听见礼炮声

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Suddenly, a peculiar sound broke the silence. 突然，一个奇怪的声音打破了寂静。

It was a deep, sullen boom coming from the distance. 那是一种从远处传来的低沉而阴郁的轰鸣声。

The boys hurried to the shore and peered through the bushes toward the town. 男孩们急忙跑到岸边，透过灌木丛向镇上望去。

They saw the little steam ferryboat drifting with the current. 他们看到那艘小蒸汽渡船正随波逐流。

It was crowded with people. 船上挤满了人。

Many small boats were rowing around it. 许多小船在它周围划来划去。

"I know what it is!" “我知道那是什么！”

Tom whispered. 汤姆低声说。

"Somebody is drowned!" “有人淹死了！”

Huck agreed. 哈克表示同意。

He remembered the summer before, when Bill Turner drowned. 他想起前一个夏天，比尔·特纳淹死的时候。

People had fired a cannon over the water to make the body rise to the top. 人们曾向水面开炮，好让尸体浮上来。

The boys watched another jet of white smoke burst from the ferryboat's side. 男孩们看到又一股白烟从渡船侧面喷出。

Again came that same dull throb of sound. 那同样沉闷的轰鸣声再次传来。

A revealing thought flashed through Tom's mind. 一个惊人的念头在汤姆脑中一闪而过。

"Boys, I know who's drowned—it's us!" “孩子们，我知道谁淹死了——是我们！”

In an instant, they felt like heroes. 一瞬间，他们觉得自己像英雄一样。

They were missed; they were mourned. 他们被思念着；他们被哀悼着。

People were crying for them and regretting their unkindness. 人们为他们哭泣，并后悔自己的不友善。

Best of all, they were the talk of the whole town. 最棒的是，他们成了全镇的话题。

This was a magnificent triumph. 这是一次辉煌的胜利。

It made being a pirate truly worthwhile. 这让当海盗变得真正值得。

As night fell, the pirates returned to camp, jubilant with vanity. 夜幕降临，海盗们带着虚荣的喜悦回到了营地。

They guessed at what the village was saying 他们猜测村子里在说什么

and felt proud of the trouble they were causing. 并为他们造成的麻烦感到自豪。

However, as the shadows deepened, Tom and Joe couldn't stop thinking about the people at home. 然而，随着夜幕加深，汤姆和乔无法停止思念家中的人。

Joe timidly suggested returning, but Tom mocked his "chicken-hearted" homesickness. 乔怯生生地提议回去，但汤姆嘲笑他“胆小鬼”般的思乡之情。

That night, after the others fell asleep, Tom wrote two messages on pieces of sycamore bark. 那天晚上，在其他人睡着后，汤姆在两片梧桐树皮上写了两条留言。

He put one in Joe's hat and kept the other. 他把其中一张放在乔的帽子里，另一张自己留着。

Then he tiptoed away toward the sandbar. 然后他踮着脚尖走向沙洲。