英语听书《白鲸记》第851期

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I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip² down in the forecastle. 有一回，我在半夜里，曾经在巴塔哥尼亚洋面的什么地方上过这艘船，还在船头楼里喝过一趟香甜的烫啤酒。

It was a fine gam we had, and they were all trumps—every soul on board. 可真是一次愉快的联欢，他们都是些英雄好汉——船上每个人都如此。

A short life to them, and a jolly death. 他们是活得短命，却死得痛快。

And that fine gam I had— long, very long after old Ahab touched her planks³ with his ivory heel— it minds me of the noble, solid, Saxon hospitality of that ship; 我所过的那个愉快的联欢——是距亚哈的牙腿碰上他们的船板以后很久很久的事——使我想起了那艘船完全充满着一种高贵的、实实在在的、萨克逊人的好客精神；

and may my parson forget me, and the devil remember me, if I ever lose sight of it. 但愿我的牧师忘记我，魔鬼惦记我，如果我把它忘记了的话。

Flip? Did I say we had flip? 香甜的烫啤酒？我不是说过我们喝了香甜的烫啤酒么？

Yes, and we flipped⁴ it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; 不错，我们呀，平均每个钟头要喝十个加仑；

and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands— visitors and all—were called to reef topsails, 等到狂风一来（因为在巴塔哥尼亚海上经常要起狂风），大家——包括客人在内——都被请去帮着收起中桅帆，

we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; 可是，我们都头重脚轻，只能互相把彼此缚在帆脚索里高高地吊上去；

and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale⁵, a warning example to all drunken tars⁶. 我们昏头昏脑地把衣裾也给卷到帆里去了，所以大家就都挂在那上面，在咆哮的大风里给紧紧地勒住了，成为一切喝得烂醉的水手的一个足资警戒的榜样。

However, the masts did not go overboard; and by and by we scrambled⁷ down, so sober, that we had to pass the flip again, 好在桅杆还没有给翻折到海里去；所以，慢慢地我们就爬下来了，神志清醒得又非去再喝一顿不可，

though the savage⁸ salt spray bursting down the forecastle scuttle⁹, rather too much diluted¹⁰ and pickled it for my taste. 虽然狂涛噼噼啪啪地泼进了船头楼的舷窗，尝起来味道未免非常淡，又有点咸滋滋的味儿。

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