英语听书《白鲸记》第652期

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　　(a woman's pinny hand,—the man's wife, I'll wager) （是女人的纤细的笔迹——是收信人的老婆，我打赌）

　　Aye—Mr. Harry Macey, Ship Jeroboam; why it's Macey, and he's dead!" 哟——哈利。梅赛先生，'耶罗波安号'；——怎么，就是梅赛先生，他已经死啦！"

　　Poor fellow! poor fellow! and from his wife, sighed Mayhew; "but let me have it." 可怜的家伙！可怜的家伙！是他老婆写来的，梅休叹道；"把信交给我吧。"

　　Nay², keep it thyself, cried Gabriel to Ahab; "thou art soon going that way." 不，还是你自己藏着吧，迦百列对亚哈嚷道；"你就快上那边去啦。"

　　Curses throttle³ thee! yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; 鬼卡住你的喉咙！亚哈高声叫喊。"梅休船长，现在请接吧；

　　and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit⁴ of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat. "他从斯达巴克手里拿过那封不祥的信，把它夹在柄端的缝里，向小艇那边伸过去。

　　But as he did so, the oarsmen expectantly desisted from rowing; the boat drifted a little towards the ship's stern; 可是，他在这样做的时候，桨手们都观望地停止扳桨；小艇稍微荡向船梢；

　　so that, as if by magic, the letter suddenly ranged along with Gabriel's eager hand. 所以，仿佛有一股魔力似的，那封信突然跟迦百列那只急切伸着的手并拢了。

　　He clutched it in an instant, seized the boat-knife, and impaling⁶ the letter on it, sent it thus loaded back into the ship. 他立刻把信攫住，抓起小刀，把信嵌在刀里，连刀带信掷进船里，

　　It fell at Ahab's feet. 恰好落在亚哈脚边。

　　Then Gabriel shrieked⁷ out to his comrades to give way with their oars⁵, 然后，迦百列对他的伙伴们尖声大叫，要他们赶紧扳桨。

　　and in that manner the mutinous⁸ boat rapidly shot away from the Pequod. 于是，那只抗命的小艇就快得象箭一般跟"裴廓德号"分开了。

　　As, after this interlude, the seamen⁹ resumed their work upon the jacket of the whale,  这段插曲过后，水手们又重新忙着处理大鲸那件外套（大鲸那件外套——指鲸皮。）了，

　　many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild affair. 可是，就这一荒唐的事件而论；它已经暗示出许多怪事来了。

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