英语美文与传神翻译：死海求生（连载5）
Solo Sailor in Peril
文 | 英语和翻译实践者
引言
托尼·布利莫尔是一位世界级的帆船运动员。他最爱的一个是妻子，一个是大海。他渴望永远和妻子幸福地生活在一起，而大海却要扼杀他的这个梦想。
正文
5 Last Chance?
Tony Bullimore: Holding my injured hand out of the water, I quickly stumble back to the cuddy for a small first-aid kit stored there. I wrap the bloody stub with cotton wool and bandages, but within ten minutes, the dressings fall off into the water. Fortunately, the bleeding stops after a half-hour, and the cold has numbed the pain.
Its crazy, but I have to go back to the companionway and dive to the door once again. Ive got no choice. I have to get to the life raft.
This time I make it through the hatch with no trouble, and I see the life raft about 16 feet away. By the time I swim to it, my lungs are bursting. I have to turn back to the cabin, where I surge through the hatch, gasping for air.
I catch my breath, and five minutes later I try again. Knife in hand, I grab two of the restraining ropes and manage to cut them before I run out of air.
I am exhausted. I have to take a break. The pitch-black cuddy is still relatively dry. I find a shelf about 18 inches wide along one wall and slide onto it, grinding my ribs on the sharp outer edge as I do. My shoulders are jammed against the hull. There isnt enough room to turn.
I dont care. Im so tired. I just want to sleep. My eyes wont stay open. So tired and so cold ...
Canberra: One aircraft ideal for long-distance rescues is a long-range, antisubmarine patrol plane called the Orion. Most of the Royal Australian Air Forces Orion crews were on Christmas leave and had to be recalled. But by dawn on Monday, January 6, the first of five Orions took off from Adelaide. After a more than 1100-nautical-mile flight to Perth, in Western Australia, they refueled and began the search.
Jackson-Calway then phoned to see if the Royal Australian Navy had a vessel available for rescue. He was in luck. The 4100-ton frigate H.M.A.S. Adelaide was in Perths port and could be readied to sail within hours.
As the ship got ready, the air crews were already searching. After four hours of steady flying, they reached the area of the ocean where the signals were last registered. Waves the size of five-story buildings tumbled across the surface, turning the ocean almost completely white.
The crew spotted an overturned hull rising on the crest of a wave. Flying as low as possible, the pilot swept over the boat. There was something tied to the rudder. It was a man, Thierry Dubois, waving frantically.
The storm had snapped off his mast and completely flipped over his boat. Dubois had somehow managed to scramble onto the overturned hull.
Swooping low, the Orion crew dropped him life rafts and survival packs to keep him alive until a rescue ship came. Then they started to look for Exide Challenger, but with only 45 minutes of search time left, they had to turn back without success.
A second Orion arrived just over an hour later. Sweeping back and forth over the search area, the rescue crew turned up nothing. Finally, flying at the lowest possible speed, they saw it. The overturned Exide Challenger rose up on a wave, the number 33 clearly visible on her side.
Her keel was gone. In its place was a black gash, like a wound, on the hull. At times, the yacht completely disappeared under waves.
The crew marked the Exides position, took photos of the overturned boat and called in their sighting. “No sign of any survivor,” they radioed to their base.
Within hours the photo and the drama of the two seamen—one found, one lost —was relayed via news media around the world.
翻扣的“伊格赛德挑战者号”（澳大利亚海军图片）
试译
5 最后的机会？
托尼·布利莫尔：把受伤的手举出水面，我急忙踉踉跄跄地奔回贮藏室，寻找存放在那里的小急救包。我用纱布和绷带缠住了流血的手指，可没过10分钟，缠的东西就掉到水里去了。幸运的是，半小时后血不再流了，寒冷把手冻木了，疼痛也就感觉不到了。
听起来像是发疯了，但我还是得返回到过道，再次潜到舱门处。我没有别的选择，我必须弄到救生筏。
这一次，我钻出了舱门，没有遇到任何麻烦。我看见救生筏在16英尺以外的地方。我游过去时，肺部憋得要爆裂似的，只得返回舱内换气。我钻入舱门，大口喘气。
我使自己的呼吸平稳下来。5分钟后，我再次潜游过去。一手拿着刀子，另一只手抓住捆扎的两根绳子，在换气之前把它们割断。
我累极了。我得休息一下。漆黑的贮藏室仍然比较干燥。我找到了一扇靠墙的18英寸宽的隔架，挤进去时，尖尖的外棱硌疼了我的肋骨。我的双肩紧紧地顶着船底。空间太小，没有办法翻身。
我太累了，顾不了这些了。我只想睡觉，眼睛已经睁不开了。太累了，太冷了……
澳大利亚堪培拉：适于做远距离救援的飞机是一种名叫“猎手”的远程反潜巡逻机。大多数澳大利亚皇家空军的“猎手”机组人员都休圣诞假去了，现在得把他们重新集结起来。到1月6日（星期一）清早，5架“猎手”飞机中的第一架从阿德莱德（澳大利亚东南部港口城市）起飞了。经过1100多海里的飞行，他们到达澳大利亚西部城市珀斯，重新加油后，开始搜寻。
杰克逊-卡尔威又给澳大利亚皇家海军打电话，看是否有舰艇参加救援。很幸运，4100吨的护卫舰“阿德莱德号”正停在珀斯港，几小时内就可起航。
护卫舰准备完毕时，飞机已开始搜寻了。经过4个小时的飞行，他们到达了最近一次发出求救信号的海域。5层楼高的大浪滚过海面，使大海几乎变成了纯白色。
机组人员看见一条翻扣过来的船，浮在浪尖上。驾驶员尽量降低，飞过这条船。他们看到有样东西附在舵上。原来，那是一个人——蒂埃里·杜布瓦，正疯狂地挥手。
风暴刮断了他的桅杆，掀翻了船。幸运的是，杜布瓦还是想法爬上了船底。
飞机俯冲到低空，机组人员给他扔下了救生筏和救生包，使他能够坚持到救援船只的到来。然后，他们开始搜寻“伊格赛德挑战者号”。可仅用剩下的45分钟，他们没有找到，只得返回。
一小时后，第二架飞机进入这一海域。翻来覆去地搜寻，他们却什么也没找到。最后，以最低的速度飞行，他们终于看到了。被打翻的“伊格赛德挑战者号”出现在浪尖上。船侧的号码“33”清晰可见。
船的稳定杆没有了，那里有一个黑洞，像船体上的一块疤。有时候，船完全消失在波谷里。
机组人员标记下“伊格赛德挑战者号”的位置，拍下照片，汇报他们看到的情景。他们向基地报告说：“看不到有幸存者的迹象。”
几小时后，照片和两位航海运动员出事的情况——一人找到，一人失踪——通过新闻媒体在全世界传播开来。
（未完待续，后面更精彩）
译者简介：从事英汉口译和笔译39年，译审，全国第一届和第二届“韩素音青年翻译奖”竞赛一等奖获得者；已出版译著8部，最新译著有《携火奔月》和《我的两次月球之旅》（上海交通大学出版社）。
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