英语听书《白鲸记》第410期

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It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont¹, ascended² the cabin-gangway to the deck.  烟斗事件之后不久,有一天早晨,刚吃过早饭,亚哈象往常那样,从舱门走上甲板来。

There most sea-captains usually walk at that hour, as country gentlemen, after the same meal, take a few turns in the garden. 大多数的船长通常都在这辰光上甲板来散步,就象乡间的绅士吃过早饭后,总在花园里兜个几圈一样。

Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks³ so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented⁴,  不久就听到他那稳健的。牙骨的迈步声,他照老规矩在船板上踱来踱去,船板也很熟悉他的脚步,并且全都布满他那特殊的脚步的凹痕。

like geological stones, with the peculiar⁵ mark of his walk. Did you fixedly⁶ gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints--the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought. 象化石似的。如果你同时也凝注一下他那有棱条和凹痕的额头,你还可以在那上面看到一些更为新奇的脚印...他那种不睡觉。始终在踱方步的思想的脚印。

But on the occasion in question, those dents⁷ looked deeper, even as his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark.  但是,在这会儿所说的这一次,那些凹痕似乎显得更深,如同他那天早晨的不安的脚步留下了更深的痕迹一样。

And, so full of his thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the main-mast and now at the binnacle, you could almost see that thought turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced;  亚哈是这么心事重重,以致他每次有规律地转身的时候...一会儿在主桅这边,一会儿在罗盘台那边...简直教人看得出他一转身,他身上的思想也在转身,他一踱步,他身上的思想也在踱步了;

so completely possessing him, indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mould of every outer movement. 他真是这么完全一门心思,以致这心事似乎就是个模子,把内心的活动都印在外表的每个动作上。

D'ye mark him, Flask⁸? whispered Stubb; the chick that's in him pecks the shell.Twill soon be out. 你可注意到他吗?弗拉斯克?斯塔布悄没声儿地说道;他心里头的雏鸡在啄壳喽,快要出壳啦。

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