《童话镇》第309期:残忍的过往

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Big as oak trees, all of them veterans of the second ogreswar, and my father the biggest of them all. 他们壮如栎树 都经历过第二次食人魔大战 我的父亲  比他们都强壮

Come one wolfstime, he decided¹ to go out and take on the wolf. 那次狼的活动期  他决定出去除掉那只狼

A different wolf back then, of course, but just as fearsome. They went out there to protect me. 当然  那时是另一只狼 但是  一样凶猛  他们这么做是为了保护我

I was supposed to be asleep, but I crawled out on the roof to watch and lay down in the thatch². 我本该睡觉的  但是我却爬上屋顶 躺在茅草里看着他们

They had the beast surrounded, the seven of them, with spears all pointed³ in at it. 他们七个人包围住那个野兽 用长矛对着它

Then it started.It was lunging. Not at the men, at the spears, Grabbing with its teeth, breaking the shafts⁴. 然后它发起了进攻  它突然冲出来  不是对着人  而是对着那些长矛  用它的牙齿咬住  扯断了矛柄

They stabbed it with the splintered end, but it didn't matter. 他们用断了的矛柄刺中了它 但却没有用

It tore their throats so fast that not a one of them got a chance to scream or pray... or say goodbye. 它眨眼间就撕碎了他们的喉咙 他们都没能来得及尖叫或祈祷或是道别

When my father died, I tumbled from the roof, and I landed in the blood in front of the wolf. 我父亲死后  我从屋顶上摔了下来 落在血泊之中 就在狼的面前

I felt its breath on my face.Then it clamped its hot jaw⁵ on my arm, and I rolled away. 它呼出的气息喷在我的脸上  然后它用腥热的颚咬住我的手臂然后我滚到了一边

 

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