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At the southern end the doubled waters poured out again over high waterfalls and ran away hurriedly to unknown lands. In the still evening air the noise of the falls could be heard like a distant roar.
Not far from the mouth of the Forest River was the strange town he heard the elves speak of in the king's cellars.
宋子仙自吴郡趣钱塘。刘神茂自吴兴趣富阳，前武州刺史富阳孙国恩以城降之。
It was not built on the shore, though there were a few huts and buildings there, but right out on the surface of the lake, protected from the swirl of the entering river by a promontory of rock which formed a calm bay.
A great . bridge made of wood ran out to where on huge piles made of forest trees was built a busy wooden town, not a town of elves but of Men, who still dared to dwell here under the shadow of the distant dragon-mountain.
でむえバヽハ
They still throve on the trade that came up the great river from the South and was carted past the falls to their town; but in the great days of old, when Dale in the North was rich and prosperous, they had been wealthy and powerful, and there had been fleets of boats on the waters, and some were filled with gold and some with warriors in armour, and there had been wars and deeds which were now only a legend. The rotting piles of a greater town could still be seen along the shores when the waters sank in a drought.
十一月，乙卯，葬武皇帝于修陵，庙号高祖。
But men remembered little of all that, though some still sang old songs of the dwarf-kings of the Mountain, Thror and Thrain of the race of Durin, and of the coming of the Dragon, and the fall of the lords of Dale. Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.
As soon as the raft of barrels came in sight boats rowed out from the piles of the town, and voices hailed the raft-steerers. Then ropes were cast and oars were pulled, and soon the raft was drawn out of the current of the Forest River and towed away round the high shoulder of rock into the little bay of Lake-town.
メゎワッ゠れヷ
百济遣使入贡，见城关荒圮，异于向来，哭于端门；侯景怒，录送庄严寺，不听出。
壬戌，宋子仙急攻钱塘，戴僧逷降之。
There it was moored not far from the shoreward head of the great bridge. Soon men would come up from the South and take some of the casks away, and others they would fill with goods they had brought to be taken back up the stream to the Wood-elves' home.
In the meanwhile the barrels were left afloat while the elves of the raft and the boatmen went to feast in Lake-town.
岳阳王詧使将军薛晖攻广平，拔之，获杜岸，送襄阳。詧拔其舌，鞭其面，支解而烹之。又发其祖父墓，焚其骸而扬之，以其头为漆椀。
They would have been surprised, if they could have seen what happened down by the shore, after they had gone and the shades of night had fallen.
First of all a barrel was cut loose by Bilbo and pushed to the shore and opened. Groans came from inside, and out crept a most unhappy dwarf. Wet straw was in his draggled beard; he was so sore and stiff, so bruised and buffeted he could hardly stand or stumble through the shallow water to lie groaning on the shore.
・ォズズびぁベヨヶ
詧旣与湘东王绎为敌，恐不能自存，遣使求援于魏，请为附庸。丞相泰令东合祭酒荣权使于襄阳，绎使司州刺史柳仲礼镇竟陵以图詧，詧惧，遣其妃王氏及世子嶚为质于魏。丞相泰欲经略江、汉，以开府仪同三司杨忠都督三荆等十五州诸军事，镇穰城。仲礼至安陆，安陆太守柳勰以城降之。仲礼留长史马岫与其弟子礼守之，帅众一万趣襄阳，泰遣杨忠及行台仆射长孙俭将兵击仲礼以救詧。
宋子仙乘胜度浙江，至会稽。邵陵王纶闻钱塘已败，出奔鄱阳，鄱阳内史开建侯蕃以兵拒之，范进击蕃，破之。
He had a famished and a savage look like a dog that has been chained and forgotten in a kennel for a week. It was Thorin, but you could only have told it by his golden chain, and by the colour of his now dirty and tattered sky-blue hood with its tarnished silver tassel. It was some time before he would be even polite to the hobbit.
魏杨忠将至义阳，太守马伯符以下溠城降之，忠以伯符为乡导。伯符，岫之子也。
"Well, are you alive or are you dead?" asked Bilbo quite crossly. Perhaps he had forgotten that he had had at least one good meal more than the dwarves, and also the use of his arms and legs, not to speak of a greater allowance of air. "Are you still in prison, or are you free? If you want food, and if you want to go on with this silly adventure- it's yours after all and not mine-you had better slap your arms and rub your legs and try and help me get the others out while there is a chance!"
ッボムヤそヺすヲぎ
南郡王大连为东扬州刺史。时会稽丰沃，胜兵数万，粮仗山积，东土人惩侯景残虐，咸乐为用，而大连朝夕酣饮，不恤军事；司马东阳留异，凶狡残暴，为众所患，大连悉以军事委之。十二月，庚寅，宋子仙攻会稽，大连弃城走，异奔还乡里，寻以其众降于子仙。大连欲奔鄱阳，异为子仙乡导，追及大连于信安，执送建康，大连犹醉不之知。帝闻之，引帷自蔽，掩袂而泣。于是三吴尽没于景，公侯在会稽者，俱南度岭。景以留异为东阳太守，收其妻子为质。
乙酉，东魏以幷州刺史彭乐为司徒。
Thorin of course saw the sense of this, so after a few more groans he got up and helped the hobbit as well as he could. In the darkness floundering in the cold water they had a difficult and very nasty job finding which were the right barrels. Knocking outside and calling only discovered about six dwarves that could answer. They were unpacked and helped ashore where they sat or lay muttering and moaning; they were so soaked and bruised and cramped that they could hardly yet realize their release or be properly thankful for it.
Dwalin and Balin were two of the most unhappy, and it was no good asking them to help. Bifur and Bofur were less knocked about and drier, but they lay down and would do nothing.
Fili and Kili, however, who were young (for dwarves) and had also been packed more neatly with plenty of straw into smaller casks, came out more or less smiling, with only a bruise or two and a stiffness that soon wore off.
"I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili.
邵陵王纶进至九江，寻阳王大心以江州让之，纶不受，引兵西上。
"My tub was full of it. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now, for hours on end-but not an apple!"
With the willing help of Fili and Kili, Thorin and Bilbo at last discovered the remainder of the company and got them out. Poor fat Bombur was asleep or senseless; Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin and Gloin were waterlogged and seemed only half alive; they all had to be carried one by one and laid helpless on the shore.
ヵムべべばェヽごソゟ
始兴太守陈霸先结郡中豪杰欲讨侯景，郡人侯安都、张偲等各帅众千余人归之。霸先遣主帅杜僧明将二千人顿于岭上，广州刺史萧勃遣人止之曰：“侯景骁雄，天下无敌，前者援军十万，士马精强，犹不能克，君以区区之众，将何所之！如闻岭北王侯又皆鼎沸，亲寻干戈，以君疏外，讵可暗投！未若且留始兴，遥张声势，保太山之安也。”霸先曰：“仆荷国恩，往闻侯景渡江，卽欲赴援，遭值元、兰，梗我中道。今京都覆没，君辱臣死，谁敢爱命！君侯体则皇枝，任重方岳，遣仆一军，犹贤乎已，乃更止之乎！”乃遣使间道诣江陵，受湘东王绎节度。时南康土豪蔡路养起兵据郡，勃乃以腹心谭世远为曲江令，与路养相结，同遏霸先。
魏杨忠拔随郡，执太守桓和。
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东魏使金门公潘乐等将兵五万袭司州，刺史夏侯强降之。于是东魏尽有淮南之地。
卷一六三 梁纪十九
"Well! Here we are!" said Thorin. "And I suppose we ought to thank our stars and Mr. Baggins. I am sure he has a right to expect it, though I wish he could have arranged a more comfortable journey. Still-all very much at your service once more, Mr. Baggins. No doubt we shall feel properly grateful, when we are fed and recovered. In the meanwhile what next?"
"I suggest Lake-town," said Bilbo, "What else is there?" Nothing else could, of course, be suggested; so leaving the others Thorin and Fili and Kili and the hobbit went along the shore to the great bridge. There were guards at the head of it, but they were not keeping very careful watch, for it was so long since there had been any real need. Except for occasional squabbles about river-tolls they were friends with the Wood-elves.
上章敦牂（庚午），一年。
太宗简文皇帝大宝元年（庚午，公元五五〇年）
Other folk were far away; and some of the younger people in the town openly doubted the existence of any dragon in the mountain, and laughed at the greybeards and gammers who said that they had seen him flying in the sky in their young days.
春，正月，辛亥朔，大赦，改元。
That being so it is not surprising that the guards were drinking and laughing by a fire in their hut, and did not hear the noise of the unpacking of the dwarves or the footsteps of the four scouts. Their astonishment was enormous when Thorin Oakenshield stepped in through the door.
"Who are you and what do you want?" they shouted leaping to their feet and gipping for weapons.
陈霸先发始兴，至大庾岭，蔡路养将二万人军于南野以拒之。路养妻侄兰陵萧摩诃，年十三，单骑出战，无敢当者。杜僧明马被伤，陈霸先救之，授以所乘马；僧明上马复战，众军因而乘之，路养大败，脱身走。霸先进军南康，湘东王绎承制授霸先明威将军、交州刺史。
"Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror King under the Mountain!" said the dwarf in a loud voice, and he looked it, in spite of his torn clothes and draggled hood. The gold gleamed on his neck and waist: his eyes were dark and deep. "I have come back. I wish to see the Master of your town!"
プぴマはちディスん
Then there was tremendous excitement. Some of the more foolish ran out of the hut as if they expected the Mountain to go golden in the night and all the waters of the lake to turn yellow right away. The captain of the guard came forward.
戊辰，东魏进太原公高洋位丞相、都督中外诸军、录尚书事、大行台、齐郡王。
"And who are these?" he asked, pointing to Fili and: Kili and Bilbo.
テるかヴパひゝペせ
庚午，邵陵王纶至江夏，郢州刺史南平王恪郊迎，以州让之，纶不受；乃推纶为假黄钺，都督中外诸军事，承制置百官。
"The sons of my father's daughter," answered Thorin, "Fili and Kili of the race of Durin, and Mr. Baggins who has travelled with us out of the West."
"If you come in peace lay down your arms!" said the captain.
魏杨忠围安陆，柳仲礼驰归救之。诸将恐仲礼至则安陆难下，请急攻之，忠曰：“攻守势殊，未可猝拔；若引日劳师，表里受敌，非计也。南人多习水军，不闲野战，仲礼师在近路，吾出其不意，以奇兵袭之，彼怠我奋，一举可克。克仲礼，则安陆不攻自拔，诸城可传檄定也。”乃选骑二千，衔枚夜进，败仲礼于漴头，获仲礼及其弟子礼，尽俘其众。马岫以安陆，别将王叔孙以竟陵，皆降于忠。于是汉东之地尽入于魏。
"We have none," said Thorin, and it was true enough: their knives had been taken from them by the wood-elves, and the great sword Orcrist too. Bilbo had his short sword, hidden as usual, but he said nothing about that. "We have no need of weapons, who return at last to our own as spoken of old. Nor could we fight against so many. Take us to your master!"
广陵人来嶷说前广陵太守祖皓曰：“董绍先轻而无谋，人情不附，袭而杀之，此壮士之任也。今欲纠帅义勇，奉戴府君。若其克捷，可立桓、文之勋，必天未悔祸，犹足为梁室忠臣。”皓曰：“此仆所愿也。”乃相与纠合勇士，得百余人。癸酉，袭广陵，斩南兖州刺史董绍先；据城，驰檄远近，推前太子舍人萧勔为刺史，仍结东魏为援。皓，暅之子；勔，勃之兄也。乙亥，景遣郭元建帅众奄至，皓婴城固守。
"He is at feast," said the captain.
"Then all the more reason for taking us to him," burst in Fili, who was getting impatient at these solemnities. "We are worn and famished after our long road and we have sick comrades. Now make haste and let us have no more words, or your master may have something to say to you."
せぶいべぇネル
二月，魏杨忠乘胜至石城，欲进逼江陵，湘东王绎遣舍人庾恪说忠曰：“詧来伐叔而魏助之，何以使天下归心！”忠遂停湕北。绎遣舍人王孝祀等送子方略为质以求和，魏人许之。绎与忠盟曰：“魏以石城为封，梁以安陆为界，请同附庸，并送质子，贸迁有无，永敦邻睦。”忠乃还。
宕昌王梁弥定为其宗人獠甘所袭，弥定奔魏，獠甘自立。羌酋傍乞铁悤据渠株川，与渭州民郑五丑合诸羌以叛魏。丞相泰使大将军宇文贵、凉州刺史史宁讨之，擒斩铁悤、五丑。宁别击獠甘，破之，獠甘将百骑奔生羌巩廉玉。宁复纳弥定于宕昌，置岷州于渠株川，进击巩廉玉，斩獠甘，虏廉玉送长安。
"Follow me then," said the captain, and with six men about them he led them over the bridge through the gates and into the market-place of the town. This was a wide circle of quiet water surrounded by the tall piles on which were built the greater houses, and by long wooden quays with many steps and ladders going down to the surface of the lake. From one great hall shone many lights and there came the sound of many voices. They passed its doors and stood blinking in the light looking at long tables filled with folk.
"I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror King under the Mountain! I return!" cried Thorin in a loud voice from the door, before the captain could say anything. All leaped to their feet. The Master of the town sprang from his great chair. But none rose in greater surprise than the raft-men of the elves who were sitting at the lower end of the hall. Pressing forward before the Master's table they cried:
侯景遣任约、于庆等帅众二万攻诸藩。
"These are prisoners of our king that have escaped, wandering vagabond dwarves that could not give any good account of themselves, sneaking through the woods and molesting our people!"
"Is this true?" asked the Master. As a matter of fact he thought it far more likely than the return of the King under the Mountain, if any such person had ever existed.
邵陵王纶欲救河东王誉而兵粮不足，乃致书于湘东王绎曰：“天时地利，不及人和，况乎手足肱支，岂可相害！今社稷危耻，创巨痛深，唯应剖心尝胆，泣血枕戈，其余小忿，或宜容贳。若外难未除，家祸仍构，料今访古，未或不亡。夫征战之理，唯求克胜；至于骨肉之战，愈胜愈酷，捷则非功，败则有丧，劳兵损义，亏失多矣。侯景之军所以未窥江外者，良为藩屏盘固，宗镇强密。弟若陷洞庭，不戢兵刃，雍州疑迫，何以自安，必引进魏军以求形援。弟若不安，家国去矣。必希解湘州之围，存社稷之计。”绎复书，陈誉过恶不赦，且曰：“詧引杨忠来相侵逼，颇遵谈笑，用却秦军，曲直有在，不复自陈。临湘旦平，暮便卽路。”纶得书，投之于案，慷慨流涕曰：“天下之事，一至于斯，湘州若败，吾亡无日矣！”
"It is true that we were wrongfully waylaid by the Elven-king and imprisoned without cause as we journeyed back to our own land," answered Thorin. "But lock nor bar may hinder the homecoming spoken of old. Nor is this town in the Wood-elves' realm. I speak to the Master of the town of the Men of the lake, not to the raft-men of the king."
Then the Master hesitated and looked from one to the other. The Elvenking was very powerful in those parts and the Master wished for no enmity with him, nor did he think much of old songs, giving his mind to .trade and tolls, to cargoes and gold, to which habit he owed his position. Others were of different mind, however, and quickly the matter was settled without him.
シざいみ
侯景遣侯子鉴帅舟师八千，自帅徒兵一万，攻广陵，三日，克之，执祖皓，缚而射之，箭徧体，然后车裂以徇；城中无少长皆埋之于地，驰马射而杀之。以子鉴为南兖州刺史，镇广陵。景还建康。
丙戌，以安陆王大春为东扬州刺史。省吴州。
The news had spread from the doors of the hall like fire through all the town. People were shouting inside the hall and outside it.
The quays were thronged with hurrying feet. Some began to sing snatches of old songs concerning the return of the King under the Mountain; that it was Thror's grandson not Thror himself that had come back did not bother them at all. Others took up the song and it rolled loud and high over the lake.
乙巳，以尚书仆射王克为左仆射。
The King beneath the mountains,The King of carven stone,The lord of silver fountainsShall come into his own!
His crown shall be upholden,His harp shall be restrung,His halls shall echo goldenTo songs of yore re-sung.
庚寅，东魏以尚书令高隆之为太保。
The woods shall wave on mountainsAnd grass beneath the sun;His wealth shall flow in fountainsAnd the rivers golden run.
宣城内史杨白华进据安吴，侯景遣于子悦等帅众攻之，不克。
The streams shall run in gladness,The lakes shall shine and burn,And sorrow fail and sadnessAt the Mountain-king's return!
So they sang, or very like that, only there was a great deal more of it, and there was much shouting as well as the music of harps and of fiddles mixed up with it. Indeed such excitement had not been known in the town in the memory of the oldest grandfather. The Wood-elves themselves began to wonder greatly and even to be afraid.
ロナとぁぃケヴ
东魏行台辛术将兵入寇，围阳平，不克。
侯景纳上女溧阳公主，甚爱之。三月，甲申，景请上禊宴于乐游苑，帐饮三日。上还宫，景与公主共据御床，南面并坐，羣臣文武列坐侍宴。
They did not know of course how Thorin had escaped, and they began to think their king might have made a serious mistake.
As for the Master he saw there was nothing else for it but to obey the general clamour, for the moment at any rate, and to pretend to believe that Thorin was what he said.
庚申，东魏进丞相洋爵为齐王。
So he gave up to him his own great chair and set Fili and Kili beside him in places of honour. Even Bilbo was given a seat at the high table, and no explanation of where he came in-no songs had alluded to him even in the obscurest way-was asked for in the general bustle.
Soon afterwards the other dwarves were brought into the town amid scenes of astonishing enthusiasm.
临川内史始兴王毅等击庄铁，鄱阳王范遣其将巴西侯瑱救之，毅等败死。
They were all doctored and fed and housed and pampered in the most delightful and satisfactory fashion. A large house was given up to Thorin and his company; boats and rowers were put at their service; and crowds sat outside and sang songs all day, or cheered if any dwarf showed so much as his nose.
Some of the songs were old ones; but some of them were quite new and spoke confidently of the sudden death of the dragon and of cargoes of rich presents coming down the river to Lake-town. These were inspired largely by the Master and they did not particularly please the dwarves, but in the meantime they were well contented and they quickly grew fat and strong again.
鄱阳世子嗣与任约战于三章，约败走；嗣因徙镇三章，谓之安乐栅。
Indeed within a week they were quite recovered, fitted out in fine cloth of their proper colours, with beards combed and trimmed, and proud steps.
ばレベポテん
夏，四月，庚辰朔，湘东王绎以上甲侯韶为长沙王。
Thorin looked and walked as if his kingdom was already regained and Smaug chopped up into little pieces.
Then, as he had said, the dwarves' good feeling towards the little hobbit grew stronger every day. There were no more groans or grumbles. They drank his health, and they patted him on the back, and they made a great fuss of him; which was just as well, for he was not feeling particularly cheerful. He had not forgotten the look of the Mountain, nor the thought of the dragon, and he had besides a shocking cold. For three days he sneezed and coughed, and he could not go out, and even after that his speeches at banquets were limited to "Thag you very buch."
丙午，侯景请上幸西州，上御素辇，侍卫四百余人，景浴铁数千，翼卫左右。上闻丝竹，凄然泣下，命景起舞，景亦请上起舞。酒阑坐散，上抱景于床曰：“我念丞相。”景曰：“陛下如不念臣，臣何得至此！”逮夜乃罢。
In the meanwhile the Wood-elves had gone back up the Forest River with their cargoes, and there was great excitement in the king's palace. I have never heard what happened to the chief of the guards and the butler. Nothing of course was ever said about keys or barrels while the dwarves stayed in Lake-town, and Bilbo was careful never to become invisible. Still, I daresay, more was guessed than was known, though doubtless Mr. Baggins remained a bit of a mystery. In any case the king knew now the dwarves' errand, or thought he did, and he said to himself:
时江南连年旱蝗，江、扬尤甚，百姓流亡，相与入山谷、江湖，采草根、木叶、菱芡而食之，所在皆尽，死者蔽野。富室无食，皆鸟面鹄形，衣罗绮，怀金玉，俯伏床帷，待命听终。千里绝烟，人迹罕见，白骨成聚，如丘陇焉。
"Very well! We'll see! No treasure will come back through Mirkwood without my having something to say in the matter. But I expect they will all come to a bad end, and serve them right!" He at any rate did not believe in dwarves fighting and killing dragons like Smaug, and he strongly suspected attempted burglary or something like it which shows he was a wise elf and wiser than the men of the town, though not quite right, as we shall see in the end. He sent out his spies about the shores of the lake and as far northward towards the Mountains as they would go, and waited.
At the end of a fortnight Thorin began to think of departure. While the enthusiasm still lasted in the town was the time to get help. It would not do to let everything cool down with delay. So he spoke to the Master and his councillors and said that soon he and his company must go on towards the Mountain.
景性残酷，于石头立大碓，有犯法者捣杀之。常戒诸将曰：“破栅平城，当净杀之，使天下知吾威名。”故诸将每战胜，专以焚掠为事，斩刈人如草芥，以资戏笑。由是百姓虽死，终不附之。又禁人偶语，犯者刑及外族。为其将帅者，悉称行台，来降附者，悉称开府，其亲寄隆重者曰左右厢公，勇力兼人者曰库直都督。
Then for the first time the Master was surprised and a little frightened; and he wondered if Thorin was after all really a descendant of the old kings. He had never thought that the dwarves would actually dare to approach Smaug, but believed they were frauds who would sooner or later be discovered and be turned out. He was wrong. Thorin, of course, was really the grandson of the King under the Mountain, and there is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own. But the Master was not sorry at all to let them go. They were expensive to keep, and their arrival had turned things into a long holiday in which business was at a standstill.
魏封皇子儒为燕王，公为吴王。
"Let them go and bother Smaug, and see how he welcomes them!" he thought. "Certainly, O Thorin Thrain's son Thror's son!" was what he said.
侯景召宋子仙还京口。
"You must claim your own. The hour is at hand, spoken of old. What help we can offer shall be yours, and we trust to your gratitude when your kingdom is regained."
So one day, although autumn was now getting far on, and winds were cold, and leaves were falling fast, three large boats left Lake-town, laden with rowers, dwarves, Mr. Baggins, and many provisions. Horses and ponies had been sent round by circuitous paths to meet them at their appointed landing-place.
邵陵王纶在郢州，以听事为正阳殿，内外斋合，悉加题署。其部下陵暴军府，郢州将佐莫不怨之。咨议参军江仲举，南平王恪之谋主也，说恪图纶，恪惊曰：“若我杀邵陵，宁静一镇，荆、益兄弟必皆内喜，海内若平，则以大义责我矣。且巨逆未枭，骨肉相残，自亡之道也。卿且息之。”仲举不从，部分诸将，刻日将发，谋泄，纶压杀之。恪狼狈往谢，纶曰：“羣小所作，非由兄也。凶党已毙，兄勿深忧。”
The Master and his councillors bade them farewell from the great steps of the town-hall that went down to the lake. People sang on the quays and out of windows. The white oars dipped and splashed, and off they went north up the lake on the last stage of their long journey. The only person thoroughly unhappy was Bilbo.
王僧辩急攻长沙，辛巳，克之。执河东王誉，斩之，传首江陵，湘东王绎反其首而葬之。初，世子方等之死，临蒸周铁虎功最多，誉委遇甚重。僧辩得铁虎，命烹之，呼曰：“侯景未灭，柰何杀壮士！”僧辩奇其言而释之，还其麾下。绎以僧辩为左卫将军，加侍中、镇西长史。
In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running, and now they could all see the Lonely Mountain towering grim and tall before them. The stream was strong and their going slow. At the; end of the third day, some miles up the river, they drew in to the left or western bank and disembarked.
绎自去岁闻高祖之丧，以长沙未下，故匿之。壬寅，始发丧，刻檀为高祖像，置于百福殿，事之甚谨，动静必咨焉。绎以为天子制于贼臣，不肯从大宝之号，犹称太清四年。丙午，绎下令大举讨侯景，移檄远近。
Here they were joined by the horses with other provisions and necessaries and the ponies for their own use that had been sent to meet them. They packed what they could on the ponies and the rest was made into a store under a tent, but none of the men of the town would stay with them even for the night so near the shadow of the Mountain.
鄱阳王范至湓城，以晋熙为晋州，遣其世子嗣为刺史，江州郡县多辄改易。寻阳王大心，政令所行，不出一郡。大心遣兵击庄铁，嗣与铁素善，请发兵救之，范遣侯瑱帅精甲五千助铁。由是二镇互相猜忌，无复讨贼之志。大心使徐嗣徽帅众二千，筑垒稽亭以备范，市籴不通，范数万之众，无所得食，多饿死。范愤恚，疽发于背，五月，乙卯，卒。范众秘不发丧，奉范弟安南侯恬为主，有众数千人。
"Not at any rate until the songs have come true!" said they. It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts. Indeed their stores had no need of any guard, for all the land was desolate and empty. So their escort left them, making off swiftly down the river and the shoreward paths, although the night was already drawing on.
丙辰，侯景以元思虔为东道大行台，镇钱唐。丁巳，以侯子鉴为南兖州刺史。
They spent a cold and lonely night and their spirits fell. The next day they set out again. Balin and Bilbo rode behind, each leading another pony heavily laden beside him; the others were some way ahead picking out a slow road, for there were no paths. They made north-west, slanting away from the River Running, and drawing ever nearer and nearer to a great spur of the Mountain that was flung out southwards towards them.
东魏齐王洋之为开府也，勃海高德政为管记，由是亲昵，言无不尽。金紫光禄大夫丹杨徐之才、北平太守广宗宋景业，皆善图谶，以为太岁在午，当有革命，因德政以白洋，劝之受禅。洋以告娄太妃，太妃曰：“汝父如龙，兄如虎，犹以天位不可妄据，终身北面，汝独何人，欲行舜、禹之事乎！”洋以告之才，之才曰：“正为不及父兄，故宜早升尊位耳。”洋铸像卜之而成，乃使开府仪同三司段韶问肆州刺史斛律金，金来见洋，固言不可，以宋景业首陈符命，请杀之。洋与诸贵议于太妃前，太妃曰：“吾儿懦直，必无此心，高德政乐祸，敎之耳。”洋以人心不壹，遣高德政如邺察公卿之意，未还；洋拥兵而东，至平都城，召诸勋贵议之，莫敢对。长史杜弼曰：“关西，国之勍敌，若受魏禅，恐彼挟天子，自称义兵而东向，王何以待之！”徐之才曰：“今与王争天下者，彼亦欲为王所为，纵其屈强，不过随我称帝耳。”弼无以应。高德政至邺，讽公卿，莫有应者。司马子如逆洋于辽阳，固言未可。洋欲还，仓丞李集曰：“王来为何事，而今欲还？”洋伪使于东门杀之，而别令赐绢十匹，遂还晋阳，自是居常不悦。徐之才、宋景业等日陈阴阳杂占，云宜早受命。高德政亦敦劝不已。洋使术士李密卜之，遇大横，曰：“汉文之卦也。”又使宋景业筮之，遇干之鼎，曰：“干，君也。鼎，五月卦也。宜以仲夏受禅。”或曰：“五月不可入官，犯之，终于其位。”景业曰：“王为天子，无复下期，岂得不终于其位乎！”洋大悦，乃发晋阳。
It was a weary journey, and a quiet and stealthy one. There was no laughter or song or sound of harps, and the pride and hopes which had stirred in their hearts at the singing of old songs by the lake died away to a plodding gloom. They knew that they were drawing near to the end of their journey, and that it might be a very horrible end. The land about them grew bleak and barren, though once, as Thorin told them, it had been green and fair. There was little grass, and before long there was neither bush nor tree, and only broken and blackened stumps to speak of ones long vanished. They were come to the Desolation of the Dragon, and they were come at the waning of the year.
They reached the skirts of the Mountain all the same without meeting any danger or any sign of the Dragon other than the wilderness he had made about his lair. The Mountain lay dark and silent before them and ever higher above them. They made their first camp on the western side of the great southern spur, which ended in a height called Ravenhill. On this there had been an old watch-post; but they dared not climb it yet, it was too exposed.
ジゟて
高德政录在邺诸事，条进于洋，洋令左右陈山提驰驿赍事条，并密书与杨愔。是月，山提至邺，杨愔卽召太常卿邢卲议造仪注，秘书监魏收草九锡、禅让、劝进诸文；引魏宗室诸王入北宫，留于东斋。甲寅，东魏进洋位相国，总百揆，备九锡。洋行至前亭，所乘马忽倒，意甚恶之，至平都城，不复肯进。高德政、徐之才苦请曰：“山提先去，恐其漏泄。”卽命司马子如、杜弼驰驿续入，观察物情。子如等至邺，众人以事势已决，无敢异言。洋至邺，召夫赍筑具集城南。高隆之请曰：“用此何为？”洋作色曰：“我自有事，君何问为！欲族灭邪！”隆之谢而退。于是作圜丘，备法物。
丙辰，司空潘乐、侍中张亮、黄门郎赵彦深等求入启事，东魏孝静帝在昭阳殿见之。亮曰：“五行递运，有始有终。齐王圣德钦明，万方归仰，愿陛下远法尧、舜。”帝敛容曰：“此事推挹已久，谨当逊避。”又曰：“若尔，须作制书。”中书郎崔劼、裴让之曰：“制已作讫。”使侍中杨愔进之。东魏主旣署，曰：“居朕何所？”愔对曰：“北城别有馆宇。”乃下御坐，步就东廊，咏范蔚宗后汉书赞曰：“献坐不辰，身播国屯，终我四百，永作虞宾。”所司请发，帝曰：“古人念遗簪弊履，朕欲与六宫别，可乎？”高隆之曰：“今日天下犹陛下之天下，况在六宫！”帝步入，与妃嫔已下别，举宫皆哭。赵国李嫔诵陈思王诗云：“王其爱玉体，俱享黄发期。”直长赵道德以故犊车一乘候于东合，帝登车，道德超上抱之，帝叱之曰：“朕自畏天顺人，何物奴敢逼人如此！”道德犹不下。出云龙门，王公百僚拜辞，高隆之洒泣。遂入北城，居司马子如南宅，遣太尉彭城王韶等奉玺绶，禅位于齐。
Before setting out to search the western spurs of the Mountain for the hidden door, on which all their hopes rested, Thorin sent out a scouting expedition to spy out the land to the South where the Front Gate stood. For this purpose he chose Balin and Fili and Kili, and with them went Bilbo. They marched under the grey and silent cliffs to the feet of Ravenhill.
There the river, after winding a wide loop over the valley of Dale, turned from the Mountain on its road to the Lake, flowing swift and noisily. Its bank was bare and rocky, tall and steep above the stream; and gazing out from it over the narrow water, foaming and splashing among many boulders, they could see in the wide valley shadowed by the Mountain's arms the grey ruins of ancient houses, towers, and walls.
戊午，齐王卽皇帝位于南郊，大赦，改元天保。自魏敬宗以来，百官绝禄，至是始复给之。己未，封东魏主为中山王，待以不臣之礼。追尊齐献武王为献武皇帝，庙号太祖，后改为高祖；文襄王为文襄皇帝，庙号世宗。辛酉，尊王太后娄氏为皇太后。乙丑，降魏朝封爵有差，其宣力霸朝及西、南投化者，不在降限。
"There lies all that is left of Dale," said Balin. "The mountain's sides were green with woods and all the sheltered valley rich and pleasant in the days when the bells rang in that town." He looked both sad and grim as he said this: he had been one of Thorin's companions on the day the Dragon came.
They did not dare to follow the river much further to. wards the Gate; but they went on beyond the end of the southern spur, until lying hidden behind a rock they could look out and see the dark cavernous opening in a great cliff-wall between the arms of the Mountain.
文成侯宁起兵于吴，有众万人，己巳，进攻吴郡；行吴郡事侯子荣逆击，杀之。宁，范之弟也。子荣因纵兵大掠郡境。
Out of it the waters of the Running River sprang; and out of it too there came a steam and a dark smoke. Nothing moved in the waste, save the vapour and the water, and every now and again a black and ominous crow. The only sound was the sound of the stony water, and every now and again the harsh croak of a bird. Balin shuddered.
"Let us return!" he said. "We can do no good here!— And I don't like these dark birds, they look like spies of evil."
゠ゼケグチヾえ
自晋氏度江，三吴最为富庶，贡赋商旅，皆出其地。及侯景之乱，掠金帛旣尽，乃掠人而食之，或卖于北境，遗民殆尽矣。
是时，唯荆、益所部尚完实，太尉、益州刺史武陵王纪移告征、镇，使世子圆照帅兵三万受湘东王节度。圆照军至巴水，绎授以信州刺史，令屯白帝，未许东下。
"The dragon is still alive and in the halls under the Mountain then-or I imagine so from the smoke," said the hobbit.
"That does not prove it," said Balin, "though I don't doubt you are right. But he might be gone away some time, or he might be lying out on the mountain-side keeping watch, and still I expect smokes and steams would come out of the gates: all the halls within must be filled with his foul reek."
六月，辛巳，以南郡王大连行扬州事。
With such gloomy thoughts, followed ever by croaking crows above them, they made their weary way back to the camp. Only in June they had been guests in the fair house of Elrond, and though autumn was now crawling towards winter that pleasant time now seemed years ago. They were alone in the perilous waste without hope of further help. They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest. None of them had much spirit left.
Now strange to say Mr. Baggins had more than the others. He would often borrow Thorin's map and gaze at it, pondering over the runes and the message of the moon-letters Elrond had read. It was he that made the dwarves begin the dangerous search on the western slopes for the secret door.
江夏王大款、山阳王大成、宜都王大封自信安间道奔江陵。
They moved their camp then to a long valley, narrower than the great dale in the South where the Gates of the river stood, and walled with lower spurs of the Mountain. Two of these here thrust forward west from the main mass in long steep-sided ridges that fell ever downwards towards the plain.
齐主封宗室高岳等十人、功臣库狄干等七人皆为王。癸未，封弟浚为永安王，淹为平阳王，浟为彭城王，演为常山王，涣为上党王，淯为襄城王，湛为长广王，湝为任城王，湜为高阳王，济为博陵王，｛氵疑｝为新平王，润为冯翊王，洽为汉阳王。
On this western side there were fewer signs of the dragon's marauding feet, and there was some grass for their ponies. From this western camp, shadowed all day by cliff and wall until the sun began to sink towards the forest, day by day they toiled in parties searching for paths up the mountain-side. If the map was true, somewhere high above the cliff at the valley's head must stand the secret door. Day by day they came back to their camp without success.
But at last unexpectedly they found what they were seeking. Fili and Kili and the hobbit went back one day down the valley and scrambled among the tumbled rocks at its southern corner. About midday, creeping behind a great stone that stood alone like a pillar, Bilbo came on what looked like rough steps going upwards.
ズゖばほ
鄱阳王范旣卒，侯瑱往依庄铁，铁忌之；瑱不自安，丙戌，诈引铁谋事，因杀之，自据豫章。
寻阳王大心遣徐嗣徽夜袭湓城，安南侯恬、裴之横等击走之。
Following these excitedly he and the dwarves found traces of a narrow track, often lost, often rediscovered, that wandered on to the top of the southern ridge and brought them at last to a still narrower ledge, which turned north across the face of the Mountain. Looking down they saw that they were at the top of the cliff at the valley's head and were gazing down on to their own camp below.
Silently, clinging to the rocky wall on their right, they went in single file along the ledge, till the wall opened and they turned into a little steep-walled bay, grassy-floored, still and quiet. Its entrance which they had found could not be seen from below because of the overhang of the cliff, nor from further off because it was so small that it looked like a dark crack and no more.
齐主娶赵郡李希宗之女，生子殷及绍德；又纳段韶之妹。及将建中宫，高隆之、高德政欲结勋贵之援，乃言：“汉妇人不可为天下母，宜更择美配。”帝不从。丁亥，立李氏为皇后，以段氏为昭仪，子殷为皇太子。庚寅，以库狄干为太宰，彭乐为太尉，潘相乐为司徒，司马子如为司空。辛卯，以清河王岳为司州牧。
It was not a cave and was open to the sky above; but at its inner end a flat wall rose up that in the lower I part, close to the ground, was as smooth and upright as mason's work, but without a joint or crevice to be seen.
"No sign was there of post or lintel or threshold, nor any sign of bar or bolt or key-hole; yet they did not doubt that they had found the door at last.
侯景以羊鸦仁为五兵尚书。庚子，鸦仁出奔江西，将赴江陵，至东莞，盗疑其怀金，邀杀之。
They beat on it, they thrust and pushed at it, they implored it to move, they spoke fragments of broken spells of opening, and nothing stirred. At last tired out they. rested on the grass at its feet, and then at evening began, their long climb down.
There was excitement in the camp that night. In the morning they prepared to move once more. Only Bofur and Bombur were left behind to guard the ponies and such stores as they had brought with them from the river. The others went down the valley and up the newly found path, and so to the narrow ledge.
魏人欲令岳阳王詧发哀嗣位，詧辞，不受。丞相泰使荣权册命詧为梁王，始建台，置百官。
Along this they could carry no bundles or packs, so narrow and breathless was it, with a fall of a hundred and fifty feet beside them on to sharp rocks below; but each of them took a good coil of rope wound tight about his waist, and so at last without mishap they reached the little grassy bay.
ぐゔがオニむレすく
陈霸先修崎头古城，徙居之。
There they made their third camp, hauling up what they needed from below with their ropes.
Down the same way they were able occasionally to lower one of the more active dwarves, such as Kili, to exchange such news as there was, or to take a share in the guard below, while Bofur was hauled up to the higher camp. Bombur would not come up either the rope or the path.
初，燕昭成帝奔高丽，使其族人冯业以三百人浮海奔宋，因留新会。自业至孙融，世为罗州刺史，融子宝为高凉太守。高凉洗氏，世为蛮酋，部落十余万家，有女，多筹略，善用兵，诸洞皆服其信义；融聘以为宝妇。融虽累世为方伯，非其土人，号令不行；洗氏约束本宗，使从民礼，每与宝参决辞讼，首领有犯，虽亲戚无所纵舍，由是冯氏始得行其政。
"I am too fat for such fly-walks," he said. "I should turn dizzy and tread on my beard, and then you would be thirteen again. And the knotted ropes are too slender for my weight." Luckily for him that was not true, as you will see.
高州刺史李迁仕据大皋口，遣使召宝，宝欲往，洗氏止之曰：“刺史无故不应召太守，必欲诈君共反耳。”宝曰：“何以知之？”洗氏曰：“刺史被召援台，乃称有疾，铸兵聚众而后召君；此必欲质君以发君之兵也，愿且无往以观其变。”数日，迁仕果反，遣主帅杜平虏将兵入灨石，城鱼梁以逼南康，陈霸先使周文育击之。洗氏谓宝曰：“平虏，骁将也，今入赣石与官军相拒，势未得还，迁仕在州，无能为也。君若自往，必有战鬬，宜遣使卑辞厚礼告之曰："身未敢出，欲遣妇参。"彼闻之，必憙而无备。我将千余人，步担杂物，唱言输赕，得至栅下，破之必矣。”宝从之。迁仕果不设备，洗氏袭击，大破之，迁仕走保宁都。文育亦击走平虏，据其城。洗氏与霸先会于灨石，还，谓宝曰：“陈都督非常人也，甚得众心，必能平贼，君宜厚资之。”
In the meanwhile some of them explored the ledge beyond the opening and found a path that led higher and higher on to the mountain; but they did not dare to venture very far that way, nor was there much use in it.
Out up there a silence reigned, broken by no bird or sound except that of the wind in the crannies of stone. They spoke low and never called or sang, for danger brooded in every rock.
湘东王绎以霸先为豫州刺史，领豫章内史。
The others who were busy with the secret of the door had no more success.
辛丑，裴之横攻稽亭，徐嗣徽击走之。
They were too eager to trouble about the runes or the moon-letters, but tried without resting to discover where exactly in the smooth face of the rock the door was hidden. They had brought picks and tools of many sorts from Lake-town, and at first they tried to use these.
秋，七月，辛亥，齐立世宗妃元氏为文襄皇后，宫曰静德。又封世宗子孝琬为河间王，孝瑜为河南王。乙卯，以尚书令封隆之录尚书事，尚书左仆射平阳王淹为尚书令。
But when they struck the stone the handles splintered and jarred their arms cruelly, and the steel heads broke or bent like lead. Mining work, they saw clearly was no good against the magic that had shut this door; and they grew terrified, too, of the echoing noise.
Bilbo found sitting on the doorstep lonesome and wearisome-there was not a doorstep, of course, really, but they used to call the little grassy space between the wall and the opening the "doorstep" in fun, remembering Bilbo's words long ago at the unexpected party in his hobbit-hole, when he said they could sit on the doorstep till they thought of something. And sit and think they did, or wandered aimlessly about, and glummer and glummer they became.
辛酉，梁王詧入朝于魏。
Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves.
He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare away west through the opening, over the cliff, over the wide lands to the black wall of Mirkwood, and to the distances beyond, in which he sometimes thought he could catch glimpses of the Misty Mountains small and far. If the dwarves asked him what he was doing he answered:
ヰのシヮアンノつ
初，东魏遣仪同武威牒云洛等迎鄱阳世子嗣，使镇皖城。嗣未及行，任约军至，洛等引去；嗣遂失援，出战，败死。约遂略地至湓城，寻阳王大心遣司马韦质出战而败，帐下犹有战士千余人，咸劝大心走保建州；大心不能用，戊辰，以江州降约。先是，大心使前太子洗马韦臧镇建昌，有甲士五千，闻寻阳不守，欲帅众奔江陵，未发，为麾下所杀。臧，粲之子也。
于庆略地至豫章，侯瑱力屈，降之，庆送瑱于建康。景以瑱同姓，待之甚厚，留其妻子及弟为质，遣瑱庆徇蠡南诸郡，以瑱为湘州刺史。
"You said sitting on the doorstep and thinking would be my job, not to mention getting inside, so I am sitting and thinking." But I am afraid he was not thinking much of the job, but of what lay beyond the blue distance, the quiet Western Land and the Hill and his hobbit-hole under it.
A large grey stone lay in the centre of the grass and he stared moodily at it or watched the great snails. They seemed to love the little shut-in bay with its walls of cool rock, and there were many of them of huge size crawling slowly and stickily along its sides.
初，巴山人黄法｛奭毛｝，有勇力，侯景之乱，合徒众保乡里。太守贺诩下江州，命法｛奭毛｝监郡事。法｛奭毛｝屯新淦，于庆自豫章分兵袭新淦，法｛奭毛｝败之。陈霸先使周文育进军击庆，法｛奭毛｝引兵会之。
"Tomorrow begins the last week of Autumn," said Thorin one day.
"And winter comes after autumn," said Bifur.
邵陵王纶闻任约将至，使司马蒋思安将精兵五千袭之，约众溃；思安不设备，约收兵袭之，思安败走。
"And next year after that," said Dwalin, "and our beards will grow till they hang down the cliff to the valley before anything happens here. What is our burglar doing for us?
Since he has got an invisible ring, and ought to be a specially excellent performer now, I am beginning to think he might go through the Front Gate and spy things out a bit!"
゠メ
湘东王绎改宜都为宜州，以王琳为刺史。
是月，以南郡王大连为江州刺史。
Bilbo heard this-the dwarves were on the rocks just : above the enclosure where he was sitting-and "Good Gracious!" he thought, "so that is what they are beginning to think, is it? It is always poor me that has to get them out : of their difficulties, at least since the wizard left.
Whatever am I going to do? I might have known that something dreadful would happen to me in the end. I don't think I could bear to see the unhappy valley of Dale again, and as for that steaming gate! ! !"
魏丞相泰以齐主称帝，帅诸军讨之。以齐王廓镇陇右，征秦州刺史宇文导为大将军、都督二十三州诸军事，屯咸阳，镇关中。
That night he was very miserable and hardly slept. Next day the dwarves all went wandering off in various directions; some were exercising the ponies down below, some were roving about the mountain-side.
All day Bilbo sat gloomily in the grassy bay gazing at the stone, or out west through the narrow opening. He had a queer feeling that he was waiting for something. "Perhaps the wizard will suddenly come back today," he thought.
益州沙门孙天英帅徒数千人夜攻州城，武陵王纪与战，斩之。
If he lifted his head he could see a glimpse of the distant forest. As the sun turned west there was a gleam of yellow upon its far roof, as if the light caught the last pale leaves. Soon he saw the orange ball of the sun sinking towards the level of his eyes.
邵陵王纶大修铠仗，将讨侯景。湘东王绎恶之，八月，甲午，遣左卫将军王僧辩、信州刺史鲍泉等帅舟师一万东趣江、郢，声言拒任约，且云迎邵陵王还江陵，授以湘州。
He went to the opening and there pale and faint was a thin new moon above the rim of Earth. At that very moment he heard a sharp crack behind him. There on the grey stone in the grass was an enormous thrush, nearly coal black, its pale yellow breast freckled dark spots.
Crack! It had caught a snail and was knocking it on the stone. Crack! Crack!
齐主初立，励精为治。赵道德以事属黎阳太守清河房超，超不发书，棓杀其使；齐主善之，命守宰各设棓以诛属请之使。久之，都官中郎宋轨奏曰：“若受使请赇，犹致大戮，身为枉法，何以加罪！”乃罢之。
Suddenly Bilbo understood. Forgetting all danger he stood on the ledge and hailed the dwarves, shouting and paying. Those that were nearest came tumbling over the rocks and as fast as they could along the ledge to him, wondering what on earth was the matter; the others shouted to be hauled up the ropes (except Bombur, of course: he was asleep).
司都功曹张老上书请定齐律，诏右仆射薛琡等取魏麟趾格，更讨论损益之。
Quickly Bilbo explained. They all fell silent: the hobbit standing by the grey stone, and the dwarves with wagging beards watching impatiently.
The sun sank lower and lower, and their hopes fell. It sank into a belt of reddened cloud and disappeared. The dwarves groaned, but still Bilbo stood almost without moving.
ヵわろむヮ
齐主简练六坊之人，每一人必当百人，任其临陈必死，然后取之，谓之“百保鲜卑”。又简华人之勇力绝伦者，谓之“勇士”，以备边要。
始立九等之户，富者税其钱，贫者役其力。
The little moon was dipping to the horizon. Evening was coming on. Then suddenly when their hope was lowest a red ray of the sun escaped like a finger through a rent in the cloud. A gleam of light came straight through the opening into the bay and fell on the smooth rock-face.
The old thrush, who had been watching from a high perch with beady eyes and head cocked on one side, gave a sudden trill. There was a loud attack. A flake of rock split from the wall and fell. A hole appeared suddenly about three feet from the ground. Quickly, trembling lest the chance should fade, the dwarves rushed to the rock and pushed-in vain.
九月，丁巳，魏军发长安。
"The key! The key!" cried Bilbo. "Where is Thorin?"
Thorin hurried up.
王僧辩军至鹦鹉洲，郢州司马刘龙虎等潜送质于僧辩，邵陵王纶闻之，遣其子威正侯礩将兵击之，龙虎败，奔于僧辩。纶以书责僧辩曰：“将军前年杀人之侄，今岁伐人之兄，以此求荣，恐天下不许！”僧辩送书于湘东王绎，绎命进军。辛酉，纶集其麾下于西园，涕泣言曰：“我本无他，志在灭贼，湘东常谓与之争帝，遂尔见伐。今日欲守则交绝粮储，欲战则取笑千载，不容无事受缚，当于下流避之。”麾下壮士争请出战，纶不从，与礩自仓门登舟北出。僧辩入据郢州。绎以南平王恪为尚书令、开府仪同三司，世子方诸为郢州刺史，王僧辩为领军将军。
"The key!" shouted Bilbo. "The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!"
Then Thorin stepped up and drew the key on its chain from round his neck. He put it to the hole. It fitted and it turned! Snap!
ひヌリーオど
纶遇镇东将军裴之高于道，之高之子畿掠其军器，纶与左右轻舟奔武昌涧饮寺，僧法馨匿纶于岩穴之下。纶长史韦质、司马姜律等闻纶尚存，驰往迎之，说七栅流民以求粮仗。纶出营巴水，流民八九千人附之，稍收散卒，屯于齐昌，遣使请和于齐，齐以纶为梁王。
湘东王绎改封皇子大款为临川王，大成为桂阳王，大封为汝南王。
The gleam went out, the sun sank, the moon was gone, and evening sprang into the sky.
Now they all pushed together, and slowly a part of the rock-wall gave way. Long straight cracks appeared and widened.
癸亥，魏军至潼关。
A door five feet high and three broad was out- lined, and slowly without a sound swung inwards. It seemed as if darkness flowed out like a vapour from the hole in the mountain-side, and deep darkness in which nothing could be seen lay before their eyes mouth leading in and down.
Chapter 12 Inside Information
庚午，齐主如晋阳，命太子殷居凉风堂监国。
For a long time the dwarves stood in the dark before the door and debated, until at last Thorin spoke:
南郡王中兵参军张彪等起兵于若邪山，攻破浙东诸县，有众数万。吴郡人陆令公等说太守南海王大临往依之。大临曰：“彪若成功，不资我力；如其桡败，以我自解。不可往也。”
"Now is the time for our esteemed Mr. Baggins, who has proved himself a good companion on our long road, and a hobbit full of courage and resource far exceeding his size, and if I may say so possessed of good luck far exceeding the usual allowance-now is the time for him to perform the service for which he was included in our Company; now is the time for him to earn his Reward."
You are familiar with Thorin's style on important occasions, so I will not give you any more of it, though he went on a good deal longer than this.
フけンし
任约进寇西阳、武昌。初，宁州刺史彭城徐文盛募兵数万人讨侯景，湘东王绎以为秦州刺史，使将兵东下，与约遇于武昌。绎以庐陵王应为江州刺史，以文盛为长史行府州事，督诸将拒之。应，续之子也。邵陵王纶引齐兵未至，移营马栅，距西阳八十里，任约闻之，遣仪同叱罗子通等将铁骑二百袭之，纶不为备，策马亡走。时湘东王绎亦与齐连和，故齐人观望，不助纶。定州刺史田祖龙迎纶，纶以祖龙为绎所厚，惧为所执，复归齐昌。行至汝南，魏所署汝南城主李素，纶之故吏也，开城纳之，任约遂据西阳、武昌。
裴之高帅子弟部曲千余人至夏首，湘东王绎召之，以为新兴、永宁二郡太守。又以南平王恪为武州刺史，镇武陵。
It certainly was an important occasion, but Bilbo felt impatient. By now he was quite familiar with Thorin too, and he knew what be was driving at.
"If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done! I might refuse. I have got you out of two messes already, which were hardly in the original bargain, so that I am, I think, already owed some reward.
初，邵陵王纶以衡阳王献为齐州刺史，镇齐昌；任约击擒之，送建康，杀之。献，畅之孙也。
But 'third time pays for all' as my father used to say, and somehow I don't think I shall refuse. Perhaps I have begun to trust my luck more than I used to in the old days" — he meant last spring before he left his own house, but it seemed centuries ago — "but anyway I think I will go and have a peep at once and get it over. Now who is coming with me?"
He did not expect a chorus of volunteers, so he was not disappointed. Fili and Kili looked uncomfortable and stood on One leg, but the others made no pretence of offering — except old Balin. the look-out man, who was rather fond the hobbit. He said he would come inside at least and perhaps a bit of the way too, really to call for help if necessary.
乙亥，进侯景位相国，封二十郡，为汉王，加殊礼。
The most that can be said for the dwarves is this: they intended to pay Bilbo really handsomely for his services; they had brought him to do a nasty job for them, and they did not mind the poor little fellow doing it if he would; but they would all have done their best to get him out of trouble, if he got into it, as they did in the case of the trolls at the beginning of their adventures before they had any particular reasons for being grateful to him.
There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
岳阳王詧还襄阳。
The stars were coming out behind him in a pale sky barred with black when the hobbit crept through the enchanted door and stole into the Mountain. It was far easier going than he expected. This was no goblin entrance, or rough wood-elves' cave. It was a passage made by dwarves, at the height of their wealth and skill: straight as a ruler, smooth-floored and smooth-sided, going with a gentle never-varying slope direct-to some distant end in the blackness below.
げめヽンザぐモポ
黎州民攻刺史张贲，贲弃城走。州民引氐酋北益州刺史杨法琛据黎州，命王、贾二姓诣武陵王纪请法琛为刺史。纪深责之，囚法琛质子崇颙、崇虎。冬，十月，丁丑朔，法琛遣使附魏。
After a while Balin bade Bilbo "Good luck!" and stopped where he could still see the faint outline of the door, and by a trick of, the echoes of the tunnel hear the rustle of the whispering voices of the others just outside.
Then the hobbit slipped on his ring, and warned by the echoes to take more than hobbit's care to make no sound, he crept noiselessly down, down, down into the dark. He was trembling with fear, but his little face was set and grim.
己卯，齐主至晋阳宫。广武王长弼与幷州刺史段韶不协，齐主将如晋阳，长弼言于帝曰：“韶拥强兵在彼，恐不如人意，岂可径往投之！”帝不听。旣至，以长弼语告之，曰：“如君忠诚，人犹有谗，况其余乎！”长弼，永乐之弟也。乙酉，以特进元韶为尚书左仆射，段韶为右仆射。
Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages. He loosened his dagger in its sheath, tightened his belt, and went on.
乙未，侯景自加宇宙大将军、都督六合诸军事，以诏文呈上。上惊曰：“将军乃有宇宙之号乎！”
"Now you are in for it at last, Bilbo Baggins," he said to himself. "You went and put your foot right in it that night of the party, and now you have got to pull it out and pay for it! Dear me, what a fool I was and am!" said the least Tookish part of him. "I have absolutely no use for dragon-guarded treasures, and the whole lot could stay here for ever, if only I could wake up and find this beastly tunnel was my own front-hall at home!"
He did not wake up of course, but went still on and on, till all sign of the door behind had faded away. He was altogether alone. Soon he thought it was beginning to feel warm. "Is that a kind of a glow I seem to see coming right ahead down there?" he thought. It was. As he went forward it grew and grew, till there was no doubt about it. It was a red light steadily getting redder and redder. Also it was now undoubtedly hot in the tunnel. Wisps of vapour floated up and past him and he began to sweat. A sound, too, began to throb in his ears, a sort of bubbling like the noise of a large pot galloping on the fire, mixed with a rumble as of a gigantic tom-cat purring. This grew to the unmistakable gurgling noise of some vast animal snoring in its sleep down there in the red glow in front of him.
立皇子大钧为西阳王，大威为武宁王，大球为建安王，大昕为义安王，大挚为绥建王，大圜为乐梁王。
It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
齐东徐州刺史行台辛术镇下邳。十一月，侯景征租入建康，术帅众度淮断之，烧其榖百万石，遂围阳平，景行台郭元建引兵救之。壬戌，术略三千余家，还下邳。
At any rate after a short halt go on he did; and you can picture him coming to the end of the tunnel, an opening of much the same size and shape as the door above. Through it peeps the hobbit's little head. Before him lies the great bottommost cellar or dungeon-hall of the ancient dwarves right at the Mountain's root.
武陵王纪帅诸军发成都，湘东王绎遣使以书止之曰：“蜀人勇悍，易动难安，弟可镇之，吾自当灭贼。”又别纸曰：“地拟孙、刘，各安境界；情深鲁、卫，书信恒通。”
It is almost dark so that its vastaess can only be dimly guessed, but rising from the near side of the rocky floor there is a great glow. The glow of Smaug!
There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.
甲子，南平王恪帅文武拜笺推湘东王绎为相国，总百揆；绎不许。
Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.
Behind him where the walls were nearest could dimly be seen coats of mail, helms and axes, swords and spears hanging; and there in rows stood great jars and vessels filled with a wealth that could not be guessed. To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.
魏丞相泰自弘农为桥，济河，至建州。丙寅，齐主自将出顿东城。泰闻其军容严盛，叹曰：“高欢不死矣！”会久雨，自秋及冬，魏军畜产多死，乃自蒲阪还。于是河南自洛阳，河北自平阳已东，皆入于齐。
There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. Bilbo had heard tell and sing of dragon-hoards before, but the splendour, the lust, the glory of such treasure had never yet come home to him.
His heart was filled and pierced with enchantment and with the desire of dwarves; and he gazed motionless, almost forgetting the frightful guardian, at the gold beyond price and count.
丁卯，徐文盛军贝矶，任约帅水军逆战，文盛大破之，斩叱罗子通、赵威方，仍进军大举口。侯景遣宋子仙等将兵二万助约，以约守西阳，久不能进，自出屯晋熙。
He gazed for what seemed an age, before drawn almost against his will, he stole from the shadow of the doorway, across the floor to the nearest edge of the mounds of treasure. Above him the sleeping dragon lay, a dire menace even in his sleep. He grasped a great two-handled cup, as heavy as he could carry, and cast one fearful eye upwards. Smaug stirred a wing, opened a claw, the rumble of his snoring changed its note.
Then Bilbo fled. But the dragon did not wake-not yet but shifted into other dreams of greed and violence, lying there in his stolen hall while the little hobbit toiled back up the long tunnel.
南康王会理以建康空虚，与太子左卫将军柳敬礼、西乡侯劝、东乡侯勔谋起兵诛王伟。安乐侯乂理出奔长芦，集众得千余人。建安侯贲、中宿世子子邕知其谋，以告伟。伟收会理、敬礼、劝、勔及会理弟祁阳侯通理，俱杀之。乂理为左右所杀。钱塘褚冕，以会理故旧，捶掠千计，终无异言。会理隔壁谓之曰：“褚郎，卿岂不为我致此？卿虽忍死明我，我心实欲杀贼！”冕竟不服，景乃宥之。劝，昺之子；贲，正德之弟子；子邕，憺之孙也。
His heart was beating and a more fevered shaking was in his legs than when he was going down, but still he clutched the cup, and his chief thought was: "I've done it! This will show them. 'More like a grocer than a burglar' indeed! Well, we'll hear no more of that."
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帝自卽位以来，景防卫甚严，外人莫得进见，唯武林侯咨及仆射王克、舍人殷不害，并以文弱得出入卧内，帝与之讲论而已。及会理死，克、不害惧祸，稍自疏。咨独不离帝，朝请无绝；景恶之，使其仇人刁戍刺杀咨于广莫门外。
Nor did he. Balin was overjoyed to see the hobbit again, and as delighted as he was surprised. He picked Bilbo up and carried him out into the open air.
It was midnight and clouds had covered the stars, but Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping and taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themselves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
帝之卽位也，景与帝登重云殿，礼佛为誓云：“自今君臣两无猜贰，臣固不负陛下，陛下亦不得负臣！”及会理谋泄，景疑帝知之，故杀咨。帝自知不久，指所居殿谓殷不害曰：“庞涓当死此下。”
The dwarves were still passing the cup from hand to hand and talking delightedly of the recovery of their treasure, when suddenly a vast rumbling woke in the mountain underneath as if it was an old volcano that had made up its mind to start eruptions once again. The door behind them was pulled nearly to, and blocked from closing with a stone, but up the long tunnel came the dreadful echoes, from far down in the depths, of a bellowing and a trampling that made the ground beneath them tremble.
景自帅众讨杨白华于宣城，白华力屈而降，景以其北人，全之，以为左民尚书，诛其兄子彬以报来亮之怨。
Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright.
Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.
十二月，丙子朔，景封建安侯贲为竟陵王，中宿世子子邕为随王，仍赐姓侯氏。
He had passed from an uneasy dream (in which a warrior, altogether insignificant in size but provided with a bitter sword and great courage, figured most unpleasantly) to a doze, and from a doze to wide waking. There was a breath of strange air in his cave.
辛丑，齐主还邺。
Could there be a draught from that little hole? He had never felt quite happy about it, though was so small, and now he glared at it in suspicion an wondered why he had never blocked it up. Of late he had half fancied he had caught the dim echoes of a knocking sound from far above that came down through it to his lair.
邵陵王纶在汝南，修城池，集士卒，将图安陆。魏安州刺史马佑以告丞相泰，泰遣杨忠将万人救安陆。
He stirred and stretched forth his neck to sniff. Then he missed the cup!
Thieves! Fire! Murder!
武陵王纪遣潼州刺史杨干运、南梁州刺史谯淹合兵二万讨杨法琛，法琛发兵据剑阁以拒之。
Such a thing had not happened since first he came to the Mountain! His rage passes description — the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. His fire belched forth, the hall smoked, he shook the mountain-roots. He thrust his head in vain at the little hole, and then coiling his length together, roaring like thunder underground, he sped from his deep lair through its great door, out into the huge passages of the mountain-palace and up towards the Front Gate.
侯景还建康。
To hunt the whole mountain till he had caught the thief and had torn and trampled him was his one thought.