英语听书《白鲸记》第268期

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all hands were in a panic; and to attempt snatching at the boom to stay it, seemed madness.  大家都象发狂一样,乱作一团;想抓着那帆杠使它停下来。

It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of snapping into splinters.  几乎时钟每滴答一下,帆杠就从左到右来回摆了一下,似乎随时都有断成碎片的可能。

Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done;  毫无办法,似乎也想不出什么办法来;

those on deck rushed toward the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw¹ of an exasperated² whale.  甲板上的人们都争相奔到船头,站在那里呆望着那只帆杠,它仿佛就是一条怒不可遏的巨鲸的下颚。

In the midst of this consternation³, Queequeg dropped deftly⁴ to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom,  在这种惊惶失措中,魁魁格灵巧地跪倒在甲板上,在帆杠晃来晃去的地方爬着,

whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks⁵, and then flinging the other like a lasso,  猛地抓住一根索子,他把索子的一端缚到舷墙上,然后等帆杠扫过他头顶的时候,他就象作套索一般急忙将另一端一抛,

caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.  把帆杠兜住了,他再猛地一拉,那根圆材就被这样套住,一切平安无事了。

The schooner⁶ was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat,  当这条纵帆船望风驶去,大家正在收拾船尾的时候,

Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted⁷ from the side with a long living arc of a leap.  魁魁格赤裸着上身,真象个长弧形那么纵身一跳打船侧冲了出去。

For three minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog,  人们看到他象只狗似的游了三四分钟,

throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by turns revealing his brawny⁸ shoulders through the freezing foam⁹.  两条长胳膊直向前面摔去,在冰冷的浪沫里挨次地现出他那结实的左右肩。

I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved.  我望着这个伟大而光荣的伙伴,可是,却看到并没有救起什么人来。

The greenhorn had gone down. Shooting himself perpendicularly¹⁰ from the water,  那个毛头小子已经沉到海里去了。

Queequeg, now took an instant's glance around him, and seeming to see just how matters were,  这时,魁魁格从水里笔直地冒了出来,眼睛迅疾地四下一瞥,似乎是要弄清一下情况,

dived down and disappeared.  又潜进水里。消失了。

A few minutes more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form.  再过几分钟,他又冒了出来,一只手仍在划水,另一只手拖着一个毫无生气的人体。

The boat soon picked them up.  船上的人立刻把他们拉上来。

The poor bumpkin was restored.  可怜那个乡巴佬苏醒过来了。

All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump¹¹; the captain begged his pardon.  大家都盛赞魁魁格是个了不起的好汉;船长也来对他道歉。

From that hour I clove¹² to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive. 从那时起,我就象狗虱子一样死扳住魁魁格不放;而且直扳到可怜的魁魁格永远潜进水里为止。

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