英语听书《白鲸记》第753期

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embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the noon-day air. 环抱着半个水平面，原来是络绎不绝的一串大鲸的喷水，正在午刻的空中光闪闪的向上迸射着。

Unlike the straight perpendicular¹ twin-jets of the Right Whale, which, dividing at top, 它跟露脊鲸的笔直的双喷水不同，露脊鲸的双喷水喷出来后，

falls over in two branches, like the cleft² drooping³ boughs⁴ of a willow⁵, 就在上边分成两支又淌下来，活象尖裂垂挂的柳枝。

the single forward-slanting spout⁶ of the Sperm⁷ Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually rising and falling away to leeward⁸. 抹香鲸那种向前斜冲的单喷水，却现出一丛稠密缠绕。有如灌木的白雾，不断往上冒着，又不断落向后边。

Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of the sea, 这时，站在"裴廓德号"的甲板上看去，这艘船好象就要攀上一座高山似的海洋，

this host of vapory spouts⁹, individually curling up into the air, and beheld¹⁰ through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze¹¹, 那堆雾蒙蒙的喷水，一串串地袅袅升向空际，透过那层交混着浅蓝色的雾障看去，

showed like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense¹² metropolis¹³, descried¹⁴ of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height. 有如一个站在高岗上的骑者，在一个令人神往的秋晨，突然看到一个人烟稠密的大都市的无数令人高兴的烟囱。

As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile¹⁵ in the mountains, 好象一支在山间行进的大军走到了一条曲折的隘路，

accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous¹⁶ passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; 立刻都加速步伐，急于要走出那条险径，想再度舒畅地走在比较安全的平原上；

even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; 这一大队现在似乎在急忙穿过海峡的鲸群，就正是这般情况；

gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre. 它们慢慢地缩小着那半圆形的两翼，紧密地挤在一起，但还象一小弯蛾眉新月似的，继续向前游去。

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