英语听书《白鲸记》第641期

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　　then slowly getting into the main-chains, he took Stubb's long spade, 然后慢慢地钻到那些大锚链里去，顺手捡起斯塔布那只长铲子,

　　still remaining there after the whale's decapitation and striking it into the lower part of the half-suspended mass, 这只铲子在斩过鲸头后还是放在那里——把它直对那只半悬空着的大东西的下半截猛击一下，

　　placed its other end crutchwise under one arm, and so stood leaning over with eyes attentively¹ fixed² on this head. 又把铲子掉过头来，撑拐杖似的抵在腋下，就这么倚着站在那里，全神贯注地紧瞪着这只头。

　　It was a black and hooded³ head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert. 这一只黑色的、包了头巾似的头，挂在那里，挂在这样非常静寂的氛围里，象是沙漠里的狮身男头的巨像。

　　"Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, "你说呀，你这个又大又老的头，"亚哈喃喃道，"你虽然没有长上胡须，

　　yet here and there lookest hoary⁴ with mosses⁵; speak, mighty⁶ head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. 可是，这里那里都象是让苔鲜弄得毛茸茸了；说话呀，你这大头，把你那里面的秘密告诉我们吧。

　　Of all divers⁷, thou hast dived the deepest. 在一切潜水者中，数你潜得最深。

　　That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world's foundations. 这只上天的太阳现在正在照着的头，一向是在海底里活动的。

　　Where unrecorded names and navies rust⁸, and untold⁹ hopes and anchors rot; 在海底里，多少未经泄漏的希望和寄托烂了；

　　where in her murderous hold this frigate¹⁰ earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; 在它那凶残的舱房里，这个快速舰似的人间，不知有多少被淹溺者的尸骨做了它的压舱物；

　　there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. 而在那个可怕的水乡里，却有你的最亲切的家。

　　Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor's side, where sleepless¹¹ mothers would give their lives to lay them down.  你曾经到过潜水钟和潜水者从未到达的地方，在那里，你曾经睡在许多水手的身边，那地方，也是许多睡不着的母亲会献出她们自己的生命去躺下的地方。

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