《牛津书虫系列 汤姆索亚历险记》电子插画版英语教学课外读物(含翻译)
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《牛津书虫系列
汤姆索亚历险记》电子版英语教学
课外读物（含翻译）
and his friends
'Tom! Tom! Where are you?'
No answer.
'Where is that
boy? When I find him, I'm going to...'
Aunt Polly looked under the bed. Then
she opened the door
and looked out into
the garden.
'Tom!'
She heard
something behind her. A small boy ran past, but
Aunt Polly put out her hand and stopped
him.
'Ah, there you are! And what's
that in your pocket?'
'Nothing, Aunt
Polly.'
'Nothing! It's an apple! I can
see it. Now listen, Tom.
Those apples
are not for you, and I -'
'Oh, Aunt
Polly! Quick - look behind you!'
- 1 -
So Aunt Polly looked, and
Tom was out of the house in a
second.
She laughed quietly. 'I never learn. I love that
Tom,
my
dead
sister's
child,
but
he
isn't
an
easy
boy
for
an
old
lady.
Well,
it's
Saturday
tomorrow
and
there's
no
school,
but
it
isn't
going to be a holiday
for Tom. Oh no! He's going to work
tomorrow!'
*
*
*
Saturday
was
a
beautiful
day.
It
was
summer
and
the
sun
was
hot
and
there
were
flowers
in
all
the
gardens.
It
was
a
day
for
everybody
to be happy.
Tom
came
out
of
his
house
with
a
brush
and
a
big
pot
of
white
paint in his hand. He
looked at the fence; it was three metres
high and thirty metres long. He put his
brush in the paint and
painted
some
of
the
fence.
He
did
it
again.
Then
he
stopped
and
looked
at
the
fence,
put
down
his
brush
and
sat
down.
There
were
hours of work in front
of him and he was the unhappiest boy in
the village.
- 2 -
After
ten
minutes
Tom
had
an
idea,
a
wonderful
idea.
He
took
up
the
brush
again
and
began
work.
He
saw
his
friend
Joe
Harper
in the street, but he didn't look at
him. Joe had an apple in
his hand. He
came up to Tom and looked at the fence.
- 3 -
'I am sorry,
Tom.'
Tom said nothing. The paint brush
moved up and down.
'Working for your
aunt?' said Joe. 'I'm going down to the
river. I'm sorry you can't come with
me.'
Tom put down his brush. 'You call
this work?' he said.
'Painting a
fence?' said Joe. 'Of course it's work!'
'Perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't.
But I like it,' said
Tom.
'I
can
go
to
the
river
any
day.
I can't
paint
a
fence
very
often.'
Joe
watched Tom for about five minutes. Tom painted
very
slowly and carefully. He often
stopped, moved back from the
fence
and
looked
at
his
work
with
a
smile.
Joe
began
to
get
very
interested, and said:
'Tom, can I paint a little?'
Tom
thought
for
a
second.
'I'm
sorry,
Joe.
You
see,
my
aunt
wants me to do it because I'm good at
painting. My brother Sid
wanted to
paint, too, but she said no.'
- 4 -
'Oh,
please,
Tom,
just
a
little.
I'm
good
at
painting,
too.
Hey, do you want some of my apple?'
'No, Joe, I can't -'
'OK,
you can have all my apple!'
Tom
gave
Joe
the
brush.
He
did
not
smile,
but
for
the
first
time
that
day
he
was
a
very
happy
boy.
He
sat
down
and
ate
Joe's
apple.
More
friends
came
to
laugh
at
Tom,
but
soon
they
all
wanted
to
paint,
too.
By
the
afternoon
Tom
had
three
balls,
an
old
knife,
a cat with one eye, an old blue bottle,
and a lot of other
exciting things. He
was the richest boy in St Petersburg, and
the fence - all thirty metres of it -
was a beautiful white.
He went back to
the house.
'Aunt Polly! Can I go and
play now?'
Aunt Polly came out of the
house to look. When she saw the
beautiful
white
fence,
she
was
very
pleased.
She
took
Tom
into
the house and gave him an apple.
'Well, you can go and play. But don't
come home late.'
- 5 -
Tom quickly took a second apple and ran
off.
*
*
*
On
Monday
morning
Tom
didn't
want
to
go
to
school,
but
Aunt
Polly
got
him
out
of
bed,
and
then
out
of
the
house.
In
the
street
near the school he met his friend
Huckleberry Finn. Huck had
no mother,
and his father drank whiskey all the time, so Huck
lived
in
the
streets.
He
didn't
go
to
school,
he
was
always
dirty,
and
he never had a new shirt. But he was happy. The
mothers of
St Petersburg didn't like
Huck, but Tom and his friends did.
'Hello, Huck!' said Tom. 'What have you
got there?'
'A dead cat.'
'What're you going to do with it?'
asked Tom.
'I'm
going
to
take
it
to
the
graveyard
tonight,'
Huck
said.
'At midnight. A
dead
cat
can call
ghosts
out
of
their
graves.'
'I
never heard that,' said Tom. 'Is it true?'
'Well,
I
don't
know,'
said
Huck.
'Old
Mrs
Hopkins
told
me.
Come
with me, and see. Or are you afraid of ghosts?'
- 6 -
'Of
course
not!'
said
Tom.
'Come
and
meow
for
me
at
my
window
at eleven o'clock.'
After
this,
Tom
was
late
for
school,
and
the
teacher
looked
at
him angrily.
-
7 -
'Thomas
Sawyer, why are you late again?' he said.
Tom began
to
speak,
and
then
stopped.
There was
a
new
girl
in the
schoolroom - a beautiful girl with blue eyes and
long
yellow hair. Tom looked and
looked.
Oh, how beautiful she was! And
in two seconds Tom was in
love! He must
sit next to her. But how?
In
the
girls'
half
of
the
room
there
was
only
one
empty
chair,
and it was next to the new girl. Tom
thought quickly, and then
looked at the
teacher.
'I stopped to talk with
Huckleberry Finn!' he said.
The
teacher
was
very,
very
angry.
Boys
were
often
late
for
school. That was bad,
but talking with Huckleberry Finn was
worse,
much
worse!
The
teacher
took
his
stick,
and
two
minutes
later Tom's trousers
were very hot and the teacher's arm was
very tired.
'Now, Tom
Sawyer, you go and sit with the girls!'
Some
of
the
children
laughed.
Tom
walked
to
the
chair
next
to
the
new
girl,
sat
down
and
opened
his
book.
The
other
children
began to work
again.
- 8 -
After ten
minutes, the girl looked up. There was an apple
on the table in front of her. She put
it back on Tom's half of
the table. A
minute later the apple was in front of her again.
Now it stayed. Next, Tom drew a picture
of a house and put it
in front of her.
'That's nice,' the girl
said. 'Now draw a man.'
- 9 -
Tom drew a man next to the house. The
man was taller than
the house, and he
had very big hands and very long legs. But
the girl liked him.
'Can you
draw me now?' she asked.
Tom drew a
girl next to the man.
'You draw
beautifully. I can't draw pictures.'
'I
can teach you,' said Tom. 'After school.'
'Oh, please!'
'What's your
name?' Tom asked.
'Becky. Becky
Thatcher.'
Just then Tom felt a hand on
his head. It was the teacher.
He took
Tom by the ear and moved him back to his chair in
the
boys' half of the room.
- 10 -
词汇
aunt n. the sister of your mother or
father
姨母
;
姑母
pocket
n.
a
small
bag
sewn
into
or
on
clothing,
for
carrying
small articles
口袋
in a second in
a very short period of time
片刻
;
瞬间
holiday n. a day or a period when no
work needs to be done
假日
;
休息日
brush n. an object used for painting,
cleaning, etc.
刷
子
fence n. usually a wood or wire barrier
enclosing an area
栅栏
be good at to be skillful at something
or doing something
擅长做某事
laugh
at
to
treat
someone
or
something
as
if
they
are
stupid,
by laughing and making funny remarks
about them
嘲笑
;
取笑
run off to suddenly leave a place or
person
逃跑
- 11 -
whiskey n. a strong
alcoholic drink
威士忌
ghost n. supposed apparition of a dead
person or animal;
disembodied spirit
鬼
;
幽灵
meow v. to make the crying sound a cat
makes
喵喵叫
empty
adj. with nothing in it
空的
stick n. a short slender length of wood
枝条
;
棍
;<
/p>
棒
in front of
ahead of; before
在前面
- 12 -
翻译
1.
汤姆和他的伙伴们
汤姆，汤姆，你在哪儿
?
没
有人回答。
这小鬼又跑哪儿去了，等
我找到他，我要
......
波莉姨妈看了看床下，然后打开房
门向花园望去。
汤姆
!
她听到身后有动静。
一个小男孩儿正要跑过，
但是波莉姨妈伸出
手把他拦住。
哈，你在这儿
!
你的口袋
里是什么
?
什么都没有啊，波莉姨妈。
没有
!
那是个苹果
!
我看见了。现在听着，汤姆。这
些苹果不是
给你的，我要
--
哎，波莉姨妈
!
快
--
看你后面
!
- 13 -
< br>波莉姨妈看了一下，汤姆一转眼就跑出了屋子。她轻轻地笑了。
< br>我又没长记性。我爱汤姆，我那死去的姐姐的孩子，但是我这个老
太婆管不住他。
明天是星期六，
不用上学，
但是汤姆不
能放假。
噢不
!
他明天可得要干活儿<
/p>
!
*
*
*
星
期六天气不错。夏天到了，艳阳高照，花园里繁花似锦。这是
个人人都应该开心的好日子
。
汤姆拿着一把刷子和一大桶白油漆从屋里走出来。他看着栅
栏，
栅栏足足有
3
米高、
30
米长。他把刷子蘸上油漆，开始刷栅栏，然
后照
旧这般。
接着，
他停了下来，
看了看栅
栏，
放下刷子，
坐了下来。
他面前是好
几个小时的工作呢，他是村庄里最不快乐的男孩儿了。
十分钟
后，汤姆想出了一个主意，一个绝妙的主意。他重新把刷
子拿起来，开始工作。他看到他
的朋友乔·哈珀在街上，但是不去看
他。乔手上拿着一个苹果。他走到汤姆面前，看着栅
栏。
我真为你难过，汤姆。
汤姆不说话，拿着刷子刷上刷下。
- 14 -
帮你姨妈
干活儿呢
?
乔问道，
< br>我要去河边。
真可惜你不能和我
一起去。
汤姆放下刷子。
你管这叫干活
儿
?
他说。
刷栅栏
?
乔说，
当然是干活儿啦
!
< br>也许是，也许不是。但是我喜欢。
汤姆说，
我哪天去河边都
成，但并不总是有机会刷栅栏啊。<
/p>
乔盯着汤姆看了差不多有五分钟。汤姆非常认真地慢慢刷着油
漆。他时不时停下来，后退两步，看着自己的杰作微笑。乔开始感兴
趣了，他问道：
汤姆，我能刷一会儿
吗
?
汤姆想了一下。
< br>对不起，乔。你知道吗，我姨妈让我来干这活
儿是因为我刷得好。我弟弟锡德也想
刷呢，但她不同意。
哦，求求你，汤姆
，就一点儿成吗
?
我也刷得挺好的。嗨，你想
< br>来点儿我的苹果吗
?
不行，乔，
我不能
--
好吧，我把整个苹果都给你
!
汤姆把刷子递给乔。他没有笑，但那是他那天第一次非常开心
。
他坐了下来，吃着乔的苹果。
- 15 -
更多的伙伴过来嘲笑汤姆，
但不久他
们就都想要刷油漆了。
到下
午时，汤姆已经有了三个球、一把旧
的小刀、一只独眼猫、一个旧的
蓝瓶子和其他许多稀奇玩意儿。
现在他是圣彼得斯堡最富有的男孩儿
了，而那道栅栏
--
整整
30
米长的栅栏
--
被涂上了美丽的白色。他走
回屋子。
波莉姨妈
!
现在我能出去玩了吗
?
波莉姨妈走出屋来检查，
当她看到漂亮的白色栅栏时，
非常满意。
她把汤姆带
回屋里，给了他一个苹果。
好，你现
在可以去玩了，但是别回来得太晚。
汤姆飞快地又拿了一个苹果
，跑出去了。
*
*
*
星期一的早上，
汤姆不想去上学，但是波莉姨妈把他揪下床，丢
出了门。在学校附近的街上，他遇到了好朋友哈克贝利·费恩。哈克
没有母亲，父亲成天喝酒，所以哈克就露宿街头了。他不上学，总是
脏兮兮的，从来
没穿过新衣服，但是他很快乐。圣彼得斯堡的妈妈们
不喜欢他，但是汤姆和伙伴们都喜欢
他。
你好啊，哈克
< br>!
汤姆说，
你那是弄了个什么<
/p>
?
- 16
-
一只
死猫。
你要把它怎么样
?
汤姆问。
我打算今晚把它拿到坟场去。
哈克说，
在午夜的时候，一只
死猫能把坟墓里的鬼魂召出来。<
/p>
我从来没听说过。
汤姆说，
是真的吗
< br>?
哦，我不知道。
哈克说，
是老霍普金斯太太告诉我的。跟我
来看看吧，你就能知道了。你不会害怕鬼吧
?
<
/p>
当然不
!
汤姆说，
点钟到我窗口学猫叫叫我。
这之后，
汤姆上学迟到了，老师生气地看着他。
托马斯·索亚，你怎么又迟到了
?
他说。
汤姆开始讲话，
然而又停住了。
教室里有个新来的女生
--
一个有
着蓝
眼睛、黄色长发的漂亮女孩子。汤姆打量个不停。
哦，
她长得多漂亮啊
!
短短两秒钟内，
汤姆恋爱了
!
他必须坐在她
旁边。但怎么做呢
?
在女生坐的那半边教室，
只有一个空座位，
就在那个新来女孩儿
旁边。汤姆的
脑筋转得飞快，然后他看着老师。
我
停下来和哈克贝利·费恩聊天了
!
他说。
- 17 -
老师非常非常气愤。男孩子上学经
常迟到，这当然不对，但是和
哈克贝利·费恩讲话就更有错，大错特错
< br>!
老师拿起了教鞭，两分钟
后，汤姆的裤子都热辣辣的了
，老师的胳膊也累得打不动了。
现在
，汤姆·索亚，你去和女生坐在一起。
有几个孩子笑了起来。<
/p>
汤姆走到新来的女生旁边的座位，
坐下来，
把书打开。其他的孩子也重新开始学习。
十分钟后，那女孩
儿抬起头。她面前的桌上多了个苹果。她把苹
果放回汤姆那边的桌上。很快，苹果又出现
在她面前。这一次苹果没
被推回去。接下来，汤姆画了一座房子，摆在她面前。
画得真好。
女孩儿说，
再画个男人吧。
汤姆在房子旁边画了个男人，人比房子还高，两手大大，双腿长
长，但是那女孩儿喜欢。
你能画
个我吗
?
她问。
汤姆在男人的旁边加上那女孩儿。
<
/p>
你画得真漂亮，我就不会画画。
我教你吧。
汤姆说，
<
/p>
等放了学。
噢，
好啊
!
-
18 -
你叫什么名字
?
汤姆问。
贝姬，贝姬·撒切尔。
就在这时，汤姆感觉到一只手落到他头上，是老师的手
!
他拧着
汤姆的耳朵，把他拖回到了男生那半边他自己的座位上。
- 19 -
the graveyard
That
night
Tom
went
to
bed
at
half
past
nine.
He
waited
for
Huck's
meow,
and
at
eleven
o'clock
it
came.
He
climbed
quietly
out of the bedroom
window, and then he and Huck walked out of
the village with the dead cat.
-
20 -
The
graveyard
was
on
a
hill,
about
a
mile
from
St
Petersburg.
When the boys got there, they put the
dead cat on a grave, and
sat down
behind some trees. They watched, and waited. It
was
very dark, and very quiet.
'Do
you
see
that
new
grave
there?'
whispered
Huck.
'That's
Hoss Williams' grave. He died last
week.'
'Perhaps
he
can
hear
us,'
Tom
whispered
back.
'Do
you
think
he can, Huck?'
'I don't know, but I - '
'Sh!'
'Oh, Tom, what is it?'
'Sh!' whispered Tom. 'I can see
something. Look!'
Huck
moved
nearer
to
Tom.
'Ghosts!'
he
said.
'Three
of
them!
They're coming here,
Tom! Oh, let's go home!'
'They can't
see us,' Tom whispered. 'Not here.'
'Ghosts
can
see
through
trees,'
said
Huck
unhappily.
'They
can see through everything!'
- 21 -
The ghosts
moved quietly through the graveyard and came
nearer to the trees. Huck and Tom
watched, very afraid. Then,
after a
minute, Huck said:
'Tom! They're not
ghosts. That's Muff Potter.'
'So
it
is.
And
that's
Injun
Joe.
And
the
other
man
is
Doctor
Robinson. What are they doing here?'
'They're graverobbers, Tom! They're
going to rob a grave!
My father told me
about it. The doctor wants a dead body, you
see. He cuts it up because he wants to
learn about -'
'Sh!' said Tom. 'They're
getting near.'
The
three
men
stopped
at
Hoss
Williams'
grave
and
Injun
Joe
and Muff Potter began to
dig. Ten minutes later the grave was
open.
'Now, doctor,' said
Muff Potter. 'You want us to take the
body to your house? That's five dollars
more.'
'No!'
said
the
doctor.
'I
gave
you
the
money
this
morning.
I'm not giving you
any more!'
- 22
-
'Now
you
listen
to
me,
doctor!'
said
Injun
Joe.
'I
want
that
money!
Do
you
remember
a
day
five
years
ago?
I
came
to
your
house
and
asked
for
something
to
eat.
And
you
gave
me
nothing.
Nothing!
So give me that
money!'
He
took
the
doctor's
arm,
but
suddenly
the
doctor
hit
him,
and Injun Joe fell to the ground.
'Don't
hit
my
friend!'
cried
Muff
Potter.
He
jumped
on
the
doctor and the two men began to fight.
It
all
happened
very
quickly,
and
the
two
boys
watched
with
open
mouths. Injun Joe got up. He had Muff Potter's
knife in
his hand now, and he moved
behind the doctor. Then the doctor
hit
Muff Potter on the head. Muff fell to the ground,
and at
the same moment the knife in
Injun Joe's hand went into the
doctor's
back. The doctor fell to the ground, on top of
Muff
Potter, and he did not move again.
The
two
boys
could
watch
no
more.
Very
quietly,
they
moved
away
from
the
trees,
and
then
ran
out
of
the
graveyard
and
back
to the
village.
Injun
Joe
stood
by
Hoss
Williams'
grave
and
looked
down
at
the two men. Then he put
the knife into Muff Potter's hand and
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sat down. Three - four -
five minutes went by. Potter moved a
little and opened his eyes.
'What - what happened, Joe?' he asked.
'This is bad, Muff,' said Joe. 'Why did
you kill him?'
Muff looked at the
doctor's dead body, then at the knife
in
his
hand.
'Me?
Did
I
kill
him?'
His
face
went
white,
and
the
knife
fell
from
his
hand.
'It's
the
whiskey,
Joe!
I
never
fight
with
knives usually. Oh, why did I drink all that
whiskey
tonight? I don't remember
anything!'
'It's OK, Muff,' said Joe.
'I'm not going to tell anyone.
You get
away quickly. Go on - go now!'
Muff
Potter
got
up
and
ran
away.
Joe
watched
him
for
a
minute,
then
he
carefully
put
the
knife
next
to
the
doctor's
body.
Then
he, too, left the
graveyard.
*
*
*
The next day
the Sheriff's men found the doctor's body in
the graveyard - and Muff Potter's
knife. That night Muff came
to the
graveyard to get his knife. But the Sheriff's men
were
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there, and they
took Muff to St Petersburg's little jail. And
there Muff sat for four weeks, and
waited for his trial.
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*
*
*
Tom
and
Huck
could
not
forget
that
night
in
the
graveyard.
They were very unhappy, and very
afraid.
'What're
we
going
to
do?'
said
Tom.
'Muff
Potter
didn't
kill
the doctor - Injun Joe
did. We saw him!'
'I know,' Huck said.
'But what can we do? We can't tell
anyone. I'm afraid of Injun Joe. He's
dangerous. And he's a
killer. Do you
want a knife in your back?'
'Yes, I'm
afraid of him, too,' Tom said. He thought for a
minute.
'I'm
sorry
for
Muff
Potter,
but
you're
right,
Huck.
We
can't
tell anyone about Injun Joe.'
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词汇
whisper v. to talk very quietly
小声地说，耳语
graverobber n. people who rob a grave
盗墓者
dig v. to
make a hole in the ground or move earth
挖
fight v. if
people or animals, fight, they hit, kick, or
bite each other
打架
go by to pass
过去
sheriff n. the
person in charge of the law and the police
in an American town (
美国
)
地方治安官
jail
n. prison; a place where prisoners are kept
监狱
trial n. the
time when judges and other people decide who
is, or is not, a robber, a murderer,
etc.
审讯
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翻译
2.
坟场命案
那天晚上，汤姆在
9
点半上了床，等着哈克来叫他。
11
点钟时，
哈克来了。
汤姆悄悄地从卧室窗户爬出去，
然后和哈克带着死猫出了
村庄
。
坟场在一座小山上，
离圣彼得斯堡
大概一英里。
两个男孩儿到达
之后，把死猫放在一个坟头上，坐
在树丛后面边看边等。四周黑漆漆
的，非常安静。
你看到那个新坟了吗
?
哈
克小声说，
那是霍斯·威廉斯的坟。
他
上星期死的。
也许他能听到我们。
汤姆也小声回应，
你觉得他能吗，
哈克
?
我不知道，但是我
--
嘘
!
哎呀，汤姆，那是什么
< br>?
嘘
!
汤姆低声说，
我看见有东西。看
!
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哈克朝汤姆挪近了些。
是鬼
!
他说，
有三个呢
!
它们过来了，
汤姆
!
呃，我们回家吧
!
它们看不到我们。
汤姆低声说，
在这儿看不到。
< br>
鬼能够看穿树。
哈克不高兴地说，
它们能看穿一切
!
几个鬼静悄悄地穿过坟场，
来到树丛附近。
哈克和汤姆心惊胆战
地看着他们，过了一会儿，哈克说：
汤姆
!
那不是鬼。那是穆夫·波特。
是他，还
有印江·乔。另外那个人是鲁宾逊医生。他们在这儿
干吗
?
他们是盗墓贼，汤姆
!
他们是来盗墓的
!
我爸爸告诉过我。这个
< br>医生想要一具尸体，
你明白了吧。
他要把尸体剖开，
因为他想知道
--
嘘
!
汤姆说，
他们走近了。
三个人在霍斯·威廉斯的墓前停下，
印江·乔和穆夫·波特开始
挖掘。十分钟后，墓被挖开了。
< br>
好了，医生，
穆夫·波特说道，
你想让我们帮你把尸体抬到
家
?
再加五块钱吧。
<
/p>
不行
!
医生说，
我早上给过你钱，不会再给了
!
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现在听我说，医生
< br>!
印江·乔说道，
我要那钱
!
你还记得五年
前的一天吧
?
我到你家里讨口饭吃，你什么都没给我。什么都没给
!
还是给钱吧
!
他抓住医生的胳膊，但
是医生猛地给了他一拳，他摔倒在地上。
你敢打我的哥们儿
!
穆夫·波特大叫。他扑向医生，两个人
扭
打起来。
一切发生得太快。
两个男孩儿张大了嘴看着。
印江·乔站了起来，
来到医生的背后，他手上拿着穆夫·波特的刀。这时，医生一拳打中
穆夫·波特的头。
穆夫倒在地上。与此同时，印江·乔手上的刀插进
了医生的后背。
医生倒了下去，
倒在穆夫·波特的身上，
再也不动了。
两个男孩儿不敢再看下去了，
他们小心翼翼
地离开树丛，
然后一
口气跑出坟场，回到村庄。
印江·乔站在霍斯·威廉斯的墓旁，
低头看着那两个
家伙，
然后
他把刀放到穆夫·波特手里，
坐下来。
三分钟
--
四分钟
--
五分钟过去
了，波特动了动，睁开了眼睛。
怎么了
--
发生了什么，乔
?
他问道。
太糟糕啦，穆夫。
乔说，
你怎么把他给杀啦
< br>?
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穆夫看着医生的尸体，
又看看手里的刀。
我
?<
/p>
我杀了他
?
他的脸
变得惨白，刀从手上滑落下来。
都是威士忌害的，乔
!
一般我打架从
来不用刀啊。唉，今天晚上我干
吗喝那么多威士忌
?
我什么都不记得
了
!
别紧张，穆夫。
乔说，
我不会告诉任何人，你快跑
吧。走
--
现在就走
!
穆夫·波特站起身来，逃走了。乔盯着他看了一阵，然后小心地
把刀放在医生的
尸体旁。随后，他也离开了坟场。
*
*
*
第二天，
治安官的手下在坟场发现
了医生的尸体
--
还有穆夫·波
特的刀
。当天晚上，穆夫回到坟场拿他的刀，但是警察已经等在那里
了。
他们把穆夫带回了圣彼得斯堡的小监狱。
穆夫在那里关了四个星
期，等待受审。
*
*
*
汤姆和哈克都忘不了坟场的那个夜晚。他们很郁闷，也很害怕。
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我们该怎
么办
?
汤姆说，
穆夫没杀医生
--
是印江·乔干的。
我
们看到是他干的
!
< br>我知道。
哈克说，
可是我们能做什么
?
我们谁都不能告诉。我
害怕印江·乔。他太危险了，他是个杀人犯。你想自己的背后也挨一
刀吗
?
对啊，我也害怕他。
汤姆说。他想了一会儿。
我为
穆夫·波
特难过，但是你说得对，哈克。我们不能告诉任何人印江·乔的事。
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Jackson's Island
The summer
holidays came, and there was no school. Tom
didn't want to think about Muff Potter
and Injun Joe, but it
wasn't easy. At
night, when he was in bed, he saw Injun Joe's
face in the dark, and he couldn't
sleep. But he couldn't talk
to anyone
about it.
One hot summer's day he and
Joe Harper were down by the
Mississippi
River. They sat and watched the boats, and fished
and talked.
'Let's get away
from here!' said Tom, suddenly. 'Let's go
and do something exciting somewhere.'
'OK,' said Joe. 'But what? And where?'
'I know,' Tom said. 'Let's run away.
Let's go and live on
Jackson's Island.
We can sleep out, under the trees.'
Jackson's
Island
was
in
the
Mississippi,
three
miles
south
of St
Petersburg. Nobody lived there.
'Let's
ask
Huck
Finn,
too,'
said
Tom.
'But
don't
tell
your
mother
or
father
or
anyone.
Go
home
and
get
some
things
to
eat,
and meet
me here at midnight.'
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-
34 -
So
that
night
three
boys
in
a
small
boat
went
down
the
river
to
Jackson's
Island.
They
had
some
bread
and
some
meat,
and
Huck
had
his
pipe,
too.
When
they
got
there,
they
carried
everything
on to the island
and made a fire, under a big old tree. Then
they cooked some of the meat over the
fire, and oh, that meat
was good - the
best dinner in the world! Soon, they stopped
talking, their eyes closed, and they
slept.
The next morning Tom
woke up with the sun on his head and
a
smile on his face. Then Huck and Joe woke up, and
the three
boys ran down to the river to
swim. After that, they fished,
and soon
they had
about
six
big fish for their
breakfast. They
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cooked the fish on their fire and ate
them all. They were very
hungry.
'That,' said Joe happily, 'was a
wonderful breakfast!'
After breakfast
they walked through the island, swam some
more, talked, fished, and swam again.
They came back to their
fire
in
the
afternoon.
Suddenly,
Tom
looked
up
and
said,
'Listen.
Can you hear boats?'
They
listened,
and
then
ran
across
the
island
to
look
down
the
river. There were twenty or more boats
on
the
water.
Every
boat in St Petersburg
was out.
'What are they doing?' asked
Joe.
'They're
Looking
for
a
dead
body,
I
think,'
said
Huck.
'They
did that last summer when Bill Turner
fell in the river and
drowned.'
'Who's dead, do you think?' asked Joe.
The boys watched the boats. Suddenly,
Tom cried, 'I know
who's dead! It's us!
They're looking for us!'
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This was wonderful. Tom
looked at his friends. 'We're
famous!'
he
said.
'Everybody
in
St
Petersburg
is
talking
about
us.
And they all feel sorry for us!'
Night
came,
and
the
boys
went
to
sleep.
But
Tom
did
not
sleep,
and when morning came, he wasn't there!
'Huck, where's Tom?' cried Joe.
'I
don't
know,'
Huck
began,
'but
-
Look!
There he is.
He's
swimming across to the
island now. Hey, Tom!'
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At
breakfast
Tom
told
his
story.
'I
went
home
last
night,'
he
said,
'and
listened
at
the
window.
Joe,
your
mother
was
there,
too, and she and Aunt Polly cried and
cried. I heard some very
interesting
things.
On
Sunday
there's
going
to
be
a
big
funeral
at
the
church
-
for
us!
And
listen-
I've
got
a
wonderful
idea.'
Huck and Joe listened and laughed, and
yes, it was a
wonderful idea.
That
night
the
boys
cooked
some
more
fish,
and
after
dinner
Huck
got out his pipe and began to smoke.
'Can we smoke, too?' asked Tom. 'I want
to learn.'
So Huck made pipes for Tom
and Joe, and the three boys sat
and
smoked.
'Hey, I like smoking,' said
Tom. 'It's easy!'
'It's nothing!' said
Joe. 'I'm going to smoke every day.'
But after ten minutes Tom and Joe got
quieter and quieter
and their faces
went an interesting colour.
'I'm going
for a little walk now,' said Tom. He stood up,
carefully, and walked away into the
trees.
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'Me too,' said
Joe, quickly.
The
two
boys
came
back
an
hour
later.
But
they
didn't
smoke
their pipes again.
*
*
*
On
Sunday
morning
there
were
no
happy
faces
in
St
Petersburg.
Aunt
Polly and
Joe's
mother
and
father
were in the church,
and
all
the
boys'
friends.
The
minister
said
some
very
nice
things
about the three boys,
and the boys' families cried and cried.
Everybody
cried.
And
little
Becky
Thatcher
did
not
stop
crying
for
one second.
There was a small noise at
the back of the church, but at
first
nobody heard it. Then the minister looked up - and
suddenly stopped speaking. Everybody
turned to look. Their
mouths opened,
and stayed open.
And into the church
came the three dead boys - Tom first,
Joe next, and then Huck.
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For
a
second
nobody
moved
or
spoke,
and
then
the
noise
began.
Aunt
Polly and Joe's mother ran to the boys, and took
them in
their arms. Aunt Polly cried,
and laughed, and cried again.
'Oh,
Tom!' she said. 'You're a bad boy, but I love
you!'
Suddenly, the minister called
out, 'Oh, happy days! Sing,
good people
of St Petersburg! Sing and be happy!'
And
everybody
sang,
and
smiled,
and
laughed
for
a
long
time.
It was St Petersburg's happiest
funeral.
*
*
*
The weeks
went
by, and the
judge came
to St Petersburg.
On
the day before Muff Potter's trial,
Huck and Tom met in the
street near
Tom's house. Huck was unhappy.
'Tom,
you didn't tell anyone about - you know?'
'No,
I
didn't.
But
Huck,
what
about
Muff?
People
are
saying
he's the killer. And he's going to
die!'
'But we can't tell anyone about
Injun Joe,' said Huck. 'I
don't want to
die, too! Do you?'
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No, Tom didn't want to die. But he
couldn't forget Muff
Potter's
face in the
jail -
old, tired, and unhappy. And
Injun
Joe was a free man. It
wasn't right.
That night Tom came home
late, and very excited. He could
not
sleep for two or three hours.
The
next
morning
all
the
village
was
at
Muff
Potter's
trial.
Injun Joe was there,
too. Muff waited, a tired old man with a
dirty face. The judge began the trial.
Questions, questions, questions.
Answers, answers,
answers. And the
answers were all bad for Muff Potter.
'Yes, I found the knife in the
graveyard, next to Doctor
Robinson's
body.'
'Yes, that's Muff Potter's
knife. He always carries it.'
'Yes, I
saw Muff Potter in the village that afternoon. He
had the knife with him then.'
Muff Potter began to look more and more
unhappy. Then the
judge said: 'Call
Thomas Sawyer!'
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St Petersburg sat up. What did young
Tom Sawyer know?
Everybody looked at
him, and waited.
'Thomas
Sawyer,
where
were
you
on
the
seventeenth
of
June,
at the
hour of midnight?'
'In the graveyard.'
'Why?'
'I went there to see
ghosts. With a - a - dead cat.'
St
Petersburg laughed, and the judge looked angry.
'And
where were you in the graveyard,
Thomas?'
'Behind the trees near Hoss
Williams' grave.'
Injun Joe's face
suddenly went white.
'Now, my boy,'
said the judge. 'Tell us your story.'
And so Tom told his story, and St
Petersburg sat and
listened to him with
open mouths.
'... and then Muff Potter
fell, and Injun Joe jumped with
the
knife and -'
-
42 -
Crash!
Injun
Joe
jumped
through
the
window,
and
was
out
and
away in a
second.
*
*
*
St
Petersburg loved
Tom
for
a week.
But Tom was
not
happy.
Injun
Joe
was
not
in
jail,
and
he
was
a
dangerous
man.
Tom
slept
badly for weeks.
The slow
summer days went by. Injun Joe did not come back
to St Petersburg, and Tom began to
forget.
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词汇
pipe n. a smoking tool
烟斗
wake v. to
stop sleeping
醒来
wonderful adj. very great; extremely
pleasant
极好的
;
极
为愉快的
drown v. to die
under water because you cannot breathe
淹
死
funeral n. a ceremony, usually.
religious, of burying or
burning a dead
person
葬礼
church
n. a building for public Christian worship
教堂
minister
n.
a
person
who
stands
and
says
things
in
the
front
of the
church in formal events such as funeral or wedding
牧
师
call out to say something loudly
大声说出
judge n. the
most important person at a trial who decides
when somebody must go to prison
法官
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