英语听书《白鲸记》第452期

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and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially⁴ employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord;  虽则在神圣。浮夸的罗马教的教条中,白色是特别用以纪念"我主的受难日"的;

though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed⁵, and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great-white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there white like wool;  虽则在圣徒约翰的《启示录》中,白袍是专给赎罪的人,专给二十四个穿着白衣。站在伟大的白色宝座前的长老穿的,而且坐在那里的上帝也象羊毛一样白;

yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime⁶, there yet lurks⁷ an elusive⁸ something in the innermost idea of this hue⁹, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood. 然而,尽管有这些累积起来的。不管是快乐的。体面的。还是庄严的联想,但是,在这种颜色的最深切的意想中,却隐藏有一种无从捉摸的东西,这种东西,其令人惊恐的程度,实在远超于赛似鲜血的猩红色。

This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly¹⁰ associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.  正是由于这种无从捉摸的性质,使得人们一旦丢弃那些比较善良的联想,与任何一种可怖的东西联想起来的时候,便会教人一想到白色,不禁越发加深恐怖的程度。

Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of the tropics;  以南北两极的白熊和热带的白鲨鱼为证来说;

what but their smooth, flaky whiteness makes them the transcendent horrors they are?  不正是它们那光滑的。片片的白色,才使得它们比原来格外可怖么?

That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent¹¹ mildness, even more loathsome¹² than terrific, to the dumb gloating of their aspect.  正是那种如此恶俗的冷冷的苍白色,加上它们那种笨头笨脑。臃臃肿肿的相貌,才不仅令人感到可怕,甚至还更令人嫌恶。

So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded bear or shark. 所以,象那种全身雪白的熊或者鲨鱼。

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