9 英语泛读教程1-Unit Seven-Text 2英汉对照（原Unit9） Text TwoThe Call of the Wildby Jack London1 The wild animal was strong in Buck, and as he traveled across the snow, it grew stronger and stronger. And as Buck grew stronger, he hated Spitz more and more, although he was careful never to start a fight. 2 But Spitz was always showing his teeth to Buck. And Buck knew that if he and Spitz fought, one of them would die. 3 The fight almost happened one night when they stopped by a lake. There was heavy snow and it was very cold. The lake was frozen and Franois, Perrault, and the dogs had to spend the night on the ice, under a big rock. Buck had made a warm hole in the snow and was sorry to leave it to get his piece of fish. But when he had eaten, and returned to his hole, he found Spitz in it. Buck had tried not to fight Spitz before, but this was too much. He attacked him angrily. Spitz was surprised. He knew Buck was big, but he didnt know he was so wild. Franois was surprised too, and guessed why Buck was angry. 4 Go on, Buck! he shouted. Fight him, the dirty thief!5 Spitz was also ready to fight, and the two dogs circled one another, looking for the chance to jump in. But suddenly there was a shout from Perrault, and they saw eighty or a hundred dogs around the sledge. The dogs came from an Indian village, and they were searching for the food that they could smell on the sledge. Perrault and Franois tried to fight them off with their clubs but the dogs, made crazy by the smell of the food, showed their teeth and fought back. 6 Buck had never seen dogs like these. They were all skin and bone, but hunger made them fight like wild things. Three of them attacked Buck and in seconds his head and legs were badly bitten. Despite this, Buck fought bravely. He caught a dog by the neck and tasted blood. He threw himself on the next one, and then felt teeth in his own neck. It was Spitz, attacking him from the side. 7 Perrault and Franois came to help with clubs, but then they had to run back to save the food. It was safer for the sledge-dogs to run away across the lake. Several of them were badly hurt, and they spent an unhappy night hiding among the trees. 8 At first light they returned to the sledge and found Perrault and Franois tired and angry. Half their food was gone. The Indian dogs had even eaten one of Perraults shoes. Franois looked at his dogs unhappily. 9 Perrault said nothing. They still had six hundred kilometres to travel, and he hoped very much that his sledge-dogs had not caught rabies from the Indian dogs. 10 The harness was torn and damaged and it was two hours before they were moving, traveling slowly and painfully over the most difficult country that they had been in. 11 The Thirty Mile River was not frozen. It ran too fast to freeze. They spent six days trying to find a place to cross, and every step was dangerous for dogs and men. Once, the sledge fell through the ice, with Dave and Buck, and they were covered in ice by the time Perrault and Franois pulled them out of the river and had to light a fire to dry and warm them, as the temperature was 45 degrees below zero. Another time, Spitz and the dogs in front fell through the iceBuck and Dave and Francois at the sledge had to pull backwards. That day they traveled only four hundred metres. 12 When they got to the good ice, Buck and the other dogs were very, very tired. But they were late, so Perrault made them run faster. In three days they went a hundred and eighty kilometres and reached the Five Fingers. 13 The other dogs had hard feet from years of pulling sledges, but Bucks feet were still soft from his easy life down south. All day he ran painfully, and when they camped for the night, he lay down like a dead dog. He was hungry, but he was too tired to walk to the fish, so Franois brought it to him. One day Franois made four little shoes for him, and this made Buck much more comfortable. Franois forgot the shoes one morning, and Buck refused to move. He lay on his back with his feet in the air, until Franois put the shoes on. Later his feet grew harder and the shoes were not needed. 14 One morning, at the Pelly River, a dog called Dolly went suddenly mad, and jumped at Buck. Buck ran, with Dolly one step behind him. She could not catch him, but he could not escape from her. They ran half a kilometre, and then Buck heard Franois call to him. He turned and ran towards the man, sure that Franois would save him. Franois stood, holding his ax and as Buck passed, the ax crashed down on Dollys head. 15 Buck fell down by the sledge, too tired to move. Immediately, Spitz attacked him and bit his helpless enemy twice, as hard as he could. But Franois saw this, and gave Spitz a terrible beating for it. 16 Hes a wild dog, that Spitz, said Perrault. One day hell kill Buck.1