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Then he ran for his life. The hounds raised their voices as they hit the fresh scent.
然后拼命跑開。獵狗聞出了新鮮氣味，叫得更起勁了。
The baying of the hounds stopped abruptly, and Rainsford's heart stopped too. He shinned excitedly up a tree and looked back. His pursuers had stopped. But the hope that was in his brain died, for he saw in the shallow valley that General Zaroff was still on his feet. But Ivan was not. The knife, driven by the recoil of the springing tree had not wholly failed.
獵狗的叫聲突然停了下來，雷恩斯福德的心跳也隨之停止了。他激動地爬上一棵樹，回頭張望。追他的人停下了腳步，但是他的希望落了空，因為他看見扎洛夫將軍仍然站在淺谷中。可是伊萬卻不見了，隨著樹的彈力射出的獵刀，并不是完全沒有用。
Rainsford had hardly tumbled to the ground when the pack took up the cry again. "Nerve, nerve, nerve!" he panted, as he dashed along. A blue gap showed between the trees dead ahead. Ever nearer drew the hounds. Rainsford forced himself on toward the gap. He reached it. It was the shore of the sea. Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau. Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea...
雷恩斯福德幾乎剛跳到地上，獵狗們又狂叫起來。“要鎮靜，別慌！”他喘著氣向前撒腿狂奔。正前方的樹林縫隙中露出了一條藍色的豁口，獵狗離他越來越近了。雷恩斯福德強迫自己繼續向豁口那邊跑去。他終于到了，原來那是海邊。隔著海灣他可以看到對面城堡的暗灰色石墻。在他腳下20英尺處是波濤洶涌的大海。雷恩斯福德猶豫著。他聽到了獵狗的叫聲，便縱身躍入大海中……
When the general and his pack reached the place by the sea, the Cossack stopped. For some minutes he stood regarding the blue green expanse of water. He shrugged his shoulders. Then he sat down, took a drink of brandy from a silver flask, lit a perfumed cigarette, and hummed a bit from Madame Butterfly. General Zaroff had an exceedingly good dinner that evening. Two slight annoyances kept him from perfect enjoyment. One was the thought that it would be difficult to replace Ivan; the other was that his quarry had escaped.
當將軍和那群獵狗趕到海邊時，這位哥薩克人站住了。對著那片碧綠色的海水觀望了一陣。他聳了聳肩膀，然后坐下來，從銀質的酒瓶中喝了一口白蘭地，點燃一支香煙，哼起《蝴蝶夫人》中的曲子來。當天晚上，扎洛夫將軍吃得格外豐盛。只是有兩件小小的不快讓他沒能盡興，一件是想到找人代替伊萬的位置并非易事；另一件是獵物沒有到手。
