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He stood for a little while thus looking and listening.
湯姆在想是怎么回事，他們要干什么，他站在那里觀看和聆聽了一會。
He could see nothing, and could hear only the sound of distant talking.
他什么都看不到，只聽到遠處人們的談話聲。
What were they doing on the lonely shore thus at night? Then he suddenly turned
他們在這樣的夜色，在這樣的荒涼海灣做什么？他突然轉過身，
and cut off across the sand hillocks, but kept pretty close to the shore, his object being to spy upon them,
他穿越了沙丘，但離海岸非常近，他的目標是監視他們，
and to watch what they were about from the back of the low sand hills that fronted the beach.
看看他們在小沙丘后面在干什么，這片沙丘前面就是沙灘。
He had gone along some distance when he became aware of the sound of voices that seemed to be drawing closer to him
他徑直走了很長的路，突然他發現聲音離他越來越近了，
as he came toward the speakers. He stopped and stood listening, and instantly, as he stopped,
他正在向說話者走去，他站住，停下來聆聽，但就在他停住的那剎那，
the voices stopped also. He crouched there silently in the glimmering moonlight, surrounded by the silent stretches of sand,
聲音也靜止了，他在皎潔的月光下安靜地蹲下，周圍是安靜的沙灘，
and the stillness seemed to press upon him like a heavy hand. Then suddenly the sound of a man's voice began again,
寂靜像一只沉重的手一樣壓著他，突然一名男性的聲音再次開始，
and as Tom listened he could hear someone counting. Ninety-one, the voice began, ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-five,
湯姆聽到有人在算數，91，聲音開始響起，92，93，94，95，
ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred, one hundred and one,
96，97，98，99，100，101，
the slow monotonous count coming nearer and nearer; one hundred and two, one hundred and three, one hundred and four, and so on.
緩慢單調的數數聲越來越近，102，103，104等等。
Suddenly he saw three heads appear above the sand hill, so I close to him that he crouched down quickly with a keen thrill,
突然，他看到沙丘上出現了三顆頭，我靠近他，他激動地快速蹲下身，
close beside the hillock near which he stood. His first fear was that they might have seen him in the moonlight;
站在了靠近他站立的山丘旁邊，他最先害怕的是他們或許已經在月光下看到他了；
but they had not, and his heart rose again as the counting voice went steadily on. One hundred and twenty,
但他們沒有，就在數數聲平緩前進時，他的心蹦蹦直跳，120，
it was saying, and twenty-one and twenty-two, and twenty-three, and twenty-four,
數數聲繼續，21和22，23和24，
and then he who was counting came out from behind the little sandy hill into the shimmering brightness.
數數的這名男子從后面的沙丘上出來，進入了閃爍的光亮中。
It was the man with the cane whom Tom had seen some time before, the captain of the party who had landed.
這名拿著手杖的男子是湯姆之前看到過的，是這個派對的首領。
He carried his cane under his arm now. He was holding his lantern close to something that he held in his hand,
他如今將手杖放在腋下，他手里的燈籠靠近他手里拿著的東西，
upon which he looked closely as he walked slowly in a perfect straight line across the sand,
他在沙灘上徑直緩慢走著，同時他仔細端詳著手里的東西，
counting each step as he took it. And twenty-five, and twenty-six, and twenty-seven, and twenty-eight, and twenty-nine, and thirty.
算著他走的每一步，25，26，27，28，29，30。
