第一男猪脚已经出现啦。。。看看海怪有什么新消息吧。记得翻译得分哈！

While these events were taking place, I had just returned from doing scientific research in the disagreeable American state of Nebraska. I was, at that time, the Assistant Professor at the museum of Natural History in Paris. After six months in Nebraska. I arrived in New York at the end of March with many precious things to take back to the museum in Paris. I was to return to France at the beginning of May. Until then, I continued my studies of plants and animals. I had been perfectly informed about the sea monster. I had read all the American and European newspaper still without being able to explain the terrible events. I sometimes believed there to be a sea monster, indeed, but at other times, I knew such things were impossible.

发生这些事情的时候，我当从美国内布拉斯加州做完科研回来，那里真不讨人喜欢。那时我还是巴黎自然历史博物馆的一个助理教授。我在内布拉斯加呆了半年后，三月底满载着要带回巴黎博物馆的珍贵物品来到纽约。五月初我返回法国，然后继续研究植物和动物。

I arrived in New York shortly after the British ship was damaged. The idea of the sea monster being a floating island was soon forgotten, as the monster traveled great distances in quite a short amount of time. People now believed one of two things, that either it was a monster with great strength or a submarine with a powerful motor.

在英国轮船受损后不久，我来到纽约。认为那个庞然大物是浮岛的想法很快被人们抛在脑后，因为海怪在如此短的时间内移动这么远的距离。人们认为它只能是这两者之一：要么是力大无比的海怪，要么是拥有强大动力的潜艇。