读者文摘:狗的秘密生活(4)

He stayed until I was out of sight, then turned and trotted¹ north along the river and into the woods.

一直待到我看不见为止，然后转身沿河向北小跑，进了树林。

If the rest of his life was a mystery, when we were together we became fast friends.

如果狗的余生是个谜，那么我们在一起的时候，就成了亲密的朋友。

I'd cook an extra egg sandwich for him, and when there were no ducks, we would talk.

我会给它多做一个鸡蛋三明治，当没有鸭子的时候，我们就会聊天。

That is, I would talk; Ike would sit, his enormous² head resting on my knee,

我讲话，艾克坐在那里，硕大的脑袋靠在我的膝盖上，

his huge brown eyes looking up at me while I petted him and told him all my troubles.

当我抚摸它的时候，它那双棕色的大眼睛看着我，我把我所有的烦恼都告诉它。

On the weekends when I stayed out, I would construct a lean-to and make a fire.

外出的周末，我会建一个披屋，生一堆火。

Ike would curl³ up on the edge of my blanket.

艾克会蜷缩在我的毯子边上。

Many mornings I'd awaken⁴ to find him under the frost-covered blanket with me, sound asleep,

许多早晨，我醒来发现它躺在满是冰霜的毯子里，睡得很熟，

my arm thrown over him, his breath rumbling⁵ against my side.

我的手臂搭在它身上，它的呼吸声在我身侧隆隆作响。

It seemed Ike had always been in my life. Then one morning he wasn't there.

一直以来，似乎艾克成为我生活的一部分。有一天早上，它不见了。

I would wait in the mornings by the bridge, but he never showed again.

早上我在桥边等，但它再也没有出现过。

I thought he might have been hit by a car or his owners might have moved away.

我想它可能是被车撞了，或者它的主人可能已经搬走了。

But I could not learn more of him. I mourned him and missed him.

但关于它的其它事我一概不知。我哀悼它，想念它。

I grew up and went into the crazy parts of my life, the mistakes a young man could make.

我长大了，也做了些疯狂的事，这些错误年轻人都会犯。

Later I got back into dogs—sled dogs—and ran the Idita-rod race across Alaska.

后来狗又出现在我的生活中——雪橇犬——参加艾迪塔罗德比赛，穿越阿拉斯加洲。

After my first run, I came back home to Minnesota with slides of the race.

第一次跑完之后，我带着比赛的幻灯片回到了明尼苏达的家。

1 trotted   

小跑，急走( trot的过去分词 )； 匆匆忙忙地走

参考例句：

• She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
• Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。

2 enormous   

adj.巨大的；庞大的

参考例句：

• An enormous sum of money is injected each year into teaching.每年都有大量资金投入到教学中。
• They wield enormous political power.他们行使巨大的政治权力。

3 curl   

n.(一绺)鬈发；卷曲；vt.卷曲；vi.卷曲；缭绕

参考例句：

• She put her hair in rollers to make it curl.她用卷发夹子把头发弄鬈曲。
• Does her hair curl naturally?她的头发是天然鬈曲的吗？

4 awaken   

vi.醒，觉醒；vt.唤醒，使觉醒，唤起，激起

参考例句：

• Old people awaken early in the morning.老年人早晨醒得早。
• Please awaken me at six.请于六点叫醒我。

5 rumbling   

n. 隆隆声, 辘辘声 adj. 隆隆响的 动词rumble的现在分词

参考例句：

• The earthquake began with a deep [low] rumbling sound. 地震开始时发出低沉的隆隆声。
• The crane made rumbling sound. 吊车发出隆隆的响声。