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He counted his money. The little that remained would be enough, he hoped, to tide him over the winter.
他數了數錢，他希望剩下的幾個錢能夠讓他度過冬天。
By next spring, his garden would be producing enough to make him independent of the outside world.
到了明年春天地菜園里的產品就足夠讓他獨立于外部世界了。
Meanwhile, there would always be game.
同時，獵物總是有的。
He had seen plenty of rabbits, and there were waterfowl on the ponds.
他看見過很多兔子，池塘里還有水鳥。
He set to work at once to make a bow and arrows.
他立即開始做起弓箭來。
There were ash trees near the lighthouse and, for arrow shafts, a whole copse full of beautifully straight hazel saplings.
燈塔旁邊就有白楊樹，還有一整林子的樟木，滿是直得漂亮的枝條，是做箭桿的好材料。
He began by felling a young ash, cut out six feet of unbranched stem,
他從砍倒一株小白楊開始，砍出六尺沒有分權的樹干，
stripped off the bark and, paring by paring, shaved away the white wood, as old Mitsima had taught him,
削去樹皮，然后照老米季馬教他的樣子，削掉樹皮，一刀一刀削掉了白色的木質，削出了一根和他自己一樣高的棍子。
until he had a stave of his own height, stiff at the thickened centre, lively and quick at the slender tips.
當中粗些是為了結實，兩頭細些是為了靈活方便。
The work gave him an intense pleasure.
工作給了他極大的樂趣。
After those weeks of idleness in London, with nothing to do, whenever he wanted anything, but to press a switch or turn a handle,
他在倫敦度過了幾周游手好閑、無事可做的日子，需要什么只需按一下按鈕或是拉一拉手柄。
it was pure delight to be doing something that demanded skill and patience.
現在做起需要技巧和耐心的工作來竟純粹是一種享受了。
He had almost finished whittling the stave into shape, when he realized with a start that he was singing-singing!
他差不多把根棍子削成了弓體，忽然意識到自己唱起歌來了，吃了一驚。唱歌！
It was as though, stumbling upon himself from the outside, he had suddenly caught himself out, taken himself flagrantly at fault.
他仿佛從外面回來，突然撞上自己在干著壞事而且現場拿獲了，
Guiltily he blushed. After all, it was not to sing and enjoy himself that he had come here.
不禁慚恧得滿臉通紅。他到這兒來畢竟不是為了唱歌和享受，
It was to escape further contamination by the filth of civilized life;
而是為了不讓文明生活的垃圾繼續污染他的；
it was to be purified and made good; it was actively to make amends.
是為了清洗污穢，彌補過失，積極進行彌補的。
