英语听书《白鲸记》第263期

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using, however, my comrade's money. The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders,  不过,用的却是我的同伴的钱.那个咧开大嘴笑的店老板和那些客人,

seemed amazingly tickled² at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg 对于我跟魁魁格这种突然发生的友谊,似乎极感有趣...

especially as Peter Coffin's cock and bull stories about him had previously³ so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with. 尤其是彼得科芬,因为他对于我现在所结交的这个人所编造的荒诞无稽的故事,先前曾经把我大大吓了一场.

We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking⁴ our things, including my own poor carpet-bag,  我们借来了一辆独轮车,装上我们的东西后,

and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to the Moss,the little Nantucket packet schooner⁵ moored⁶ at the wharf⁷.  就离开客店,往那只停在码头上的南塔开特小邮船摩斯号进发。

As we were going along the people stared;  我们一路走去,人们都目不转睛地看着我们;

not at Queequeg so much-for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets,but at seeing him and me upon such confidential⁸ terms.  看的倒不象是魁魁格...因为他们经常在街上看到象魁魁格这样的野人...而是在看我竟跟他有这样亲密的友谊。

But we heeded⁹ them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon¹⁰ barbs¹¹.  但是,我们不理他们,径自轮流推着独轮车走去,魁魁格不时地停下来,端正一下他那标枪钩的鞘子。

I asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore¹², and whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons¹³.  我问他为什么要把这么累赘的东西带上岸来,是不是所有的捕鲸船都不置办自己的标枪。

To this, in substance, he replied, that though what I hinted was true enough, yet he had a particular affection for his own harpoon,  对于这个问题,他具体地回答道,我所提到的虽很不错,然而,他则是特别爱他自己的标枪,

because it was of assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat, and deeply intimate with the hearts of whales.  因为这是用可靠的材料打起来的,饱经许多生死的决斗,同许多大鲸的心脏打过多次交道。

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