英语听书《白鲸记》第444期

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Then, in darting¹ at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate³, corporal animosity;  当时,他手里拿着刀,正在猛击那只巨兽,他只顾恣情发泄那种突如其来的。

and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing⁴ bodily laceration, but nothing more.  怒不可遏的。肉体上的仇恨而已;而等到他遭到身体伤残的打击时,说不定他也只是感到体伤的苦恼罢了。

Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish⁵ lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in mid⁶ winter that dreary⁷, howling Patagonian Cape⁸;  可是,等到由于这种猛烈的打击而不得不转道回家,亚哈带着身心极其苦痛而长久地僵卧在吊铺上,在仲冬时节,绕着那凄凉萧瑟的巴达哥尼亚角的时候,

then it was, that his torn body and gashed⁹ soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.  只是到了这时,他的伤残的身躯和伤痕累累的灵魂才彼此交流起来,经过这样渗透,他就发疯了。

That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals¹⁰ during the passage, he was a raving¹¹ lunatic;  只是到了那时,在险遇后的回程中,他这才最后得了偏热症,而且,从事实上说,也似乎是完全正确的,因为在他回程期间,他就成了个乱说乱讲的神经错乱者了。

and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked¹² in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified¹³ by his delirium¹⁴, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock.  不过,虽则他已经失去了一条腿,可他那埃及人的胸膛,还潜存有充沛的力量,并且由于他的精神错乱而益发显得力大无比,所以当时他的大二三副,看到他甚至在那种情况下还是在吊铺里狂叫狂闹,而不得不用带子把他绑了起来。

In a strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales¹⁵.  他就这样穿着一件紧衣,随着狂风的震动而摇来晃去。

And, when running into more sufferable latitudes¹⁶, the ship, with mild stun'sails spread, floated across the tranquil¹⁷ tropics, and, to all appearances, the old man's delirium seemed left behind him with the Cape Horn swells¹⁸, and he came forth¹⁹ from his dark den² into the blessed light and air. 后来,等到驶进比较寒热适中的地带,船上扯起软副帆。驶过平静的热带的时候,这老人的神经错乱,看来似乎也跟合恩角的汹涌巨浪一起撇在后边了,他从他那个黑窠里出来,来到愉快的天气和阳光里。

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