towhead

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

towhead

n. 淡黄色头发的人