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It would have made a Stoic smile to have seen me and my little family sit down to dinner; there was my majesty the prince and lord of the whole island; I had the lives of all my subjects at my absolute command.
你如果是一个信奉斯多葛哲学的人，看到我和我的小家庭成员共进晚餐的情景，也一定会忍俊不禁。我坐在中间，俨然是全岛的君王。我对自己的臣民拥有绝对的生杀之权。
I could hang, draw, give liberty, and take it away, and no rebels among all my subjects. Then, to see how like a king I dined, too, all alone, attended by my servants, Poll, as if he had been my favourite, was the only person permitted to talk to me.
我可以任意处置我的臣民，要杀就杀，要抓就抓，要放就放，而且不会有反叛者。再看看我是怎样用餐的吧！我一个人坐在那儿进餐，我的臣民在一旁侍候。我的鹦鹉仿佛是我的宠臣，只有它才被允许与我讲话。
My dog, who was now grown very old and crazy, and had found no species to multiply his kind upon, sat always at my right hand; and two cats, one on one side of the table and one on the other, expecting now and then a bit from my hand, as a mark of especial favour.
我的狗现在已又老又昏聩了，它总是坐在我右手；而那两只猫则各坐一边，不时地希望从我手里得到一点赏赐，并把此视为一种特殊的恩宠。
But these were not the two cats which I brought on shore at first, for they were both of them dead, and had been interred near my habitation by my own hand;
这两只猫已不是我最初从破船上带下来的了，那两只早就死了，我亲自把它们葬在我的住所附近。
but one of them having multiplied by I know not what kind of creature, these were two which I had preserved tame; whereas the rest ran wild in the woods, and became indeed troublesome to me at last;
不过其中一只不知同什么动物交配，生下了许多小猫。这两只就是我从那些小猫中留下来驯养起来的，其余的都跑到树林里成了野猫，那些野猫后来给我添了不少麻烦。
for they would often come into my house, and plunder me too, till at last I was obliged to shoot them, and did kill a great many; at length they left me.
因为它们经常跑到我家里来劫掠我的东西。最后我不得不开枪杀了它们一大批，终于把它们赶走了。
With this attendance and in this plentiful manner I lived; neither could I be said to want anything but society; and of that, some time after this, I was likely to have too much.
现在有那么多仆人侍候我，生活也过得很富裕，唯一缺乏的就是没有人可以交往而已，其它什么都不缺。但不久之后，我就有人交往了，后来甚至觉得人太多了。
I was something impatient, as I have observed, to have the use of my boat, though very loath to run any more hazards; and therefore sometimes I sat contriving ways to get her about the island, and at other times I sat myself down contented enough without her.
我曾经说过，我非常希望能使用那只小船，但又不想再次冒险。因此，有时我会坐着苦思冥想，竭力设法把船弄到小岛的这边来；有时我又会安下心来，觉得不要它也行。
But I had a strange uneasiness in my mind to go down to the point of the island where, as I have said in my last ramble, I went up the hill to see how the shore lay, and how the current set, that I might see what I had to do:
可是我这人生性不安于现状，总是想到我上次出游时到过的海岛的那一边走一趟，看看有没有办法把小船弄过来，因为，正是在那儿，我可以登上小山，远眺海岸和潮水的流向。
This inclination increased upon me every day, and at length I resolved to travel thither by land, following the edge of the shore.
这念头在心里变得越来越强烈，最后终于决定沿着海岸从陆上走到那边去。
I did so; but had any one in England met such a man as I was, it must either have frightened them, or raised a great deal of laughter;
于是我就出发了。如果在英国有人碰到我这样的人，一定会吓一大跳，再不然也会大笑一阵。
and as I frequently stood still to look at myself, I could not but smile at the notion of my travelling though Yorkshire with such an equipage, and in such a dress. Be pleased to take a sketch of my figure as follows.
我也常常停下来打量自己，想到自己如果穿这套行装，像这样打扮在约克郡旅行，也禁不住笑起来。下面我把自己的模样描绘一下吧。
I had a great high shapeless cap, made of a goat's skin, with a flap hanging down behind, as well to keep the sun from me as to shoot the rain off from running into my neck, nothing being so hurtful in these climates, as the rain upon the flesh under the clothes.
我头上戴着一顶山羊皮做的便帽，这帽子做得又高又大，很不像样，后面还垂着一条长长的帽缘，一来是为了遮太阳，二来是为了挡雨，免得雨水流进脖子。在热带，被雨淋湿是最伤身体的。
I had a short jacket of goat's skin, the skirts coming down to about the middle of the thighs, and a pair of open-kneed breeches of the same;
我上身穿了一件山羊皮做的短外套，衣襟遮住了一半大腿，下身穿了一条齐膝短裤，
the breeches were made of the skin of an old he-goat, whose hair hung down such a length on either side that, like pantaloons, it reached to the middle of my legs;
也是用一只老公羊的皮做成的，两旁的羊毛一直垂到小腿上，看上去像条长裤。
stockings and shoes I had none, but had made me a pair of somethings, I scarce knew what to call them, like buskins, to flap over my legs, and lace on either side like spatterdashes, but of a most barbarous shape, as indeed were all the rest of my clothes.
我没有鞋子，也没有袜子，但做了一双短靴似的东西，自己也不知道该叫什么，靴长刚及小腿，两边再用绳子系起来，好像绑腿一样。这双靴子与我身上的其他装束一样，极端拙劣难看。
I had on a broad belt of goat's skin dried, which I drew together with two thongs of the same instead of buckles, and in a kind of a frog on either side of this, instead of a sword and a dagger, hung a little saw and a hatchet, one on one side and one on the other.
我腰间束了一条宽阔的皮带，那是用晒干了的小羊皮做的，皮带没有搭扣，只用两根山羊皮条系着。带子两边有两个搭环，原来是水手用来挂短刀或短剑的，可我挂了一把小锯和一把斧头，一边一把。
I had another belt not so broad, and fastened in the same manner, which hung over my shoulder, and at the end of it, under my left arm, hung two pouches, both made of goat's skin too, in one of which hung my powder, in the other my shot.
另一条较窄的皮带，斜挂在我的肩膀上，也用皮条系着。这条皮带的末端，在我左胳膊下，挂着两个山羊皮袋，一个装火药，一个装子弹。
At my back I carried my basket, and on my shoulder my gun, and over my head a great clumsy, ugly goat's-skin umbrella, but which, after all, was the most necessary thing I had about me next to my gun.
我背上背着筐子，肩上扛着枪，头上撑着一顶羊皮做的大阳伞，样子又难看又笨拙。尽管如此，除了枪之外，这把伞也是我随身不可缺少的东西。
As for my face, the colour of it was really not so mulatto-like as one might expect from a man not at all careful of it, and living within nine or ten degrees of the equinox.
至于我的脸，倒不像穆拉托人那么黑，看上去像一个住在赤道九度、十度之内的热带地区那种不修边幅的人。
My beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of a yard long; but as I had both scissors and razors sufficient, I had cut it pretty short, except what grew on my upper lip,
我的胡子曾长到四分之一码长，但我有的是剪刀和剃刀，所以就把它剪短了，但上嘴唇的胡子仍留着，
which I had trimmed into a large pair of Mahometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some Turks at Sallee, for the Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did;
并修剪成像回教徒式的八字大胡子，像我在萨累见到的土耳其人留的胡子那样，因为摩尔人是不留这种胡子的，只有土耳其人才留。
of these moustachios, or whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my hat upon them, but they were of a length and shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would have passed for frightful.
我不敢说我的这副胡子长得可以挂我的帽子，但确实又长又大，要是在英国给人看见，准会吓一大跳。
