“铁锤!”我的外甥道格喊道，便急速跑回木屋去取。男人们很快轮番上阵，一个站在船头猛击冰面，另一个在船尾用力划桨。铁锤卡住，用力扭动，又卡住，所以，连砸几下船才能前行一英尺。船缓缓向前挪动，用力敲击二十分钟后才走了十英尺。
On the shore we were stamping（跺） our feet on the frozen ground. Soon it would be dark. Then someone had an idea. “If we tie a rope to the handle, maybe when the sledge sticks, we can haul（拖） the boat over the ice.”
我们站在岸上冻得直跺脚，天马上要黑了。有人出主意说：“我们在锤柄上拴条绳子，如果锤子被卡住我们就能把船拖上冰面。”
There was another dash to the cabin. Two of the men climbed back into the boat. Now there was movement. On a good lob（高举过顶）, the sledge would stick fast; pulling on the rope, the men got the boat to slide up on the ice, where the boat's weight caused it to crash through whole yards at a time.
又有人奔回小屋。两个男人爬上小船。现在有所进展了。高高举起大锤，旋即向前方掷去，铁锤马上楔在冰面上。用力一拉绳子，小船滑上了冰面。船身的重量一下子压得冰面一块块地破碎了。
From the shore, we saw the boat break into the opening the deer had made. Now what? Getting a rope around the neck of the panic-stricken（惊慌失措） animal was out of the question.
我们在岸上看到小船划入雌鹿撞成的那片水域。现在怎么办?把一条绳子套在惊慌失措的雌鹿的脖子上是不可能的。
“Get behind her!” one of us called. With the canoe paddle, the two in the boat gradually herded the terrified creature into the channel opened from the shore.“Hide !” we cautioned one another. “She mustn't see us.” As we faded back among the trees, the animal coasted into the shallows, legs folded beneath her. She could touch bottom easily now and stand.
“绕到她身后去!”我们有人喊道。船上的两个人用桨慢慢地把惊恐万状的雌鹿赶入了通往岸边的水道。“快躲起来，”我们相互提醒道，“不能让她看到我们。”我们藏在树林中，雌鹿已来到浅滩。她现在可以很容易地够得着水底站立起来。
Instead, she floated slowly to shore and huddled（卷缩） there. We could see her wary（机警的） eyes, her heaving（起伏） sides. Had she broken her legs or gashed（划破） her chest against the sharp-edged ice? Concealed by the trees, not daring to talk and add to her stress, we could only watch in silence.
雌鹿却慢慢游到岸边，卷缩在那里。我们看到她双眼机警，腹部一起一伏。她是摔断了腿还是被尖冰划破了胸？我们不敢出声，也不敢再使她紧张，我们只能躲在树后默默观望。
Slowly the liquid eyes closed. The long, sensitive face drooped（低垂） until the chin was resting on the bank. She wasn't dead, for her eyes would open from time to time, but it was clear to us all that she was dying. Even when the two men brought the boat up to her flanks（侧面） and stepped around her, she did not move.
