英语听书《白鲸记》第682期
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（单词翻译）
When two large, loaded Indian-men chance to crowd and crush towards each other in the docks, what do the sailors do? 当两个身材高大、喝醉了酒的印度群岛人偶然在码头上打起架来的时候，你想水手们是怎样办的？
They do not suspend between them, at the point of coming contact, any merely hard substance, like iron or wood. 在两人就要相碰的时分，他们可不用什么铁器或者木头那种硬东西，来从中拦住他们。
No, they hold there a large, round wad of tow and
cork1,
enveloped2 in the thickest and toughest of ox-hide. 不，他们是用一个外面包着最厚最粗的生牛皮，里面塞着绳索的又圆又大的东西。
That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crow-bars. 那件无畏而不会伤人的东西往那中间一塞，那股力量准会教一切橡木梃和铁撬都给折断。
But
supplementary5 to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, 不过，这里得补充一点（这也是我偶然想到的臆测），
that as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them, capable, at will, of
distension6 or
contraction7; 那就是，普通鱼类的身上都有一种能够自由胀缩的、叫做鳔的东西；
and as the
Sperm8 Whale, as far as I know, has no such provision in him; 然而，就我所知，抹香鲸身上可没有这种设备；
considering, too, the otherwise
inexplicable9 manner in which he now depresses his head altogether beneath the surface, 而且，就它那以另一种费解的姿势，一会儿把头完全沉到水里，
and anon swims with it high elevated out of the water; considering the unobstructed
elasticity10 of its envelope; 再一会儿又用那姿势从水里把头高高抬起而游去的情况说来，就它那层包着的东西具有伸缩自如的能耐说来，
considering the unique interior of his head; it has hypothetically occurred to me, I say, 就它那只珍奇无双的头颅的内部结构说来；我说，我偶然所想到的臆测就是，
that those mystical lung-celled honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and unsuspected connexion with the outer air, 它那些奥妙的肺细胞似的蜂窝可能还有一种直到如今还未被发现、而又无疑是跟外面空气有联系的东西，
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