Chapter 5 More hard work
第5章 更艱苦的工作
Thirty days after leaving Dawson City, the team arrived back in Skagway.
離開道桑鎮(zhèn)30天后, 隊(duì)伍回到了斯開格威。
They were very, very tired Buck now weighed only fifty kilograms, and the other dogs were also very thin.
他們筋疲力盡。巴克瘦得只剩下50公斤, 別的狗也是瘦骨伶仃。
They were not ill; they just needed a long, long rest.
他們并沒有生病, 只是需要一個(gè)長長的休息。
But at Skagway there were mountains of letters waiting to go north, so the men had to buy new, strong dogs The old ones, now useless for work, were sold.
但是在斯開格威還有堆積如山的信等著運(yùn)到北方。所以人們買了更強(qiáng)壯的狗, 以前的狗因?yàn)閷?duì)工作沒有用, 被賣掉了。
Two American men, called Hal and Charles, bought Buck and his team, together with the harness.
兩個(gè)美國人, 哈爾和查爾斯, 連同挽具買下了巴克和他的隊(duì)伍。
Charles was forty years old, with light hair and watery blue eyes.
查爾斯大約40歲左右, 淺色的頭發(fā), 有一雙水汪汪的藍(lán)眼睛。
Hal was a young man of twenty with a big shiny gun and a big knife in his belt .
哈爾20歲上下, 皮帶上別著一把閃光的大槍和一把大刀。
These things, more than anything, showed how young he was Both men were clearly new to the north, and its hard and dangerous life.
這兩樣?xùn)|西比任何東西都能顯示他的幼稚。這兩個(gè)人顯然對(duì)北方和它艱苦危險(xiǎn)的生活茫然無知。
They took the dogs back to their untidy camp, where a woman was waiting .
他們把狗帶回凌亂的帳篷, 有一個(gè)女人正等在那里。