英语听书《白鲸记》第399期

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that the trembling Dough-Boy almost looked to see whether any marks of teeth lurked² in his own lean arms.  响得教那个抖颤颤的汤团简直要看看他自己那双瘦骨嶙峋的臂膀,是否给咬上了齿痕。

And when he would hear Tashtego singing out for him to produce himself, that his bones might be picked, the simple-witted Steward³ all but shattered the crockery hanging round him in the pantry, by his sudden fits of the palsy.  这个头脑简单的茶房一听到塔斯蒂哥高声叫嚷,要他去帮着把齿缝里的骨头拔出来的时候,就突然瘫倒了,浑身抖得连挂在厨房四周的陶器都震动了。

Nor did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for their lances and other weapons;  标枪手们的袋里都藏有一块磨刀磨枪的磨刀石,他们吃饭时,还会铺张扬厉地拿出来磨他们的餐刀;

and with which whetstones, at dinner, they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy.  那种磨擦声也不见得会叫这个可怜的汤团安宁。

How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial⁴ indiscretion. Alas⁵! Dough-Boy! hard fares the white waiter who waits upon cannibals.  象魁魁格这样的人,怎不教汤团认为他在他自己的岛上时,一定曾经一时兴发,犯过凶杀罪呢。

Not a napkin should he carry on his arm, but a buckler.  可怜的汤团呀!一个白种人侍者去服侍生番,是个多不好受的差使呀。

In good time, though, to his great delight, the three salt-sea warriors⁶ would rise and depart; to his credulous⁷, fable-mongering ears, all their martial⁸ bones jingling⁹ in them at every step, like Moorish¹⁰ scimetars in scabbards. 他臂膀上需要挂的不是一条饭巾,而是一只盾牌。不过,到了适当时机,叫他大为高兴的是,这三个海上武士就会立起身来走了;在他那副轻信流言的耳朵听来,他们那尚武的身体,每一举步所发出来的一切声音,就跟摩尔人那插在剑鞘里的弯刀声一样。

But, though these barbarians¹¹ dined in the cabin, and nominally¹² lived there;  但是,这些野人虽然是在船长室里吃饭,并且名义上也是住在那儿的;

still, being anything but sedentary in their habits, they were scarcely ever in it except at mealtimes, and just before sleeping-time, when they passed through it to their own peculiar¹³ quarters. 然而,由于他们的天生习惯,他们除了吃饭时间以外,是不大到那里边去的,只不过在睡觉前,他们为了要到他们的住处,这才经过了一下而已。

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