Around the World in Eighty Days · chapter 7 of 8
The American Railroad
美国的火车
Buffalo, raiders and a wind-driven sledge stand between the travelers and New York. Then the ship they need sails without them.
Read what you hear
- Passepartout 先生！你看窗外！野牛！有几千头！它们的角，比我的头还大！
Xiānsheng! Nǐ kàn chuāngwài! Yěniú! Yǒu jǐ qiān tóu! Tāmen de jiǎo, bǐ wǒ de tóu hái dà!
Sir! Look out the window! Buffalo! Thousands of them! Their horns are bigger than my head!
- Phileas Fogg 它们要过铁路。火车必须停下来等一等。
Tāmen yào guò tiělù. Huǒchē bìxū tíngxiàlái děng yi děng.
They're crossing the tracks. The train has to stop and wait.
- Train Conductor 先生们，野牛太多了！火车要等三个小时！
Xiānshengmen, yěniú tài duō le! Huǒchē yào děng sān gè xiǎoshí!
Gentlemen, there are too many buffalo! The train must wait three hours!
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- Phileas Fogg 我们没有三个小时。请你把火车开过去，一点一点地开。
Wǒmen méiyǒu sān gè xiǎoshí. Qǐng nǐ bǎ huǒchē kāi guòqù, yìdiǎn yìdiǎn de kāi.
We don't have three hours. Please drive the train through, slowly, bit by bit.
- Train Conductor 开过去？野牛会撞坏火车的！
Kāi guòqù? Yěniú huì zhuàng huài huǒchē de!
Drive through? The buffalo will smash the train!
- Detective Fix 福格先生说得对。时间最重要，我也想快点回英国。
Fúgé xiānsheng shuō de duì. Shíjiān zuì zhòngyào, wǒ yě xiǎng kuàidiǎn huí Yīngguó.
Mr. Fogg is right. Time matters most, and I want to get back to England fast too.
- Passepartout 费克斯先生今天真热心。他一定很爱旅行，也很爱帮别人。
Fèikèsī xiānsheng jīntiān zhēn rèxīn. Tā yídìng hěn ài lǚxíng, yě hěn ài bāng biérén.
Mr. Fix is so helpful today. He must really love to travel, and to help others.
- Train Conductor 不好了！有一群人骑着马，从后面追上来了！大家抓紧！
Bù hǎo le! Yǒu yì qún rén qí zhe mǎ, cóng hòumiàn zhuīshànglái le! Dàjiā zhuājǐn!
Trouble! A band of riders on horseback is catching up from behind! Everyone hold on!
- Passepartout 先生，我去后面看看！我很快回来！
Xiānsheng, wǒ qù hòumiàn kàn kan! Wǒ hěn kuài huílái!
Sir, I'll go and look at the back! I'll be right back!
- Aouda 福格先生，路路通不见了！他们把他带走了！
Fúgé xiānsheng, Lùlùtōng bú jiàn le! Tāmen bǎ tā dàizǒu le!
Mr. Fogg, Passepartout is gone! They've taken him away!
- Phileas Fogg 我去找他。费克斯先生，请你保护艾达夫人。
Wǒ qù zhǎo tā. Fèikèsī xiānsheng, qǐng nǐ bǎohù Àidá fūrén.
I'm going to find him. Mr. Fix, please protect Lady Aouda.
- Detective Fix 你要一个人去？福格先生，你会输掉八十天的！
Nǐ yào yí gè rén qù? Fúgé xiānsheng, nǐ huì shūdiào bāshí tiān de!
You're going alone? Mr. Fogg, you'll lose your eighty days!
- Phileas Fogg 路路通是我的朋友。没有他，八十天也没有意思。
Lùlùtōng shì wǒ de péngyou. Méiyǒu tā, bāshí tiān yě méiyǒu yìsi.
Passepartout is my friend. Without him, eighty days mean nothing.
- Narrator 士兵们和福格一起，把路路通带了回来。可是火车已经开走了。
Shìbīngmen hé Fúgé yìqǐ, bǎ Lùlùtōng dài le huílái. Kěshì huǒchē yǐjīng kāizǒu le.
The soldiers went with Fogg and brought Passepartout back. But the train had already gone.
- Passepartout 先生，对不起！因为我，我们又晚了！
Xiānsheng, duìbuqǐ! Yīnwèi wǒ, wǒmen yòu wǎn le!
Sir, I'm sorry! Because of me we're late again!
- Phileas Fogg 不用说了。我们需要一辆能在雪上走的车。
Búyòng shuō le. Wǒmen xūyào yí liàng néng zài xuě shàng zǒu de chē.
Enough of that. We need a vehicle that can run on snow.
- Detective Fix 我知道！我见过一个人，他有一辆带帆的雪橇！风一吹，比火车还快！
Wǒ zhīdào! Wǒ jiàn guò yí gè rén, tā yǒu yí liàng dài fān de xuěqiāo! Fēng yì chuī, bǐ huǒchē hái kuài!
I know! I've seen a man with a sledge that has a sail! When the wind blows, it's faster than a train!
- Phileas Fogg 带他来。费克斯先生，谢谢你。
Dài tā lái. Fèikèsī xiānsheng, xièxie nǐ.
Bring him. Thank you, Mr. Fix.
- Passepartout 咦？费克斯先生在帮我们？他真的很奇怪……我要看着他。
Yí? Fèikèsī xiānsheng zài bāng wǒmen? Tā zhēn de hěn qíguài… Wǒ yào kànzhe tā.
Huh? Mr. Fix is helping us? He's really strange... I'll keep watching him.
- Aouda 风好大！福格先生，这辆雪橇真的比火车还快！
Fēng hǎo dà! Fúgé xiānsheng, zhè liàng xuěqiāo zhēn de bǐ huǒchē hái kuài!
The wind is so strong! Mr. Fogg, this sledge really is faster than a train!
- Detective Fix 我的帽子！谁来帮我拿一下帽子！
Wǒ de màozi! Shuí lái bāng wǒ ná yíxià màozi!
My hat! Somebody help me hold my hat!
- Passepartout 费克斯先生，您抓帽子，我来抓您！
Fèikèsī xiānsheng, nín zhuā màozi, wǒ lái zhuā nín!
Mr. Fix, you hold your hat, and I'll hold you!
- Narrator 他们在雪上跑了一天，到了奥马哈，又坐上去纽约的火车。
Tāmen zài xuě shàng pǎo le yì tiān, dào le Àomǎhā, yòu zuòshàng qù Niǔyuē de huǒchē.
They raced over the snow for a day, reached Omaha, and took a train to New York.
- Passepartout 先生！先生！去英国的大船，刚刚开走了！
Xiānsheng! Xiānsheng! Qù Yīngguó de dàchuán, gānggāng kāizǒu le!
Sir! Sir! The ship for England has just sailed!
- Phileas Fogg 四十五分钟。我们晚了四十五分钟。
Sìshíwǔ fēnzhōng. Wǒmen wǎn le sìshíwǔ fēnzhōng.
Forty-five minutes. We're forty-five minutes late.
- Aouda 福格先生，还有别的船去英国吗？我们可以等吗？
Fúgé xiānsheng, háiyǒu biéde chuán qù Yīngguó ma? Wǒmen kěyǐ děng ma?
Mr. Fogg, is there another ship to England? Can we wait?
- Phileas Fogg 下一条大船，要等好几天。那时候，八十天就过了。
Xià yì tiáo dàchuán, yào děng hǎo jǐ tiān. Nà shíhou, bāshí tiān jiù guò le.
The next big ship is days away. By then the eighty days will be over.
- Passepartout 先生，我们只剩下九天了！那怎么办？
Xiānsheng, wǒmen zhǐ shèngxià jiǔ tiān le! Nà zěnme bàn?
Sir, we only have nine days left! What do we do?
- Phileas Fogg 我不等大船。我去买一条船。路路通，去码头，我们今天就出海！
Wǒ bù děng dàchuán. Wǒ qù mǎi yì tiáo chuán. Lùlùtōng, qù mǎtóu, wǒmen jīntiān jiù chūhǎi!
I won't wait for a big ship. I'll buy a ship of my own. Passepartout, to the docks, we sail today!
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What changed in the story?
- Why does the train have to stop on the prairie?
“野牛！有几千头！”……“它们要过铁路。”
- Why does Fogg go alone to find Passepartout?
“路路通是我的朋友。没有他，八十天也没有意思。”
- How does Fix help the travelers cross the snow?
“我见过一个人，他有一辆带帆的雪橇！”
- What is the bad news in New York?
“去英国的大船，刚刚开走了！”
- What does Fogg decide to do at the end?
“我去买一条船。”