread. 传说，水里游的鳄鱼和陆地行走的犀牛身上都披有一层厚厚的盔甲--保护自己，盔甲刀枪不入，但它们身上却有一个致命的缺点，那是敌人容易攻击它们的地方。而烈格雷也跟其它残酷无情、不敬神灵的人一样有他的致命的弱点。他们对所有的妖魔鬼怪都有着莫名的恐惧和惊慌。 Legree turned away, determined to let the point go for the time. 烈格雷转身走了过去，他已经决定暂时不管这件事情。 "Well, have it your own way," he said, doggedly, to Cassy." 好的，我就照你说的那样去做吧。"他很不情愿地说。 
汤姆，你给我好好听着，"他气呼呼地说，"现在正是农忙季节，人手不够，所以我就暂且饶了你。听着！绝对不是放过你，我会记着这笔账。等秋收过后，再在你这张欠揍的黑皮身上讨还。我劝你最好放聪明点。" Legree turned, and went out. 说完烈格雷就转身走了出去。 "There you go," said Cassy, looking darkly after him; "your reckoning's to come, yet!--My poor fellow, how are you?"" 没想到你还会给他来这套，这次算你幸运，我可怜的朋友，总有一天他会找你算老账的。现在你的伤口感觉好点了吗？"卡西关心地问道。 "The Lord God hath sent his angel, and shut the lion's mouth, for this time," said Tom." 上帝，感谢你使我逃脱了这次灾难，是你派来了天使封住了狮子的嘴。"汤姆执拗地说。 "For this time, to be sure," said Cassy; "but now you've got his ill will upon you, to follow you day in, day out, hanging like a dog on your throat,--sucking your blood, bleeding away your life, drop by drop. I know the man."" 对，这次算你幸运，虽然现在灾难没有再次降临到你的头上，但你已经惹他恨了。这种恨意不会消失，它会像吸血虫一样附在你的血脉里，一点一点地吸你的血，让你慢慢在忧郁中死去。我对他了解得太清楚了。"卡西说完这些，终于垂下了头。 
不管人们是如何慎重地把他捧到圣坛的位置上，一旦他踏入英国--神圣的国土，信仰连同圣坛都会从尘埃中坠落；但他依然会坚固地站在那儿，直到世界上不可抵抗的解放浪潮得以释放、民主和自由"。--柯伦 A while we must leave Tom in the hands of his persecutors, while we turn to pursue the fortunes of George and his wife, whom we left in friendly hands, in a farmhouse on the road-side. 这时大家迫不得已才把汤姆丢在伤害他的人那儿，接着又前去追赶乔治夫妇。我们上回谈到他们在不远的一家农舍里，被那儿一些好心的村民们关照着。 Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison. 刚刚在前文的末尾部分我们谈到汤姆·洛科时，他正躺在教友派教徒的床铺上呻吟，翻来覆去。善良的多卡尔丝大婶像母亲般体贴照顾着他，这时她已深刻体会到这位病人就像一头发疯的野牛，难以驯服。 Imagine a tall, dignified, spiritual woman, whose clear muslin cap shades waves of silvery hair, parted on a broad, clear forehead, which overarches thoughtful gray eyes. A snowy handkerchief of lisse crape is folded neatly across her bosom; her glossy brown silk dress rustles peacefully, as she glides up and down the chamber. 再去想象这样一位身材突出、端庄文雅和相貌出众的女人吧。她那银色的卷发匀称地分梳两边，头上戴着一顶洁白平纹丝帽，露出宽宽的额头，白净细嫩；一双圆溜溜的褐色眼睛是那么的有神又是那么的温存。在她的胸前还别着一方雪白的绉纱手帕，折得平平整整。当她就在房间中来回走动的时候，那白色丝绸同她的衣服摩擦发出窸窸啦啦的小声音。 "The devil!" says Tom Loker, giving a great throw to the bedclothes." 要命！"汤姆·洛科大声地吼道，被子被他一脚给蹬开了。 
托马斯，我希望你以后别再用这种口气说话。"多卡尔丝大婶一边小心地为他重新盖好被子，一边说着。 "Well, I won't, granny, if I can help it," says Tom; "but it is enough to make a fellow swear,--so cursedly hot!"Dorcas removed a comforter from the bed, straightened the clothes again, and tucked them in till Tom looked something like a chrysalis; remarking, as she did so," 是啊，好心的老妈妈。如果我能克制住自己，那我肯定不再这么说了，"汤姆说道，"在这种鬼天气里，真是热死人了，谁还能怪我大声咒骂呢？"这时多卡尔丝重新拾起那床被子，接着又把它盖到汤姆身上，用被子掖得丝毫不能透风，汤姆此时的模样就像一只被屈服的小羔羊，就这样被结结实实地裹着。多卡尔丝大婶在一边熟练地操作这些事情，一边大声地说道： "I wish, friend, thee would leave off cursing and swearing, and think upon thy ways."" 亲爱的，我叫你不要再这样地怨天尤人，请反省反省你的待人方式吧！你应该文明一点才是。" "What the devil," said Tom, "should I think of _them_ for? Last thing ever _I_ want to think of--hang it all!" And Tom flounced over, untucking and disarranging everything, in a manner frightful to behold." 真有病！为什么我要去想这些呢？我才不要去想那些无聊的事一一见鬼去吧！最好给我滚得远远的！"汤姆又继续在床上不停的乱踢，把床上的被子、被单弄得乱七八糟。 "That fellow and gal are here, I 'spose," said he, sullenly, after a pause." 据我估计那些男的和女的都在这里吧？"他叹了一口气，十分不情愿地大声问道。 
他们仍然在这里，"多卡尔丝说道。 "They'd better be off up to the lake," said Tom; "the quicker the better."" 最好叫他们赶快出发到湖边去，"汤姆吩咐道，"以最快的速度赶到当然是最好不过了。" "Probably they will do so," said Aunt Dorcas, knitting peacefully. 多卡尔丝大婶静静地在一旁织着她手中的毛衣，用十分柔和的语气说："也许他们会这么做的吧。" "And hark ye," said Tom; "we've got correspondents in Sandusky, that watch the boats for us. I don't care if I tell, now. I hope they _will_ get away, just to spite Marks,--the cursed puppy!--d--n him!"" 你给我听着，"汤姆愤怒地说道，"在桑达斯基那儿有我们的代理人，他们替我们监视着在那边开往加拿大的船只。现在就算把一切事情全部给抖出来，我也不会在乎。我祈祷他们能够逃离魔爪，气死马克斯那个混蛋，那个该死的猪猡！让他见阎王爷去吧！" "Thomas!" said Dorcas." 托马斯！"多卡尔丝愤怒地喊道。 
大慈大悲的老妈妈，请你先听我说。如果再这样下去的话，我肯定会发疯的，"汤姆说道，"对于那个女的，你把她带出去化化妆，改变一下形象。她的那画像现在已送到桑达斯基那儿去了。" "We will attend to that matter," said Dorcas, with characteristic composure." 我们会小心的。"多卡尔丝不慌不忙十分稳妥地说。
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