towhead

towhead

1. They done it, and soon as they was aboard I lit out for our towhead, and in about five or ten minutes we heard the dogs and the men away off, shouting.

他们就照我的话做了。他们一上筏子，我就开往一处沙洲。三五分钟后，我们听到远处狗啊，人啊，吵做一团。

2. He said the first towhead stood for a man that would try to do us some good, but the current was another man that would get us away from him.

他说，那第一个沙洲指的是存心对我们做好事的人，可是，那流水指的是另一个人，此人存心要叫我们遇不到那个好人。

3. Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog;

后来，在第二个夜晚，开始起了雾，我们便朝一处沙洲划去，把木筏系好，因为在雾中行舟是不行的。

4. A towhead is a sandbar that has cottonwoods on it as thick as harrow-teeth.

沙洲是一片沙土岗子，上面长满了白杨，密得象耙齿一般。

5. by the time we had left a mile of woods behind us and struck the river, everything was quiet, and we paddled over to the towhead and hid in the cottonwoods and was safe.

等到我们离林子一英里多路，驶进了大河，一切平静了下来。我们划到了沙洲那边，躲到了白杨树丛里，就平安无事了。

6. As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead.

船一开动，我就顺着沙洲，朝着木筏，拼命追去。