《金银岛》第十五章 寻宝结局(3)

Thank you，doctor，he said．

谢谢你，大夫，他说。

You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins．

你来得正是时候，救了我和霍金斯的命。

He looked at Ben Gunn．So it was you，Ben Gunn，playing the ghost！

他看着本·葛恩。原来真是你，本·葛恩，扮鬼吓我们。

We walked down the hill to the boats and，as we did so，the doctor told Silver and me his story．

我们下山向小船走去，一路上大夫给我们讲了他的故事，

But it was really Ben's story from beginning to end．

而这一切的主要角色都是那位本·葛恩。

Ben，in his lonely walks around the island，had found the skeleton¹ and found the treasure．

在岛上孤独的本发现了那具尸骨和宝藏。

He had carried the gold on his back in many journeys，and had taken it to a cave on the north-east corner of the island，two months before the Hispaniola arrived．

他用肩背扛着宝藏，运到岛的东北角一个洞穴里，不知搬了多少趟，直到伊斯帕尼奥拉号抵达前两个月才运完。

Ben had told the doctor this，and the next morning the doctor gave Silver the map-which was now useless-and gave him the food at the stockade，because there was plenty in Ben Gunn's cave．

本早就把这一切告诉了大夫，第二天早晨大夫就把那张无用的地图交给了西尔弗，把补给品也给了他们，因为本·葛恩的山洞里有足够的补给品。

That morning，when the doctor saw I had to go with the pirates² to find the treasure，

今天早晨，大夫发现我不得不和那帮海盗去寻宝，

he had left the squire³ to look after the captain，then took Gray and Ben Gunn with him to be ready to help us．

他就让乡绅照顾船长，然后带上格雷和本·葛恩跟着我们以防不测。

1 skeleton   

n.骨骼，框架，骨干，梗概，提要

参考例句：

• A long illness made a skeleton out of him.长期的卧病使他骨瘦如柴。
• Her notes gave us just the bare skeleton of her theory.她的笔记只给我们提供了她的理论的梗概。

2 pirates   

n.海盗( pirate的名词复数 )；剽窃者；侵犯版权者；非法播音的人（或组织）

参考例句：

• Children dressed (themselves) up as pirates. 孩子们假扮成海盗。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The pirates treated their captives with barbarity. 海盗们残暴地对待他们的俘虏。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 squire   

n.护卫, 侍从, 乡绅

参考例句：

• I told him the squire was the most liberal of men.我告诉他乡绅是世界上最宽宏大量的人。
• The squire was hard at work at Bristol.乡绅在布里斯托尔热衷于他的工作。