英语听书《白鲸记》第806期

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　　but from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said he was. 可是，打那时起，这个小黑人就成了个白痴，在甲板上走来走去，至少他们是这么说。

　　The sea had jeeringly¹ kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. 大海开玩笑似地没叫他那有限的身躯给沉下去，却把他那无限的灵魂给淹死了。

　　Not drowned entirely², though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous³ depths, 虽说没有把他完全淹死，却把他活生生的拉到那个奇妙的深渊里去过，

　　where strange shapes of the unwarped primal⁴ world glided⁵ to and fro before his passive eyes; 在那里，他那双不由自主的眼睛看到的是，原形毕露的世界的那些怪物在他眼前闪来闪去；

　　and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded⁶ heaps; 那个吝啬鬼的人鱼——智慧之神，也把他所囤藏的无数财宝都显露了出来；

　　and among the joyous⁷, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament⁸ of waters heaved the colossal⁹ orbs¹⁰. 比普从海里的苍穹冒出来，而鼓起的那两只奇大的眼珠，在那快活、无情、长春、永恒不变的事物中，看到了上帝所普遍创造的、各种各样珊瑚似的昆虫，

　　He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom¹¹, and spoke¹² it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. 他说，他看到了上帝的脚踩在纺车的踏板上；因此，他的伙伴们管他叫疯子。

　　So man's insanity¹³ is heaven's sense; 所以，人的神经错乱就是天意；

　　and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial¹⁴ thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic¹⁵; 人一失去了所有的性命交关的理性，终于不免要有升天的念头，这种念头，在有理性的人看来，是荒谬而疯狂的。

　　and weal or woe¹⁶, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God. 那么，是祸是福，就让那个顽固、淡漠的上帝去想吧。

　　For the rest blame not Stubb too hardly. 至于其他的人，倒不很责怪斯塔布。

　　The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative¹⁷, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself. 这种事情在捕鱼业中本来就是司空见惯的。而且，到了本书结束时，还将看到我也遭到什么样的抛弃。

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