評論
打印
Paul cut short his protests by buttoning his collar tightly about his throat and testing the laces of his shoes.
保羅把衣領緊緊地扣在喉嚨上，并試了試鞋帶，以此結束了他的抗議。
“I’m going,” he stated stubbornly; “and the sooner I get off, the better.”
“我這就去了，”他頑固地說道；“我越快下去越好。”
SKIING FOR HELP
滑下去尋求幫助
And go he did, with a curt farewell which astonished his companion. Back of the cabin, poised at the top of the slope, with the snow whirling around him, he had one horrible moment when he was on the point of turning back. But with a tremendous effort he fought down that feeling. He could not bear the thought of facing Bill as a coward and a quitter. An instant later a thrust of his staff sent him over the edge, to glide downward through the trees with swiftly increasing speed.
他走了，簡短地說了聲再見，使他的同伴吃了一驚。在小屋后面，雪在他周圍旋轉，他在斜坡頂上保持平衡，正要轉身，他突然感覺很害怕。但他付出了巨大的努力，才抑制住了這種感覺。一想到要把比爾看作懦夫，他就受不了。不一會兒，他的手杖一戳，他就滑下了懸崖，以越來越快的速度滑下了樹林。
Strangely enough, he felt that the worst was over. After he had successfully steered through the first hundred feet or so of woods, growing confidence in himself helped to strengthen his courage. After all, except for the blinding snow, this hill was no worse than some of the wooded slopes back there at home in Canada.
奇怪的是，他覺得最糟糕的時期已經過去了。當他成功地駕駛著船穿過一百英尺左右的樹林后，他對自己越來越有信心，這增強了他的勇氣。畢竟，除了炫目的大雪，這座山并不比加拿大境內的一些樹木繁茂的山坡差多少。
At first he managed, by a skillful use of his staff, to hold himself back a little and keep his speed within a reasonable limit. But just before he left the woods, a sudden side-turn to avoid a clump of trees nearly flung him off his balance. In struggling to recover it, the end of his staff struck against another tree and was torn instantly from his grasp. There was no stopping now. A moment later he flashed out into the open and shot down the steep incline.
起初，他巧妙地使用了工具，使自己稍稍放慢了速度，使速度保持在合理的限度內。但就在他離開樹林之前，為了避開一叢樹木，他突然側身一轉，差點失去平衡。在掙扎著要把它找回來的時候，他的杖頭撞到了另一棵樹上，立刻就被他從手里扯了下來。現在停不下來了。過了一會兒，他閃到空地上，從陡峭的斜坡上沖了下來。
