英语听书《白鲸记》第838期

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The Pequod of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London 南塔开特的裴廓德号遇到伦敦的"撒母耳·恩德比号"

Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale? 船呀！可看到白鲸么？

So cried Ahab, once more hailing a ship showing English colors, bearing down under the stern. 亚哈又看到后边有一艘挂英国旗的船，就这样喊道。

Trumpet¹ to mouth, the old man was standing² in his hoisted³ quarter-boat, 这老头儿，号筒凑在嘴边，站在他那吊在后甲板的小艇上，

his ivory leg plainly revealed to the stranger captain, who was carelessly reclining in his own boat's bow. 他那只牙腿已经让那个陌生船长看得一清二楚了，那船长正漫不经心地倚在他自己的小艇头。

He was a darkly-tanned, burly, goodnatured, fine-looking man,  他皮肤黝黑，身体结实，面容和蔼，相貌端正，

of sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious⁴ roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth; 六十左右的年纪，穿着件宽大的短上衣，好象围着一条饰有流苏的蓝粗呢毡子；

and one empty arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a huzzar's surcoat. 他那外套的一只空洞洞的袖筒，象中世纪武士铠甲上的长衣的一只绣花的臂筒，在他后边随风飘展。

Hast seen the White Whale! 可看到白鲸么？

See you this? and withdrawing it from the folds that had hidden it, he held up a white arm of sperm⁵ whale bone, terminating in a wooden head like a mallet⁶. 你看见这东西吗？他把藏在围布底下的手臂拉出来，把那只用抹香鲸骨做的白手臂高高举起，这只手臂的末端镶有一段木锤似的木头。

Man my boat! cried Ahab, impetuously, and tossing about the oars⁷ near him—"Stand by to lower!" 准备我的小艇！亚哈一边急躁地叫道，一边翻动着身旁的木桨——"准备下水！"

In less than a minute, without quitting his little craft, he and his crew were dropped to the water, and were soon alongside of the stranger. 不到一分钟工夫，他连人带小艇以及他的水手都给放下海里，不一会，便靠拢了那艘陌生船。

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