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Chapter 7 The call of the wild
第7章 野性的呼喚
In five minutes Buck had made fourteen hundred dollars for Thornton and his friends.
不過5分鐘, 巴克就為桑頓和他的朋友們賺了1400美元。
The money made it possi ble for them to travel east, where they wanted to look for a lost gold mine.
他們有足夠的錢去東部旅行, 他們想在那里尋找一座下落不明的金礦。
Men said that this mine had more gold than any other mine in the north.
人們傳說那座金礦比任何一座北方的金礦都富足。
Many had looked for it, and some had died looking for it.The only men who knew where it was were now dead.
許多人都在尋找它, 有一些人為了尋找它而命喪黃泉。那唯一知道金礦下落的人已經(jīng)死了。
Thornton, Pete and Hans, with Buck and six other dogs, started off to the east in the spring.
桑頓, 皮特和漢斯, 帶著巴克和另外6條狗, 在春天向東方啟程了。
They travelled up the Stewart River and crossed the Mackenzie Mountains.
他們渡過了斯塔沃特河, 翻過了麥肯瑟山脈。
They did not move quickly;the weather was good, and!the men shot animals for food when they needed it.
他們走的并不快。天氣很不錯(cuò)。有時(shí)人們就打點(diǎn)野味來充饑。
Sometimes they travelled for a week, and sometimes they stopped for a week and searched for gold in the ground.
有時(shí)他們連續(xù)走一星期, 有時(shí)他們會(huì)逗留一星期在地下尋找金礦。
Sometimes they were hungry, and sometimes they had lots of food.
有時(shí)他們?nèi)甜嚢ゐI, 有時(shí)又食物豐足。
They spent all the summer in the mountains, carrying everything they needed on their backs, sometimes making boats to go down rivers or across lakes.
他們?cè)谏絽^(qū)里度過了夏天, 背著所有必需品, 有時(shí)他們制造小船沿河漂流或者橫渡湖泊。
