英语听书《白鲸记》第742期

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Nor does this—its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful¹ flexion of its motions; 它这种惊人的力量，一点也不会使它那柔雅的动作有所逊色；

where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power. 动作柔和自如好象是通过一种巨人似的力量而波动起伏。

On the contrary, those motions derive² their most appalling³ beauty from it. 相反地，这种动作产生一种非常令人惊骇的美感。

Real strength never impairs⁴ beauty or harmony, but it often bestows⁵ it; 真正的力量决不会破坏美或者和谐，而是往往更赋它以美，

and in everything imposingly⁶ beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. 同时，凡是富丽堂皇的东西，力量就跟不可思议的魔力极有关系。

Take away the tied tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved Hercules, and its charm would be gone. 如果把雕刻品的海格立斯那种似乎要从大理石炸出来的、满布全身的紧张肌肉都给毁掉，它的诱人的力量也就完全消失了。

As devout⁷ Eckerman lifted the linen⁸ sheet from the naked corpse⁹ of Goethe, 正如虔敬的爱克曼从歌德的赤裸的尸体上揭起麻布被单，

he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch. 看到歌德的结实的胸脯，而大为感动一样，因为那胸脯就跟罗马的凯旋拱门一模一样。

When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what robustness¹⁰ is there. 当安哲罗（意大利十六世纪的画家。）甚至把圣父画成人形的时候，也画得多么壮健。

And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, 那些柔和委婉、具有雌雄同体的意大利画，不管它是怎样显示出了圣子的圣爱，

in which his idea has been most successfully embodied¹¹; these pictures, so destitute¹² as they are of all brawniness¹³, hint nothing of any power, 都挺成功地体现出了作者的意念，尽管那些画画得那么缺乏结实的肌肉，除了显出一种消极的、女性的屈从与忍耐的神气，一点也显示不出力量，

but the mere¹⁴ negative, feminine one of submission¹⁵ and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar¹⁶ practical virtues¹⁷ of his teachings. 但从它各方面所表现出来的气派说来，却形成了作者的理论的特别切合实际的特点。

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