英语听书《白鲸记》第824期

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　　the bowels² of the ship are thrown open, and down go the casks to their final rest in the sea. 让这艘船的肚皮敞开来，把许多大桶给滚到它们海里的最后的休憩所去。

　　This done, the hatches are replaced, and hermetically closed, like a closet walled up. 这样做完以后，又关上舱口，而且象是一间堵塞的储藏室一般，给密封起来。

　　In the sperm³ fishery, this is perhaps one of the most remarkable⁴ incidents in all the business of whaling. 在捕抹香鲸业中，这桩事情，也许是各种捕鲸工作中最为重大的事件之一。

　　One day the planks⁵ stream with freshets of blood and oil; on the sacred quarter-deck enormous masses of the whale's head are profanely⁶ piled; 今天，船板上都涌着奔流似的血和油；在那神圣不可侵犯的后甲板上，也大韪不敬地堆起许多硕大的鲸头块；

　　great rusty⁷ casks lie about, as in a brewery⁸ yard; the smoke from the try-works has besooted all the bulwarks⁹; the mariners¹⁰ go about suffused¹¹ with unctuousness¹²;  到处散置着许多生锈的大桶，好象一个酿酒厂的作场；炼油间的浓烟把所有的舷墙都熏黑了；水手们满身浸透油质，走来走去；

　　the entire ship seems great leviathan himself; while on all hands the din¹³ is deafening¹⁴. 整艘船就象是只大鲸；各方面的轰轰嚷嚷声弄得耳朵都要聋了。

　　But a day or two after, you look about you, and prick¹⁵ your ears in this self-same ship! 可是，一两天后，你往四下一瞧，在这艘船里竖起耳朵来听吧！

　　and were it not for the tell-tale boats and try-works, you would all but swear you trod some silent merchant vessel¹⁶,  要不是还有那种小艇和炼油间的物证的话，你准会断定是走上了一艘冷清清的商船，

　　with a most scrupulously¹⁷ neat commander. 船里还有一个极其整洁的船长呢。

　　The unmanufactured sperm oil possesses a singularly cleansing¹⁸ virtue¹⁹. 未加工的抹香鲸油本身就有一种非常干净的特点。

　　This is the reason why the decks never look so white as just after what they call an affair of oil. 这也就是在他们做完了所谓油事后，甲板显得比前更加雪白的道理了。

　　Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps²⁰ of the whale, a potent²¹ lye is readily made; 此外，烧过了的鲸渣灰就是现成的富有效力的硷水；

　　and whenever any adhesiveness²² from the back of the whale remains²³ clinging to the side, that lye quickly exterminates²⁴ it. 随时发现船舷上还粘有鲸脊的残渣，硷水就立刻把它消灭了。

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