英语听书《白鲸记》第845期

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that I myself—that is to say, Jack¹ Bunger, late of the reverend clergy—am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink-" 我本人——就是说，我杰克·彭格，从前的牧师——可是个绝对滴酒不沾的人；我从来不喝——"

Water! cried the captain; "he never drinks it; it's a sort of fits to him; 水！那船长叫道；"他从来不喝水；水会叫他发老毛病的；

fresh water throws him into the hydrophobia; but go on—go on with the arm story." 淡水会叫他得恐水病；不过，说下去吧——把手臂的故事说下去吧。"

Yes, I may as well, said the surgeon, coolly. 好的，我还是，那船医沉着地说。

"I was about observing, sir, before Captain Boomer's facetious² interruption, "回到刚才布默船长那引人发笑的插话之前的说话，先生，我当时差不多看出了，

that spite of my best and severest endeavors, the wound kept getting worse and worse; 尽管我非常精心致意，严加努力，可是那伤口却越来越糟；

the truth was, sir, it was as ugly gaping³ wound as surgeon ever saw; more than two feet and several inches long. 事实上，先生，那个难看的裂口确是一般外科医生从来未曾见到的，大约有两英尺几英寸长。

I measured it with the lead line. 这是我用测深索量出来的。

In short, it grew black; I knew what was threatened, and off it came. 总之，伤口发黑了；我知道它会有什么危险，必须把它锯掉才行。

But I had no hand in shipping⁴ that ivory arm there; that thing is against all rule" 可是，我又没有办法去弄那只骨手，这事情是违反一切规章的。"

pointing at it with the marlingspike—"that is the captain's work, not mine; he ordered the carpenter to make it; 他用解索针指着那只骨手——"那是船长的工作，不是我的工作；他命令木匠给他做；

he had that club-hammer there put to the end, to knock some one's brains out with, I suppose, as he tried mine once. 他要给装上一把木榔头，我想，那是要用来敲烂人家的脑袋的，他就曾经要敲我的脑袋。

He flies into diabolical⁵ passions sometimes. 他有时候会勃然大怒。

Do ye see this dent⁶, sir"—removing his hat, and brushing aside his hair, and exposing a bowl-like cavity in his skull⁷, 你可看到这个凹痕，先生——"他摘下帽子，把头发掠在一边，脑壳上露出个碗口大的洞洞，

but which bore not the slightest scarry trace, or any token of ever having been a wound, 可是一点也看不出疤痕，或者任何足以表示受过伤的痕记，

"Well, the captain there will tell you how that came there; he knows." "唔，事情的经过，船长会说给你听；他心里有数。"

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