英语听书《白鲸记》第205期

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And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark¹ mad, and I've no idea of sleeping with a madman;  所以,首先,请你做做好事,收回那个关于卖他的头的故事,因为如果这个故事是属实的话,那我可以充分判明这个标枪手完全是个疯子,我可不愿意跟一个疯子睡觉;

and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly would thereby² render yourself liable to a criminal prosecution³. 而你,老兄,我说的是你,老板,你,老兄,明明知道这种情况,却打算诱我上你的圈套,你这种做法,我简直可以去控告你。

Wall,said the landlord, fetching a long breath, that's a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then.  哎,店老板长长地抽了一口气,说道,一个爱发火的家伙,倒亏他说出这一大串道理来.

But be easy, be easy, this here harpooneer I have been tellin' you of has just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of balmed New Zealand heads,  可是,莫慌,莫慌,我跟你说的这个标枪手是新从南海来的,他在那边买来了一批香料制的新西兰头,

and he's sold all on 'em but one, and that one he's trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow's Sunday,  全都卖掉了,只剩下一只,他想赶今天晚上把它卖掉,因为明天是礼拜日,

and it would not do to be sellin human heads about the streets when folks is goin' to churches.  大家都要去做礼拜,你在街上兜卖人头,成什么话说。

He wanted to last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin' out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for all the airth like a string of inions. 上一个礼拜天,他就要拿出去卖,可是,正当他手里拿着四只串在绳子上的头,活象提着一串大葱头要出门的时候,给我拦住了。

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