英语听书《白鲸记》第243期

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That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded smugglers! the contraband⁴ was Jonah. But the sea rebels; he will not bear the wicked burden.  那只船,朋友们,是第一只有记录的走私船!违禁品就是约拿.但是大海反抗起来了;它不愿意背负这种邪恶的重担。

A dreadful storm comes on, the ship is like to break.  突然起了一阵吓人的暴风雨,那只船就象要被冲破似的。

But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her; when boxes, bales, and jars are clattering⁵ overboard;  但是,当水手长要大家都来卸箱笼。货物和瓶瓶罐罐都唏哩哗啦抛进海里;

when the wind is shrieking⁶, and the men are yelling, and every plank⁷ thunders with trampling⁸ feet right over Jonah's head;  风在尖啸,人们在狂喊,每块船板都给人们踩得直在约拿的头顶轰隆隆响,

in all this raging tumult⁹, Jonah sleeps his hideous¹⁰ sleep. 这样大吵大闹的这个时候,约拿还在做他的恶梦。

He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds¹¹ he the far rush of the mighty¹² whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving¹³ the seas after him.  他看不到漆黑的天际和汹涌的大洋,感觉不到那摇摇晃晃的船身,更听不到也没有注意到那条大鲸这时正在急奔前来,甚至已经是大张着嘴,破浪前进在追赶他了。

Aye, shipmates, Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship-a berth¹⁴ in the cabin as I have taken it, and was fast asleep.  哎,船友们,约拿已经给晃得缩在舱侧里...就是在我上面说的睡舱里那只铺位上熟睡着。

But the frightened master comes to him, and shrieks¹⁵ in his dead ear,What meanest thou, O, sleeper¹⁶! arise! 可是,那个吓坏了的船主跑到他跟前来,直对着他那死人似的耳朵尖叫着,你这沉睡的人呵!怎么啦,起来呀!

Startled from his lethargy by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the deck, grasps a shroud¹⁷, to look out upon the sea.  那声惨叫把他从昏睡里吓醒过来了,约拿摇摇摆摆地立起来,跌跌撞撞地摸上甲板,抓住一根护桅索,望着海上。

But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks¹⁸.  可是,就在这时,从舷墙上冲过来的,犹如一只巨豹似的狂涛直泼在他身上。

Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent¹⁹ runs roaring fore²⁰ and aft, till the mariners²¹ come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.  浪潮就这样后浪推前浪。不住地冲进船来,因为找不到可以迅速出水的地方,水就从船头哗啦啦地涌到船尾,狂奔猛流,直弄得船虽未沉,可是水手们却差不多要给淹死了。

And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward,  这时候,从漆黑的上空那象在深沟巨壑里闪出惊惶的脸色的月光中,吓得发呆的约拿看到了那支耸立在船头斜桅,飕地高高往上翘起,

but soon beat downward again towards the tormented²² deep. 但立刻又猛地往下一翻,落到惊险的深渊里。

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